The dirty truth: Why you are ordered to pay alimony.

"Alimony, as it currently exists in all state law books is NOT about men versus women. It is about generating revenue for the states and here is how. By the states legislating loosely written alimony guidelines it allows the judge (remember there is no jury here, which is a violation of the 7th Amendment to the US Constitution), unbridled digression. If you are the unfortunate person ordered to pay permanent alimony at a ridiculously high rate and you can’t, you are held in contempt of court and are sentenced to jail. This is NOT a crime. But people go to jail, so that the state can collect $140 per day for each person incarcerated. The state gets the money from the Feds.
In addition, under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act, section 454, the feds reimburse the state for 2/3 the cost of processing and enforcing alimony payments.
So why are we talking here about the gender bias issue? The fact is that it is too easy to get a divorce in this country and the entire alimony scheme is nothing more than the state and the state Bar’s an opportunity to cash in on an unfortunate situation called divorce."

I read the above comment that was posted to a great blog at the Wall Street Journal. I knew that Title IV-D was the social security act that allowed states to get compensated for billing you for child support, but I had no clue that the State got Federal reimbursement for billing you for alimony payments.

If you can get past all the legalese take a read. The guvment puts it out there for the whole world to read. If you can read sections 454, 454a, 454b, and section 455. Section 454a/b lays the foundation, but in section 455 you read how the states are compensated for 2/3rds of any expenditures for the collection of Alimony (and child support). It's like a huge cash cow! And if nothing else this is documented proof that the states have a vested interested in splitting up families and ordering the largest amount of child support and alimony they can.

Sounds a little drastic, but the only way to achieve a divorce settlement with a huge child support/Alimony order is to create a "non-custodial parent." Shared parenting doesn't work because most households are two-income and if you create a 50/50 custody plan, little to no child support could be ordered.

For guys on the brink of divorce, you're stuck. To you non-married guys, you need to take notice and be aware of the trick-bag that the state is setting you up for.