Domestic Partnership Man Refuse Alimony

[BJean 16]

I agree! As we all know, courts awarded alimony for many years when the husband in the divorce "strayed", and it was used as punishment for him making a mockery of his wedding vows and also because he had broken one of the Ten Commandments.

When I was contemplating divorce in Arizona, I discovered that it was a no-fault divorce state which meant that we split everything 50-50 that was accumulated during the marriage. Rarely was alimony part of the deal unless as someone posted earlier, one of the spouses sacrificed her/his career for the other.

The court did not want to hear any arguments about who did this or that during the marriage. If one person in a marriage wanted a divorce, it could be obtained. If the couple could not agree on the division of property, everything had to be sold and the proceeds divided equally. Quite an incentive for couples to work things out without doing it in a court room.