"alimony by" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to indicate the party responsible for paying or receiving alimony in a divorce or separation agreement. Example: "John was ordered to pay alimony by the court after his divorce from Sarah."
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Alimony, by contrast, will be calculated to compensate the spouse for foregoing a career, to rehabilitate her to support herself going forward, and/or to facilitate the maintenance of a certain lifestyle.
Florida joins a grass-roots movement in a growing number of states that seeks to rewrite alimony laws by curbing lifelong alimony and alleviating the financial distress that some payers — still mostly men — say they face.
I did my utmost as a single working mother to provide for my family without alimony -- by choice.
The judge reduced the amount of back alimony owed by the man involved in the case from $10,000 to just $300.
Prose suggests that "every historical period recreates the muse in its image," but no one is likely to produce a text inspired by alimony payments or Prozac that rivals this one.
The album isn't humorless; she shares "Give It Back," a demand for alimony, with raps by the Big Tymers, whose Mannie Fresh insists, "Call your lawyer back, baby, I was just playin'".
Wealthy spouses often go to extraordinary lengths to hide assets so they are not consumed by alimony payments, and accountants may have to pore over bank and real estate records to find them.
If certain rules are followed (it has to be in cash and it has to stop with the death of the recipient), alimony is deductible by the payer and taxable to the recipient.
Alimony laws vary by state and jurisdiction.
After a few years, Boris had been pushed to the edge of a financial precipice by Californian alimony laws and headed off to sell his wares in New Orleans.
