(n.) An allowance made to a wife out of her husband's estate or income for her support, upon her divorce or legal separation from him, or during a suit for the same.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because of this legal status insemination child or his parents cannot demand alimony from the sperm donor or the inseminator.
(2) Most men who divorce or separate are immediately better off because they retain most of their labor incomes, typically do not pay large amounts of alimony and child support to their ex-wives, and no longer have to provide for the level of needs associated with their former families.
(3) The ‘divorce’ bill Until recently, the size of the European alimony request was the subject of conjecture.
(4) Alimony and child support are the principal mechanisms for transfers from the ex-husband to the ex-wife, but payments are rarely frequent or sizeable enough to make up for an appreciable amount of the labor income lost through the departure of the ex-husband.
(5) Much of what we now know about Nancy is none of our business: the square footage of her house, the size of her alimony payments.
(6) Eighteen months later, after countless hours in police stations and waiting for judges who tried to duck the case, Lee won in court , the judge granting her a divorce and ordering her husband pay $1.9m in alimony and compensation.
(7) It had been an acrimonious split – and Brown ended up paying him £1.25m alimony.
(8) Three months later – even after all the warnings from the European leaders soon to be suing us for alimony, the anxiety from business associations and the repeated broadsides from financial markets – delusional thinking remains rife.
(9) In the case of a single woman, or a married women who decided on AID without the husband's consent, financial support should perhaps be offered by the Alimony Fund if the mother has insufficient means.
(10) Divorce under Islamic law also affects the wife's entitlement to alimony, custody of children, and who keeps the family house.
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Definition:
(n. pl.) Necessaries or supples; an allowance to a person out of an estate or other thing for support; as of wood to a tenant for life, etc., of sustenance to a man confined for felony of his estate, or alimony to a woman divorced out of her husband's estate.