LAWSUIT ATTACKS ALIMONY LAWS!

This is from the CT Law Tribune: 

"Four plaintiffs have filed a complaint challenging the constitutionality of Connecticut's alimony laws on the grounds that they affect a "fundamental liberty interest in ending a marriage and in remarrying."

The plaintiffs, who filed their complaint anonymously and who were ordered to pay alimony as a result of their respective divorces in Middlesex, Hartford, Fairfield and Middletown counties, argue there are no standards to guide judges when granting alimony. The lawsuit claims alimony is an anachronism dating from when women's legal identities merged into their husbands' identities upon marriage."

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http://www.ctlawtribune.com/PubArticleCT.jsp?id=1202627142771&kw=Lawsuit%20Challenges%20Connecticut%20Alimony%20Laws&et=editorial&bu=Connecticut%20Law%20Tribune&cn=20131111&src=EMC-Email&pt=Connecticut%20Law%20Tribune%20Daily%20Briefing#ixzz2kMbie8hc

For what it is worth, here is one woman's response to this lawsuit.  See below:

I was a wife ordered to pay attorney fees. My former husband, who earned 85 percent of the household income, did not pay any of my fees.

Also, marriage is a legal contract. Those whining men aren't thinking about the ability their former wives gave them to facilitate their earning potentials while they provided emotional support, cared for the home and children, hosted events, gone to events to convey their husbands' appearance of model citizenship and that he conforms to cultural and societal expectations. Perhaps during that time, these wives put off their own professional and educational goals to facilitate the husbands' careers? Is this devalued as soon as the spousal relationship is over. I know a man who is a stay at home dad and does the above mentioned roles. No way could his wife have ever attained her status without his emotional, financial and later raising if the children and maintaining a home. As my crooked family law attorney no less crooked than all in it said to me when all the assets I had before marriage disappeared during it to support my former husbands educational and professional roles as well as kept him out if jail for back alimony and child support from the marriage prior to mine, "You can't redo your financial decisions you made in marriage." Whiners: this is what a pre-nup is for!