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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Woman here and I agree that alimony is ridiculous. There's no reason any person on God's green earth shouldn't be able to support themselves once divorced.[/quote]

My ex BIL insisted that my sister quit her job when they got married.  She has only a HS diploma and was a receptionist; he has an MBA From an Ivy and his career in investment banking was just taking off.  The first 8 years of their marriage no kids. My sister spent a significant amount of time entertaining his business associates and holding down the fort while he’d be gone weeks at a time traveling internationally for work. The second 8 years they had two kids, both with autism, one of whom will probably never be able to live on own. In addition to continuing what she did the first 8 years, she spent/spends much her day taking their two kids to their various therapies. He had a long term affair and filed for divorce.  My sister damn well deserves and should get alimony. The most she can work is a few hours at pretty much a minimum wage job during the school day while the kids are at school and the weekends they’re with their dad. Meanwhile he now earns $5M a year, still travels a lot and has little time for his special needs kids.[/quote]

This is a situation where obviously she should get life long alimony. My husband's ex cheated on him, left him for the affair partner (moved out one day while he was at work cross-country taking the kids).  In her case, she should have gotten child support only as she made the choice to move to her boyfriend and let him support her (which he did by default not paying his child support and letting his kids suffer - his ex also had a SN child).  I think it really depends on the situation. [/quote]

Not really. This is a situation where obviously she should get temporary alimony so that she can go back to school, finish her degree, start a career that earns much more than her part time minimum wage job. Oh and ovbviously a good amount of child support, which reflects her having most of the custody. [/quote]
She had custody as she stole the kid.  She had no interest in school or bettering herself or allowing my husband to while married.  If he had to work crappy jobs while she had free time to cheat, then why should she be rewarded.

In pp situation she deserves it and more.  You clearly never have been cheated on and your family destroyed or you were the one cheating and didn’t care who you hurt.  This poster has SN kids   She could not work.  [/quote]. Don’t marry a man with baggage if it is going to cause you this much resentment—and you know you don’t know all of the ins and outs of their marriage.[/quote]

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