My ex- wanted alimony. My lawyer, a very wise man, said “Child support is correct and the right thing to do – you pay it, the children grow up, it ends. However, alimony is forever.” We fought hard and in this state, we were able to prove misdeeds by my then wife, and I was able to avoid paying alimony. I would still be paying it to this day, as she has not remarried.
It cost me forty thousand dollars to fight that legal battle, adn the irony is that I would have agreed to a transitional period of alimony, had the shrew been willing to negotiate like an adult. She wasn’t, lost her case, we lost the house, all of our financial assets, and most painful of all, my children lost their way. That is the true damage done by a protracted lawsuit over alimony.
