Finances: More Women Making More Money Means More Men Getting Spousal Support
By LENORE SKOMAL
It’s not rare anymore. In fact, in the last 30 years, like it or not, more and more women who end their marriages are stuck paying support to their ex-spouses — also known as “manimony.” “When I started practicing 30 years ago, I didn’t see it at all. Zero. And now I see it in about 10 percent of my cases – female clients having to pay their ex-husbands support,” said Lynne Gold-Bikin, 65, family law chair at WolfBlock LLP based in Morristown, Penn. “Part of the reason is the simple fact that over that period of time, more women are making more money. You wanted to be equal, well now you are. Women who pay spousal support are those who quite simply make more money than their husbands do.”
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