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WGBH Chanel 2 "According to the U.S. Census Bureau, men accounted for 97% of alimony-payers last year. While alimony was originally intended to support moms who sacrificed career for family, critics say it creates a culture of dependency. Two bills in the Massachusetts legislature are aimed at reforming the state's alimony laws." |
WBZ TV4 A divorce doesn't mean anything is final. In Massachusetts you could be forced to pay alimony for life. |
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Fox TV News 25 In Massachusetts, things work differently. One ex may be required to keep the other in the lifestyle they were accustomed to during the marriage forever, regardless of who ended it. |
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NECN Cable News The Boston Bar Association has thrown its support behind one of two competing alimony reform bills, sparking controversy in the process. |
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NECN Cable News Alimony payments can go on for a long time in Massachusetts. Current law doesn't cap the duration of alimony awards. Now there's not one, but two proposed bills to change that.. |
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Oral Arguments Before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial court The MA Supreme Judicial Court heard Briefs on whether an alimony payer may retire and end alimony payments. |
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Fox TV News 25 At the Norfolk County Jail, he was inmate 35634. Foxboro business owner Jim Foley spent two weeks behind bars. His crime was failure to pay his ex-wife $8,500 in spousal support. |
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Fox TV News 25 The poster child for progressive marriage laws, Massachusetts is also a singularly nightmarish place to get a divorce—especially for the better-off spouse. |
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You Tube A man whose only crime is that he is divorced is now serving 90 days in jail because he is UNABLE to pay unreasonable alimony demands by the Massachusetts probate court. |
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You Tube Two women discuss their financial and marital situations, while revealing how alimony is like a winning lotto ticket. |
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You Tube The financial dangers of being a second wife -- court orders to pay alimony to the first wife. |
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You Tube In divorces, alimony is unlike child support in that it is generally up to the discretion of the court. |
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You Tube Jane Heller, author of the novel, AN EX TO GRIND, fills in James Michael Tyler on the latest twists in divorce, "bumbo" ex-husbands... |




December 2, 2009, WAQY Classic Rock Interview With Steve Hitner, President of Mass Alimony Reform by Bax and O'Brien on their morning show.
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