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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a crazed ex-wife who is rapid fire posting in this thread, I think. [/quote]

No, just familiar with family court regarding divorce and marital asset division.

There are some crazed second wives posting here who are sure their husbands were immorally tricked by their first wives. They are salivating over the possibility hubby gets a get out of jail free card and can stop paying wife #1.

If I were an ex-wife and my ex-husband wanted to terminate alimony payments in Florida, I’d definitely insist a forensic accountant examine all financial statements, bank accounts, business records, etc, my ex-husband and his salivating 2nd wife submitted to the court. Fun times. [/quote]

Are you the one who keeps insisting that alimony happens because somehow the ex-wife didn’t get half the marital estate originally? Because if you are, you are clearly not in fact familiar with family court and marital asset division.

Also, you can “insist” on whatever you like, but that doesn’t mean a judge is going to grant it. You stamping your foot making demands is not the same as a court order.

I’m in a happy long-standing first marriage, FWIW. Maybe that’s why I am more neutral in this. I think the PPs who are likening removal of permanent alimony to abortion rights are completely and totally insane, and sound profoundly entitled. [/quote]

Yes, increased and/or lifelong alimony payments can happen because the wife agreed to less marital asset division. The divorcing couple can agree to virtually anything that they wish, that falls within state guidelines.

Most of the  Florida women interviewed regarding their divorce settlements stated that is why they are so upset about this decision. They gave up property or assets for lifelong alimony payments.

A judge will not stop alimony payments to those women unless they receive an equal amount of compensation from the marital estate. Stopped alimony under those circumstances would be immoral.[/quote]

Well, we can’t say what a judge will do for sure in any individual situation, can we? It will be fact-dependent and judge-dependent. And what you are describing is not the norm in most marital asset division, which you should know if you are as familiar with family court as you claim to be. It doesn’t make sense for a punitive
and out-of-date legal policy to remain in place to account for a small number of outside-the-norm martial estate settlements.

As you say, if the women truly did not receive an even share of the marital estate and took alimony instead of their fair share (which argues that they had bad counsel, but I digress), they can respond in court to any petition to reduce alimony and the court will consider the totality of the circumstances. But I suspect the people advocating against this change are largely not in that highly unusual circumstance. [/quote]

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