I just died!

Well that's pretty judgmental. Maybe she cheated or he got an unfair deal in the divorce.

No guest, that's epic!

Making the best of a shitty situation.

No. New wife's income doesn't count, at least in most states.

I know it doesn't in Oklahoma for child support anyway. Sucks because we really could have used the extra money when I was growing up. We were barely making it and my dad and his new sugar mama were blowing money on things they didn't even use.

OMG UR AN IDIOT SCRUB!!!!!!!!!11!1!1!1!11..... lolno on a serious note it's " is a legal obligation on a person to provide financial support to his or her spouse before or after marital separation or divorce."

So like child support for the ex? I don't think we have that in South Africa x_x I've literally never heard of it before

Absolutely agree. You shouldn't have to pay to take care of someone who was probably screwing the pool boy throughout your whole marriage.

Before, you only had to pay alimony if you got divorced because you just didn't want to live together anymore. But now, because of no fault laws, it doesn't matter if you were cheated on or not.

the idea behind it is good, but it is becoming obsolete as the notion that a woman stays home is becoming a thing of the past, and it is abused a fair bit. the real idea is that if say you are married for 20 years and you stayed home and cared for the children and have no job experience or learned ability to care for yourself, that you lost all that raising the family and became a dependent, and that the person who makes the real income only earned the ability to do that because of the person who kept the home in order, and thus part of that salary really does belong to the other party. i feel like when its used correctly its a right and proper thing, and i have no real idea if its abused as much as the media makes it seem, but it does at least appear to be misused a lot.