Florida Ballot Initiative for a
 Constitutional Amendment
to Abolish Alimony

"The original error [was in] establishing a judiciary independent of the nation, and which, from the citadel of the law, can turn its guns on those they were meant to defend, and control and fashion their proceedings to its own will."
--Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 1807. FE 9:68

BE IT  ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF FLORIDA THAT: 
ARTICLE I OF THE FLORIDA CONSTITUTION IS HEREBY AMENDED BY THE ADDITION OF THE FOLLOWING:

Every person whose marriage has been dissolved shall not be encumbered by any type of governmental intrusion in the form of an alimony obligation to the former spouse. This section shall not be construed to affect a person’s obligation to provide child support and maintain equal responsibility for minor children, or affect the equitable distribution of marital property. This amendment shall take effect upon passage by the voters and apply to all past, current, and future petitions for dissolution of marriage involving requests for alimony. 

The Citizens for Liberty and Privacy have a ballot initiative petition for the above amendment that if passed would free thousands of Floridians from the perpetual burden that they suffer and endure through the lifetime alimony statutes of Florida. 

Please sign our petition and send it to us.

Ballot Initiative Petition form - PDF
Ballot Initiative Petition form - Word document.

Volunteers are needed to help us gather petition signatures to get this amendment on the November ballot. If you can devote some time to helping us spread the word, please contact us at

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We have received many responses from individuals concerning class action against child support laws. Unfortunately, reformation of child support laws is not the focus of Citizens For Liberty And Privacy at this time. Our efforts are toward eliminating ALIMONY laws that ironically treat grown adults as if they are helpless children. While we disagree with the methods the government and courts use to collect and enforce child support laws and believe them to have weak constitutional footing, we support the concept of child support. Finally, we feel that efforts to combine these two issues by proponents is just another method to tighten the stranglehold by lawyers and judges of our personal lives by manipulating children.

For case filings and law on constitutionality of state alimony statutes click here..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Related Site Links

• Citizens For Liberty And Privacy

• Alliance For Freedom From Alimony, Inc.

• Abolish Alimony Org.: One man's fight to abolish "lifetime" alimony

• Alimony Central Org: The gateway to alimony and divorce information