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I can only speak to my reality, which is that I am paying $40k/year to someone who never had kids, never tried to better themselves, and who quit their low-skil
by 01100011 5y ago
I can only speak to my reality, which is that I am paying $40k/year to someone who never had kids, never tried to better themselves, and who quit their low-skilled job to pursue an endless series of expensive hobby jobs(purse making, painting, selling weed edibles).
I can try to reduce my payments, but lawyers say there's a risk they'll actually go up because I'm making more now(because I couldn't afford to live in my old town due to alimony). The other party has an inactive form of cancer, but the primary tumor was removed over 30 years ago while I was still in junior high school, and a vocational evaluation , which consulted with their doctors, found there is no reason not to work full time.
I've been paying for over 5 years now and there's no end in sight. The system is forcing me to pay a lazy person to sit at home all day long without any obligation to work.
- GoOnThenDoTell 5y agoI’m curious about what circumstances stop payments to them? Does it require you to have zero income?
- 01100011 5y agoId have to have a valid excuse for not working, like a medical condition. If the other party remarries I'm free, but I don't think anyone else is dumb enough to marry them.
- throwawayarnty 5y agoSeems like a huge risk to marry someone when there is a big discrepancy in income and assets…
- oblio 5y ago> never tried to better themselves, and who quit their low-skilled job to pursue an endless series of expensive hobby jobs(purse making, painting, selling weed edibles) I'd say this was the bigger risk. But as with everything, it's always hard to say for sure from a distance.
- dTal 5y agoIt's a huge risk because the system makes it a huge risk, that's exactly the point under discussion. An unseen negative effect of alimony laws is that wealthy people are less likely to marry "beneath their station", which promotes and entrenches social inequality.
- sokoloff 5y agoAlimony laws affect the lifestyles of the middle income earners, not the wealthy (who have ready access to legal advice). I doubt alimony is a significant contribution to assortive mating among the then-wealthy.
- throwawayarnty 5y agoI heard the actor Brendan Fraser got completely screwed by the alimony system. He was ordered to pay 50k a month (900k a year) for 10 years. Not even many wealthy would be able to handle that type of alimony.
- yawaworht1978 5y agoIs leaving the country an option? And what do you mean no end in sight? Child alimentation stops at certain places after some age threshold is reached, certainly there must be a limit. If your salary is 80gross or net and you pay half , do the math what you'd get in another country and leave if it makes sense. If you make much more than that, I would suck it up.
- csomar 5y ago> Child alimentation stops at certain places after some age threshold is reached I think they don't have any kids. So the alimony is going fully to his ex? (what he is complaining about).
- 01100011 5y agoYes I've considered leaving many times. I only have alimony, not child support(no kids), so failing to pay isn't serious enough to revoke my passport. Depending on how things work out, I may have to retire overseas.
- djohnston 5y agoHave you thought about leaving the country? Plenty of cheap CoL places around the world to hang for awhile