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This is just bizarre. How on earth can he pay what he does not have . How does it help society by throwing him in jail with murderers and rapists?

lostand confused says

This is just bizarre. How on earth can he pay what he does not have .

Thank the Bradley Amendment for that one (1986).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Amendment

zzyzzx says

The former Citadel Investment Group Inc. portfolio manager, who once earned $1 million a year, has been jailed for missing court-ordered payments at least eight times in the past two years as he coped with the end of his 17-year marriage.

The start of this sentence was so promising.
Then the end made me feel sorry for him.

I read this last night. Very sad how the justice system works in certain states. Why didn't he just leave that state? I don't get it. The long arm of the "state" law isn't really that long at all. I also think he could have stopped paying so much and moved elsewhere when he got laid off.
Supporting your kids is one thing. Supporting your ex wife another. Get a job woman!

That said, I think the real reason reform is now happening with these unjust laws is because they are impacting women in significant numbers. My sister was ordered to pay her ex husband alimony for a while ... That almost certainly went towards his ganja habit.

zzyzzx says

I would have stopped paying earlier, while I still had some money, and used it to relocate overseas. I think he is a moron for paying as long as he did.

He was waiting it out for the booming recovery that never was!

zzyzzx says

I would have stopped paying earlier, while I still had some money, and used it to relocate overseas.

There are probably ways to collect debts in most civilized countries, and so probably this as well.
Maybe he could take what he could carry, change his name and move to a third world country.

zzyzzx says

I would have stopped paying earlier, while I still had some money, and used it to relocate overseas. I think he is a moron for paying as long as he did.

The man has kids. It's quite possible that he thought he might be able to get another job and continue with the payments. Ditching the country would leave him severed from his kids for the rest of their childhoods. I believe he gambled out of love for his children and lost.

Not sure about the alimony laws in the rest of the country but in NJ they are a joke. The guy next door to my parents got divorced. Wife got the McMansion and a hefty alimony payment (75k a year) plus child support for 4 kids. 3 months after he moved out, new boyfriend moves in and has been there for 4 years. There's no financial incentive for them to marry as they continue to bleed this guy dry.

There was another guy I knew that divorced about 40 years ago. He's 88 and still paying alimony. He's dead broke and his social security doesn't even cover the alimony. His son tried taking it to court for him and they put them through the ringer refusing to modify the obligations because they couldn't produce his tax return from 1971.

Quigley says

The long arm of the "state" law isn't really that long at all.

I'm not a lawyer, but I am almost certain....

Where the children reside determines which state laws apply. He can't expect protection simply by moving to another state. Moving wouldn't help him with alimony, either, as long as the ex-spouse stays in the state that the order was initially decreed. In other words, only if both parties move out of that state would another state's laws be applicable.

I'm from the ghetto, knocked up 14 women and haven't paid a dime for it. The key is to not work and let the community pay for it.

I thought that the bailout included banksters' alimony payments and personal bad debts, even gambling, so that they could get back to the job of performing heroic and helpful deeds for our country and our economy.

Husband = House bound.