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 Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 6:02 pm Post subject: New Alimony article in the Boston Globe today |
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This article just appeared in the Boston Globe, 7-18-2010.
If you read the article and have an opinion to offer don't hesitate to post a comment at the end of the article. Every comment helps to publicize our issues and keeps the newspapers interested in covering them.
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Years and marriages later, they still pay
By Bella English
Globe Staff / July 18, 2010
Steve Niro got married in 1981 at age 23 and divorced less than five years later. At the time of the divorce, he and his wife were in their late 20s, and both were working. Niro remarried nearly 15 years ago, but he’s still paying his alimony.
Two years ago, Niro’s youngest son graduated from college, ending child support payments and leaving his former wife with alimony of $65 a week. “The next thing I know, I get summonsed to court for alimony adjustment,’’ he says. A probate court judge increased the alimony to $700 a week even though the couple had divorced nearly a quarter of a century ago — five times longer than they were married.
“I paid child support. I paid college. I was never late. I fulfilled my obligations,’’ says Niro, 52, a Milford native who works for an environmental engineering firm in Portland, Maine. “I just have to hope that legislators in Massachusetts have enough sense to pass a law that puts guidelines on alimony because the courts don’t exercise any common sense or logic.’’........................................... click link below for full article |
http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/family/articles/2010/07/18/years_and_marriages_later_former_spouses_still_owe_alimony/
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Here is a nice surprise; The Boston Globe followed that Sunday piece with a followup piece the next day  This is from Monday, 7-19-10.
| Quote: | Reform the reformer
By Adrian Walker
Globe Columnist / July 19, 2010
With Cynthia Stone Creem in charge of fixing alimony in Massachusetts, is it any surprise that it remains a mess?
Creem, a six-term senator from Newton, works in the State House when she isn’t pursuing her real career, which happens to be practicing divorce law. And she has never really thought there is all that much wrong with the state’s wildly arbitrary divorce laws. Most of the bar thinks things are fine just the way they are.
A fine piece by Bella English in the Globe yesterday refuted the idea that the system works. It highlighted the growing movement — which lawmakers would like to ignore — to reform the system, showing it through the eyes of several men and women who believe they have been forced to pay unfairly, and make strong cases to that effect..................................
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http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/07/19/reform_the_reformer/
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Wow, it's pretty hard to read the story of Steve Niro and wonder what kind of mental process leads anybody to conclude he owes his wife ANYTHING at this point in time.
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This series in the Boston Globe has sparked a micro brew-ha-ha in a local publication. It seems state Senator Creem has a political rival who is demanding she recuse herself from the consideration of this alimony-reform measure.
Allegedly she is a partner in a law firm that does at least some divorce work.
Given that Senator Creem submitted a competing, and much watered-down version of an alimony-reform bill, the charge of bias in this matter may have some credence.
| Quote: | Rudnick calls for Creem to recuse herself
Posted on July 19, 2010 by Gail Spector
Charles Rudnick, Democratic candidate for the state senate seat currently held by Cynthia Creem, released the following statement today calling for Sen. Creem to recuse herself from legislation relating to divorce law:............click link below for full story |
http://blogs.wickedlocal.com/newton/2010/07/19/rudnick-calls-for-creem-to-recuse-herself/#comment-56711
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The Boston Globe continued its coverage with this editorial July 25:
| Quote: | Alimony system needs reform, but Legislature drags its feet
Boston Globe Editorial
July 25, 2010
THE ANTIQUATED alimony system in Massachusetts reflects a bygone time when people tended to marry young, women stayed home with few prospects for work, and life expectancies were shorter. Family dynamics have since changed, but alimony has not. For many, it has become a lifetime entitlement, and tales of abuse are rampant, as the Globe reported last Sunday. Second spouses’ income is effectively garnished. People receive alimony checks for far longer than their marriages lasted, and have an incentive not to remarry or work. Cases drag on for years, racking up hefty legal fees............................... |
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2010/07/25/alimony_system_needs_reform_but_legislature_drags_its_feet/
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