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Orr, 440 U.S. 268 (1979), was a United States Supreme Court case that held that Alabama statutes that imposed alimony obligations on husbands but not on wives was an unconstitutional equal protection violation.
A recent Alabama law limits the time period for alimony to five years. That is, unless the judge finds that one spouse can’t become self-sufficient. Should that occur, alimony can last for as ...
Bailey v. Alabama, 219 U.S. 219 (1911), was a United States Supreme Court case that overturned the peonage laws of Alabama. [1]The Supreme Court considered the validity of the Alabama state court's ruling that Alabama statute (§ 4730 of the Code of Alabama of 1896, as amended in 1903 and 1907) was constitutional.
The term alimony comes from the Latin word alimonia ' nourishment, sustenance ', from alere ' to nourish '.Also derived from this word are the terms alimentary (of, or relating to food, nutrition, or digestion), and aliment (a Scots Law rule regarding sustenance to assure the wife's lodging, food, clothing, and other necessities after divorce).
Alimony is a court-ordered sum that one former spouse must pay to another due to a separation or divorce agreement. You might sometimes hear about spousal maintenance or spousal support, which are ...
The Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act (URESA), passed in 1950, concerns interstate cooperation in the collection of spousal and child support. [1] The law establishes procedures for enforcement in cases in which the person owing alimony or child support is in one state and the person to whom the support is owed is in another state (hence the word "reciprocal").
Accordingly, legislation would be required to change the law to implement McCulley's concept. One persuasive criticism of the current legal regime of child support in the United States is that it is only facially civil in nature and circumvents the procedural protections of the criminal law while still using criminal enforcement machinery. [4]
Alabama law-related lists (11 P) A. Alabama state courts (2 C, 5 P) C. Capital punishment in Alabama (2 C, 13 P) Alabama state case law (4 P) Courthouses in Alabama ...