Based on your reading of this chapter, do you believe that a former spouse who is ordered to pay alimony should be allowed to modify or terminate said order when he or she has voluntarily left their place of employment or has been discharged due to wrongdoing on the job?
What will be an ideal response?
Although it would be contrary to the “ability to pay” half of the alimony equation, it is possible that some payors so resent an award of alimony that they would “cut off their nose to spite their face,” and choose to live on less rather than pay more. There will also be issues of masking income, so that it only appears to be less than before. But one consideration must be an intentional flaunting of a court order. The discharge due to wrongdoing is just an extension of the same issues – choosing to perform acts that would cost the payor his or her job is a choice, and the court might determine that it is voluntary (If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime), and not good cause for a modification, which is based on circumstances beyond one’s control
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