Should Alimony Be Banned? - YouTube

about a century girl many states in the US establish permanent

alimony which means that if a couple splits up the man is responsible for

alimony payments for the rest

the woman's life and the reason why they did that was because back in the day

men and women had completely different roles in society the man would work the

woman but stayed home and she would raise the children and she was fine

financially dependent

on the man well now times have changed and

even though times have changed this typeof

law has changed in many states so recently Bloomberg wrote about a man by

the name of are

re: show shit and he's was married for about 17 years and he

split up with his wife however when he was in the relationship he was making a

million dollars working

in the financial industry he was doing really well

we split up it turned out that he had to pay alimony payments

that usually cost him about 70 8 thousand dollars a year

but then the economy went south all the sudden he's not making as much money

but he still required to pay the same amount of money in

alimony payments and also keep in mind he's a new jersey

and right now there are permitted

alimony laws on the books they're trying to reform that but that hasn't happened

yet

and it's definitely problematic because a lot of people are now

going in and out of jail as a result up these types of laws

in fact re: has been in jail eight times in the last two years because I've

contempt contempt contempt of court

because he has been able to pay the alimony payments so look

it child support now more near different child support somebody's gotta pay

a and you got kids this both your responsibilities you gotta figure out

how to chip in

and have it make sense alimony is your

in the words to the court they over offer use you're keeping our up

in the lifestyle she's become accustomed to but you're not in

self-exile anymore because you don't have a job so that's mental

so now look it depends on the circumstance or

is proper noun maury I right and some certain

is certain to say they absolutely right you've been married for

30 years thirty five years and you've been as you know a stay at home wife in

you raise the children

and at this point it's nearly impossible for you to go out there and make enough

money to make ends meet

ensure permanent alimony make sense if you've been married for like

5-10 years and you know the couple is still extremely young

and both parties can go out there and work in earn their own money

then no permanent alimony does not make sense at all times have changed women

can go out there and work they don't have to be financially dependent on a

man

let me just put throw some numbers behind and as example so

let's say you got married at 25 you had a 30-year marriage

and you know you had good a buncha kids in you one other people whether we wipe

resume decision

ask you for reals usually wife to raise the kids right

and they did not have a career because that let's see a panel

alimony for 10 whole years but she 65 at that point right

because you got the force at 55 to 65 in New York a good luck to you

which is supposed to start over that's nearly impossible right

so she in a little bit of a job but not the jobs you what I had

so in that case permanent alimony make sense

you got very for five years two years three years and you've got a pair of for

the rest of your life

even if you don't have the same job come on anybody can see that that's not just

this that doesn't make any sense

look why don't we have simple laws where we say we're good

decide the case base on this circumstance seriously

their way to make human judgments obviously so there are a number of

different

alimony reform bills that are being introduced in many different states and

they include different types alimony that I wanna make you guys know you're

with

one of them is known as rehabilitative alimony and that is to help an ex-spouse

become self-supporting so obviously it would be limited

to about five years %uh barring unforeseen events

there's reimbursement alimony so let's say you were married and wanted the

spouses

as supported the others education expecting to share the fruits of the

earning capacity created

that means that okay if you split up then the spouse the pay for the

education will pay you back

I and then also there's limited duration alimony and that that would be awarded

for no longer than half the length a marriage

of five years or less with higher percentages for those

approaching ten fifteen or twenty years for marriage is a twenty years or more

payments could

last indefinitely so this is all stuff that makes sense right

everyone deals with different circumstances had different

relationships

and as a result the judge should make decisions based on those circumstances

and I think what's important is a rebuttable presumption meaning like we

presume that it's gonna work in this way or that way

but it can be rebutted if we go to court and the judge listeners

okay it turns out in your case this

who rule doesn't make sense I V sees gotta have the

the capacity to make that decision and for christ sake I mean I don't know

anything about this guy

arianna be was a bad guy by the way I mean

his ex-wife must hate 'em you keep sending him to jail

I know a different times you said you know when you know he doesn't have the

money

a lot of these laws that revolve around

a child custody or alimony or child support

there's they're totally slanted in favor

love women right it to a point where it's its destructive for society I mean

it doesn't make sense

for the taxpayer to keep paying for the cost of incarcerating this guy because

the campaign is

you know his alimony payments its stupid you got to be smarter than that

he's not a criminal I don't know if he's a good guy or a bad guy but the one

thing that I do know

is permanent alimony does not make sense in the situation absolutely love look in

the old days

the bell so spiffy it tilted way too much in favor men

you basically say I'm getting divorce good luck to you yeah and women were

screwed I mean what you'd been

raising the kids as that you're told The Dude back in the day

you know how the world are you to support your son Lorenzo Mitt pet

pendulum swung in the other direction now is gotta like

rabbit put it right in the middle so it makes grab the pendulum put it in the

mail yeah I don't rinse idea