Divorce courts mirror society as more women pay alimony

NEW YORK, May 10 (Reuters) – Tables have turned in U.S. divorce courts with more women paying their former husbands alimony and child support than ever before, according to U.S.lawyers.

As women climb higher up the career ladder and outpace their
exes in salary, when love goes wrong and marriages break up they
are being compelled to contribute to the livelihood of their
former spouses.

And some are not happy about it.

More than half, 56 percent, of divorce lawyers across the
United States have seen an increase in mothers paying child
support in the last three years and 47 percent have noted a hike
in the number of women paying alimony, according to the American
Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.

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