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alimony

/al-uh-moh-nee/US // ˈæl əˌmoʊ ni //UK // (ˈælɪmənɪ) //

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Law. an allowance paid to a person by that person's spouse or former spouse for maintenance, granted by a court upon a legal separation or a divorce or while action is pending.
    • : supply of the means of living; maintenance.

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Examples

  • Some want to retain Social Security benefits or alimony from a former spouse.

  • Use this form for any income that isn’t subject to withholding, like earnings from self-employment, rent paid to you and alimony.

  • More specifically, she is using his death as a rallying cry for alimony reform and raising the question: Is alimony anti-feminist?

  • Today, New Jersey, Oregon, Vermont, Connecticut, North Carolina, West Virginia, and Florida all have lifetime alimony statutes.

  • “I am a fan of alimony reform and I am a fan of the law Massachusetts passed in 2011,” Wood told me.

  • And today, the critics of lifetime alimony are not just husbands and their new wives.

  • In the last three decades, courts have begun to apply gender parity to the awarding of alimony.

  • In Ireland the mother is not allowed to claim alimony herself—she must go into the workhouse and the guardians must sue for her.

  • Until he had met Rue Carew he had taken measures to fight the statutory charges, hoping to involve Venem and escape alimony.

  • In a recent suit for alimony a wealthy New Yorker complained that his wife used a diamond-studded watch for a golf tee.

  • Nothing in the nature of alimony, except the dwelling, is commonly given by either party to a divorce.

  • The lady's lawyer thereupon moved for the appointment of a referee, as well as for counsel fee and alimony.