alimony obligation

Alimony obligations are not discharged as a result of the obligee filing bankruptcy.

An increase in Mrs. Packwood's income would have reduced the Senator's alimony obligation.

Mason spent some time in the Ludlow Street Jail in 1902 after Marion convinced a judge he was not meeting his alimony obligations.

One who allows his or her alimony obligations to go into arrears, where there is an ability to pay, may be found in contempt of court and be sent to jail.

Milt Barlow would later spend much of the year 1887 as a guest of New York's Ludlow Street Jail after a judge charged him with contempt of court for failing to make his alimony obligations.

The state of Alabama had adopted a statutory scheme that imposed alimony obligations on husbands but not on wives for the stated purpose of addressing the economic disparity between men and women by providing support for needy women after divorce.

They have held that while one cannot escape alimony obligations, child support or mortgages by filing bankruptcy, court-imposed attachments to property are different: under the Federal Bankruptcy Code they are discharged, or, in the legal terminology, "avoided," by bankruptcy.

In 1990, Mr. Lunding, who was then living in Connecticut and earning 48 percent of his income from his New York law practice, tried to deduct 48 percent of his alimony obligation from his New York income tax.

Since then, the inquiry has expanded to include accusations that the Senator tried to intimidate his accusers into silence, and to include suggestions that he sought a job for his wife to increase her income when they were getting the divorce so that Senator's alimony obligations would be reduced.