Alimony

In “The Limits of Liberal Legalism: Marriage, Divorce, Pregnancy, and Abortion.” Alexis de Tocqueville thought that the American family was “haven of cooperation”. Women in those times didn’t fight for the same rights that men had. For years women that wanted to be independent were discriminated against and were denied jobs that were predominately done by men. During that time period there was no other way for a woman to survive without a man's help without being judged. Even though the woman's…

Before the 1970s, Nebraska had a fault based divorce system, which was the status quo of all states during the 1960s in the United States. The established fault based divorce law caused the legal court to be required to find fault in one party. However, the grounds to find fault in one party that could be legally considered for one to obtain a divorce were narrow. The grounds that could be possibly be used were desertion, cruelty, adultery, non-support, or ‘other’. Although, the grounds of…

● Percy Bysshe Shelley was born August 4, 1792, at Field Place. As the oldest of their seven children, Shelley left home at age of 10 to study at Syon House Academy. ● After two years, he enrolled at Eton College and began writing poetry. He was severely bullied, by his classmates. Within a year he had published two novels and two volumes of poetry. His first publication was a Gothic novel, Zastrozzi (1810) ● In 1811, While he was doing this he wrote a pamphlet with Thomas Jefferson Hogg…

Love" Mel is a cardiologist who has children with his divorced wife. He is not very fond of his ex‐wife due to the fact he must pay alimony to her while she lives with her new boyfriend and their children. While they are having drinks at a table outside he expresses he has two different hopes for her future. One is that she will get married so he no longer has to pay alimony that her and her current lover use to support their lifestyle. The other is that because she is highly allergic to…

qualified same-sex couple is earning higher than the other than both of them can file jointly for income tax returns. They can also get qualified for combine dental and medical expenses if they fall under the limits of adjusted gross income. In case of alimony, the same-sex spouse who would be paying the payments on his tax returns would be deductible while the other one receiving the payments would report them as income. For the legal same-sex couples, the assets can be transferred now from one…

In the article Preglimony, Shari Motro argues that the justice system or court system should develop a new framework to address the common relationship between individuals who conceive children out of wedlock. Motro feels like the current justice system is robbing women, she does not understand why a man who impregnates a woman has no obligation to help the woman he has impregnated with the costs related to the pregnancy until the baby is born. Our current laws only protect the baby and not the…

Philip St. Ives is the lead character of the Phillip St. Ives series of crime fiction novels by award winning American novelist Ross Thomas. The first novel to be published in the Phillip St. Ives series was The Brass Go-Between that came out in 1969. The highly popular series was made a pentalogy with the last title No Questions Asked that was published in 1976 marking the end of the series. The Philip St. Ives was one of Ross Thomas most critically acclaimed series and one of his bestselling…

statistics suggest, that the non-custodial parent is less likely to pay if visitation or custody is limited but over 90.2 % of child support owed was paid by fathers with joint custody of their children (U.S. Census Bureau report, "Child Support and Alimony: 1989, released Oct. 11,…

During the 1920s, vast changes and advancements were made in all spheres, from politics to economics to society. The changes from the First World War still affected the new post-war America. While the men we fighting Paton’s war across Europe, the women remained home and fought a war of their own: survival without a provider. For the first time in American history, nearly all women in the United States needed to provide for themselves and their children without their husbands or the government.…

has fallen on hard times. He has stopped writing and currently works in a PI agency. However, he spends the money he earns (with shady tactics) on gambling, and is constantly broke. His wife, Kyoko has divorced him, and since he does not pay his alimony, she does not let him see his son. In order to cope, he tries to earn money by pawning stuff from his parents' house, although his mother, Yoshiko, is on to him, as is everybody else. Furthermore, when he discovers that his wife is meeting…