"alimony for" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used when describing the purpose or reason for alimony payments. Example: The judge ordered John to pay alimony for five years to his ex-wife to help support her while she looked for a job.
The father is required to pay alimony for the next until the children grow up, or indefinitely.
"I refuse to pay alimony for those bastard developments," he said in a speech in London, in 1978.
Many European countries — including Scotland, which has a separate legal system — offer alimony for only a few years.
And after he had paid alimony for seven years, he said, "she phoned me up and said: 'Seven years is long enough.
There are ladylike attainments to which women still aspire, but in the '60s, McCarthy seemed to have no idea that that sphere would come to include law-partnerships, combat and alimony for men.
The statement, issued Wednesday, calls for other groups to protest the bill, which would give men the right to take additional wives without having to tell the current wives under certain conditions and would impose restrictions on alimony for women.
The Supreme Court's decision may correct some of those inequities — the division of retirement funds and tax deductions for alimony payments, for example.
A marriage of five years or less that ends in divorce, for example, could require alimony payments for up to half of the length of the marriage.
Men's rights activists have long complained of the ways that government policies penalize men – divorce and alimony laws, for example, or benefits designed for single mothers but not single fathers.
But some men, obviously, are OK with blending families or even starting new families, which is surprising considering how many men complain -- rightfully so -- about paying alimony (often for life) and child support, often for children they can barely see.
She says most often it is not the cost of the agreement ($2,000 to $5,000) that short-circuits the process, but the complicated questions that can arise over, say, alimony; compensation for a stay-at-home parent; and retirement accounts, which for same-sex couples cannot be divided without penalties and tax consequences.
