Alimony Articles

• American Legal Institute (ALI) positions on alimony: frequently cited in court opinion.
  • Compensatory Spousal Payments
  • Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution
  • Domestic Partnership:  Missing the Target
  • The Law of Marriage and the Family
  • The ALI Principles and the Economics of Family Dissolutions
• No Right to Alimony
• 11/17/04 - Lifetime Alimony Violates the 13th Amendment
• 05/06/04 - Federal Court Jurisdiction in the USA in Family Law Cases
• 03/12/03 - N.O.W. Against Government Involvement in Marriage Privacy Issues Cited.
• 2003 - ALIMONY: Peonage or involuntary servitude? by Alfred J. Sciarrino and Susan K. Duke
• 10/26/02 - 'Til Death Do Us Part - Effects of Divorce Laws on Suicide, Domestic Violence and Spousal Murder
   

Newspaper Articles

• 10/03/05 - The Hoax of Female Empowerment
• 09/23/04 - Friend's Jailing Endangers Woman's Second Chance - by Lyda Longa
• 09/16/04 - Miami billionaire to pay wife's lawyers $876,650, for now. - AP
• 02/09/04 -  Alimony Ordered for Gay Unmarried Couple in Washington State. 
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Gender Bias In The Courts

• 2005 - Marital Status Discrimination National Consensus
• Race and Gender Fairness in the Courts by State
• August, 1991 - Gender and Justice in the Courts by The Georgia Commission on Gender Equality. Abridged version.
  Comments on the article: Included are the sections of the Gender and Justice Report pertaining to alimony. You will note on page 32, Judiciary Recommendations 6 and 8 advocate faster alimony awards and the use of civil and criminal penalties for noncompliance. On page 31 of the Findings, item 5 states, "Because women historically are the ones who must seek alimony, they have been disproportionately affected by findings of fault." Hence, it can be surmised that men are paying the vast majority of alimony. All of my informal surveys among Family Law attorneys in GA indicate that men pay alimony about 99% of the time. I understand that your surveys have yielded similar results. Unfortunately, the actual statistics used to make the GA Supreme Court's "findings" and "recommendations" have been destroyed and therefore it is impossible to know exactly how they made their decisions. Because of this, it is felt that the Gender and Justice Report should be discarded, since it is without foundation and exacerbates rather than remedies gender bias in the courts.
• August, 1991 - Alimony and Equitable Distribution of Property in Georgia - A Report to the Supreme Court of Georgia by the Commission on Gender Bias in the Judicial System
• 1990 - The Report of the Florida Supreme Court Gender Bias Study Commission
• Gender Bias Topic Bibliography

 Personal Stories

• 11/30/02 - The Hidden Hardship in Family Law - by Mark A. Peterson

Miscellaneous

• 01/07/05 - Report To The Florida Legislative Delegation Concerning Permanent Alimony Statutes and The State of Family Law
• 03/20/02 - 2002 Religion and Public Life Survey (edited) (See question #7) - PEW Research Center Survey

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