The phrase "an alimony" is not correct in written English.
The term "alimony" is an uncountable noun, so it should not be preceded by "an."
Example: "After their divorce, she was awarded alimony to support her living expenses."
Alternatives: "spousal support" or "maintenance payment."
I got two kids and an alimony payment".
Signs of an alimony check that never came.
Connecticut lawmakers are drafting an alimony bill, with hearings expected in the next month, lobbyists say.
Finances can swing wildly, creating an alimony boon or a bombshell should one partner eventually want a divorce.
The court commissioner, Scott Gordon, signed orders for dissolution of marriage, an alimony agreement and child custody.
And she has been involved in an alimony fight with Yeslam, who, she says, pays her less than the monthly salary of his private pilot.
Cohabitation is the term used to describe a scenario whereby an alimony-receiving ex-spouse is living with a member of the opposite sex "in the manner of husband and wife, mutually assuming those rights and duties usually attendant upon the marriage relationship".
During her two-week trial, some of the most damaging testimony showed that Ms. Bembenek, who married Detective Schultz four months before the killing (they later divorced), had bitterly complained about the $700-a-month alimony he was paying his former wife.
He was a cad, a deadbeat (unpaid alimony), an opportunist and a sometime accumulator of vast ill-gotten wealth.
She often regretted that she had divorced her husband, yet, here she was, living in a hotel, a nice alimony check the first of every month.
His wife had filed a case demanding a huge alimony, citing her inability to work as she was paralysed from the waist down and needed the money to take care of her kids.
