alimony

[ US /ˈæɫəˌmoʊni/ ]
[ UK /ˈælɪməni/ ]
NOUN
  1. court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated
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How To Use alimony In A Sentence

  • In it, he informed me that George Grey had accepted my proposal of a once-off payment of $25,200 – on the condition that I would abnegate his word any further claims to alimony and/or other forms of financial maintenance. The Pursuit of Happiness
  • When a divorce lands in court, children should be insulated as much as possible from adult decisions like alimony and support payments.
  • Who cared now about Edwin, marriage, injustice, alimony, law: all that was another world. SPLITTING
  • If a spouse becomes self-supporting before the end of the court ordered support period the paying spouse can petition for the courts to terminate the alimony.
  • For instance, alimony also called spousal support or maintenance will be set according to your ability to meet your own needs--or pay for those of your spouse--after the court distributes whatever property you have between you. Divorce: Trust Fund Feuds
  • Brenda has been swindled out of her alimony by greedy, unscrupulous Morty, a discount electronics magnate.
  • This bill is about people using the bankruptcy system to evade paying alimony and child support payments.
  • In other words, if one of Susie's great-grandparents were black, Frank would be entitled to an annulment and relieved of his obligations to provide alimony or child support.
  • His parents were divorced and his family lived off of alimony and child support.
  • Former husband sought to terminate his alimony payments which were made pursuant to a separation agreement because his wife began cohabitating with another women, which he claimed ran afoul of the "concubinage" restriction in the agreement. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
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