any chance for the husband to receive alimony...

[Dancing Fire]

from his ex wife? do you know any guys who took his wife to the cleaners?

 

[ForteKitty]

nick lachey

 

[Jennifer W]

It depends where you live. Here, the assets of the marriage including heritable property, moveable property and pensions are split between the parties. If a woman earns more, has a larger pension fund or more savings than her husband, then he will receive some of that. Continuing payments of alimony are very rare - assets are divided and parties' positions 'equalised' but it's unlikely that either partner will receive alimony payments in the long term, as divorce is intended to be a clean and complete break from the obligations of the marriage. (Child maintenance payments are different to alimony.)

ETA you don't really have the option of taking anyone to the cleaners. There's a specific legal right to an equitable division of assets - you can claim that right or not, but you can't have more that it would allow.

 

[Trekkie]

Yes. My aunt is a nurse and supported her layabout husband for 14 years of marriage. When they met he claimed to be a contractor whose business was going through a slump. She grew tired of his bs and filed for divorce.

When they got divorced, he claimed that he was a stay-at-home father who gave up a successful career at her insistence and stayed at home to look after their children (two from her first marriage, one from his first marriage and the one they had together). He ended up with a (fully paid for) house and a brand new truck. Luckily she didn't have to pay alimony!

Moral of the story?

PRE-NUP!

 

[Tacori E-ring]

Yes Forte, Nick Lachey is a great example. Haha. Funny thing is HE wanted a prenup (was more successful than Jessica) but her father refused.

 

[lulu]

It's really hard to "take someone to the cleaners", but people do so many spiteful things during a divorce and end up hurting themselves.
I had a case with a rather well known artist. When the marriage went south and husband took off with the mistress wife began selling paintings for $10 and $15.

I only had a handful of cases in 30 years where wives ended up paying alimony. Wives ordered to pay child support are,in my experience, very resentful and noncompliant.