How to Use alimony in a Sentence

alimony

noun
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  • Others haven’t weighed in, or else have quirky rules about, say, alimony.
    — Ben Steverman, Bloomberg.com, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Those that get alimony or child support from their ex-spouse or live with their parents are the lucky ones.
    — Yoshiaki Nohara, Bloomberg.com, 24 June 2018
  • Today, the person getting the alimony claims it as income and the payer gets to deduct it.
    — Kathleen Pender, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Nov. 2017
  • In a court filing late last month, Marty Hurney asked a judge to throw out the new alimony request from his wife of 23 years.
    — Michael Gordon, charlotteobserver, 7 Feb. 2018
  • The tool asks about wages and other sources of income, such as alimony and investments.
    — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The thought of paying him alimony stopped me from divorcing him.
    — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Renay will get $5,000 a month in alimony for three years, according to TMZ.
    — Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 6 Feb. 2023
  • In some states, alimony can be much higher than child support.
    — Ginger Gentile, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Assets would be transferred back to China, to avoid alimony; custody of Max would be fought for.
    — Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Part of the divorce process was to determine whether Naly would receive a form of alimony payments.
    — Keith Uhlig, USA TODAY, 8 May 2017
  • The real difference [in wealth] happens 10 years down the line, when alimony and child support end.
    — Kerri Anne Renzulli, Glamour, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Nicks reports that their mother, who’d grown up in Wales and married early, didn’t know how to write a check, let alone pay bills or seek alimony.
    — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 10 Aug. 2017
  • Continue taking the alimony to which you are entitled, and go on with your life.
    — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2024
  • And ex-spouses who receive alimony are no longer required to claim it as income.
    — CBS News, 17 Feb. 2020
  • When the Shores divorced two years later, Sammy gave her the club as a way of lowering his alimony payments.
    — Valerie J. Nelson, latimes.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Across the country, courts use the three higher-cost plans to determine things like alimony, child support and foster care stipends.
    — Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Oct. 2020
  • In the future, alimony would not be taxable or tax-deductible, putting it on the same footing as child support payments, Gale said.
    — Kathleen Pender, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Nov. 2017
  • The person paying the alimony, however, will no longer be able to deduct those payments from his or her income.
    — Stephen Koff, cleveland.com, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The drop is tied to a few things: the loss of cost-saving measures like splitting a mortgage bill; legal fees; and payments like alimony or child support.
    — Kerri Anne Renzulli, Glamour, 18 Jan. 2018
  • John Schneider served five hours out of his three-day jail sentence for unpaid alimony on Tuesday.
    — Sasha Savitsky, Fox News, 13 June 2018
  • If the women needed to change custody schedules or alimony, their former husbands would tell them to go to court.
    — New York Times, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The House plan would eliminate the tax deduction for alimony.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 3 Nov. 2017
  • In 2013, the mother of two of his children sued for outstanding alimony payments.
    — Adam Williams, Billboard, 10 July 2018
  • Wang was also awarded custody of their son and $300 per month in alimony, according to CNR.
    — Nectar Gan, CNN, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Another sign of a possible truce: A plan for a hearing about alimony that could have lasted two days has been dropped.
    — Katherine Skiba, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2017
  • Child support can't be taxed or deducted, but alimony would count as income for me.
    — Ellie Delano, Woman's Day, 26 Jan. 2011
  • While the House approved alimony changes, the controversial issue stalled in the Senate.
    — Jim Saunders, orlandosentinel.com, 3 May 2021
  • Needless to say, portions of it went to fund alimony payments to Jocelyn.
    — Alex Heigl, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2022
  • But conservatives only want to bring back fault divorce — not the alimony regime that existed with it.
    — Alison Lefkovitz / Made By History, TIME, 23 July 2024
  • In the divorce petition, Bonnie asked the court for a restraining order against Jim as well as alimony, child support, and custody of three-year-old Jimmy.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2024

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