Marriage-is it really all about the money?

I’ve said to several people that in order for things to change in our culture, it has to affect WOMEN. Divorce, child support and alimony financially destroy men temporarily, but hurt women in the long run. Listen to the perspective of a woman who finally is seeing the light. D.I.V.O.R.C.E. spells disaster for too many…

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The Casualties Of Lifetime Alimony Payments

Ari Schochet has grown so accustomed to being sent to jail for missing alimony payments that he goes into a routine. Before his family-court hearing, Schochet, 41, sticks on a nicotine patch to cope with jailhouse smoking bans, sends an “Ari Off the Grid” e-mail to friends and family, and scrawls key phone numbers in…

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Goodbye darling, you’re just too dull

I’d be perfectly happy with women divorcing their husbands because they are bored only if those women who wanted out of that marriage got NOTHING, except what she came into it with. No child support, no children, no alimony and no house. That sounds like a good deal to me. Go ahead and find yourself!…

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Women have to pay alimony too

The De-Gendering of Divorce: Wives Pay Ex-Husbands Alimony Too By Liza Mundy Not long ago, after giving a talk about the growing number of women who are breadwinners in their marriages, I was approached by an audience member who identified herself as a lawyer. She said that she was definitely seeing this trend in her practice…

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