Oh my goodness. The court system is exactly that... a racket.
It is nothing more than a money making scheme for the officials. We know first hand... because my husband, @beardo, was sentenced to pay LIFETIME alimony. It is endless and she doesn’t have to do anything to prove she needs it either. She either has to die or remarry for it to end... and for the last 15 years she has gotten 50% of his salary and 50% of any bonuses. No I’m not exaggerating. He took it to Supreme Court years ago and the judge wouldn’t hear the case because the verdict was “at the judges discretion” and he doesn’t overturn discretionary rulings. When there are no laws for or against alimony, the judge gets to decide.
So we worked with law makers locally and worked to get laws passed to fix that. We did get some passed but in the end they wouldn’t allow any language to be retroactive so it didn’t affect his case still. We are still trying.
She’s active, able, and could certainly work... and did work as a certified nurses aid up until the week of their divorce court. She is just vindictive and manipulative.
He is not an abusive, mean, controlling or angry man.. he is gentle kind and loving.
Our last court case landed him in a change of payment... instead of paying a percentage he can now pay a set amount per year and they also charged him of not paying the previous percentage correctly so they placed a judgement against him for $32,000 for claiming me and the kids on his taxes the last ten years. Apparently when you pay alimony, you can no longer get married and claim a family. So you’re stuck in the past, as an indentured servant... with no hope for a future.

@jeejee