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Originally Posted by woj
yea, I never understood alimony either :-/
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This is what was told to me about alimony. It is mainly given to someone (almost always a wife) that has been in a long term marriage (over 15 years) and has no immediate ability to get a job that they will be able to support themselves with.
For example if you are married for 18 years and you want your wife to be a stay at home mom or a housewife that doesn't work then you get divorced the court then says, "well, she spent the last 18 years outside of the job market so she will only be able to get a job that is minimum wage or close to, so we are giving her alimony/spousal support to help her out until she can take care of herself."
It is often stupid, but that is the idea behind it. It really is no different than a wife getting half of a business a guy built up while they were married even if she did nothing directly that helps grow the company.