What is "alimony"

Usage examples of "alimony".

Nevada, in the absence of acquiring jurisdiction over the wife, was held incapable of adjudicating the rights of the wife in the prior New York judgment awarding her alimony.

Nevada decree obtained by a husband, New York was held not to have denied full faith and credit to said decree when, subsequently thereto, it granted the wife a judgment for arrears in alimony founded upon a decree of separation previously awarded to her when both she and her husband were domiciled in New York.

Divorced a year ago, either the dear judge was worrying about alimony payments all night or he was trying to keep up with a new honey.

I might resist using blackmail to strike a better alimony deal, but when it came to the children, I would use it in a heartbeat.

She lived in a nice apartment, cashed her nice alimony checks, and was studying to be a real estate agent.

I happened to overhear a brace of her aunts remarking that yes, it was nauseating to think of the poor little thing and a dirty foreigner, but that as I was well-to-do, it would be a good first marriage and the resultant alimony would allow her to live well long enough to find a man of her own class.

In it, he was sitting at home in front of the television, trying to concentrate on the football game as his shrewish, dough-faced wife, dressed in a food-stained dressing gown, hectored him about his sleeping with Delia, the cute secretary from the steno pool, and how she was going to sue him for a divorce and collect a fat alimony, on which she was going to move to Mexico and enjoy the good life, and if that included a hot-blooded young Mexican with the stamina of a stallion, so much the better.

She searched her mind as to what he wanted and assumed that it was either to cut off her alimony or child support or to see Petey on the weekend.

He refused alimony or any support and warned me not to touch the bank accounts.

Oh, already the shifty lawyers were working on gouging him for alimony, while she dressed up in silky oriental dresses and had affairs.

Listen, I’m paying alimony to four healthy broads who can earn their own living.

On top of that, to help control costs since he was paying alimony, child support, and the mortgage on the house, the newlyweds briefly shared an apartment with a friend, Judy Zess.

Of course, they never mention that the alimony I pay each of them allows them to sit on their fashionably dressed derrières in a five-star restaurant for four hours and complain about me.

She obtained a divorce with alimony payments set at a reasonable levelthree-fourths of its highest recorded earning power.

In the personal effects compartment of his ejection seat was his map case and in that map case were several letters he had intended to mail-including the alimony check to his ex-wife which was already a week overdue.