Monday March 19 was a huge day for Connecticut’s alimony reform movement. Eleven people, many of them members of CTAR, testified movingly before the Joint Committee on the Judiciary, in Hartford, in favor of Raised Bill No. 5509. The day was very long – and stretched well into the night.
The committee did not vote on the bill yet; it has until April 2nd to do that. Between now then, we must contact committee members with our stories, especially where we are constituents, and we must get more alimony payers and their families involved in writing to legislators NOW. This is how a bill becomes a law: citizens take action.
A bill to reform alimony has been introduced in the Connecticut House, Raised Bill No. 5509. Hearings on this bill will be held on Monday March 19, in the Joint Committee on the Judiciary at 1pm. Go to our WRITE YOUR LEGISLATOR tab and follow instructions on contacting your two Connecticut legislators - your senator and your House representative to express your support for Raised Bill NO. 5509.
(CNN) -- My marriage ended in 1995 after 23 years. My two daughters were adults. I knew I would be required to pay alimony, split the assets and provide health insurance for a reasonable period of time. But a marriage that had been difficult for many years was finally over, or so I thought. I didn't know I was about to enter the twilight zone of alimony-without-end in Massachusetts.
(HP) - "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war?" Abraham Lincoln is said to have asked Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, published in 1849, was an instant bestseller and dramatized the horrors of slavery for all to see, years before the fighting began. The New Alimony Laws In MA -- And Maybe In FL, NJ, CT, And OR?
by Elizabeth Benedict.
First up: Who pays. Traditionally, ex-husbands are on the hook to pay alimony. Newt Gingrich, for example, paid $19,800 in alimony in 2010 to one of his ex-wives (his tax return didn't say which one.)
(NYT) - In the waning days of this year’s legislative session, Florida lawmakers and advocacy groups are pushing to overhaul the state’s alimony law in a bid to better reflect today’s marriages and make the system less burdensome for the alimony payer.
