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Man fighting to stop paying alimony to his ex-wife because she is now a man.

To pay or not to pay

Wednesday, October 4, 2006

This photo shows Lawrence Roach and his wife before their divorce, and before her sex change operation.

A Seminole man is fighting to stop alimony payments to his ex-wife because the woman is now a man.

Lawrence Roach says his ex-wife has had a sex change and is now living as a man with a new identity. Roach says he should be allowed discontinue $1,200 in monthly alimony payments.

"This isn't right. It's humiliating to me and degrading," Roach said. "You know, I'm a man and I don't want to be paying alimony to a man. If you can't be married to a man legally, how can you legally pay alimony to a man?"

Roach and his ex-wife, who Bay News 9 is not identifying, divorced 18 months ago after being married for more than 17 years. Roach said he should no longer have to make alimony payments because his ex-wife is no longer the person he married.

Bay News 9 legal analyst Joe Episcopo doubts that Roach will win his battle.

"His divorce decree is basically a contract that he has to follow," Viewer Center Poll

Episcopo said unless Roach's ex-wife remarries or one of them dies he's required by law to pay alimony for life.

http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2...not%20to%20pay

Actually, if you are married and your spouse gets gender-reassigned, your marriage is still legal afterward. I suppose you could say the same for the post-divorce whatnot.

That is funny and sad.

Unless there is an agreement that one partner doesn't work during the marriage, I think alimony should be abolished. Its bull. Women can get a job and work. I love these pampered prisses who demand alimony so they can 'live in the way they are accustomed'. Get a job!

for better or worst until death do you part...I guess
Life is a
Bitch who's now a Man

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Originally Posted by Sn@ke

lol, n00b.

tol = Thinking of Laughing.

I'm lightyears ahead of you on the new slang.

Are you gonna watch, tape, or tivo Law & Order tonight, Hayden?

Chevy Chase plays a Mel Gibson-composite in it...should be screwball.

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Originally Posted by atari 2600

Are you gonna watch, tape, or tivo Law & Order tonight, Hayden?

Chevy Chase plays a Mel Gibson-composite in it...should be screwball.

FUCK. I completely forget. I'll try to find it on the internets to download or something.

It's on later tonight. At nine (your) central time. I suppose I won't be watching NUMB3RS tonight, although some people are coming by soon, so I might have to tape it. I get high with a little help from my friends.

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Sonic me LOVES gay marriages.

Sonic Youth is illegally married to gay marriage.

My thoughts on the article? It's absurd.

I'm kind of torn on whether I think alimony is bullshit or justified.
It's unfair in many ways, why should the [ex]wife live comfortably with money she has not earned while the [ex]husband goes broke in PAYING said money.
..I've decided...

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Originally Posted by k-krack

It's unfair in many ways, why should the [ex]wife live comfortably with money she has not earned while the [ex]husband goes broke in PAYING said money.

That has more to do with the details of the divorce than with the new gender of his former wife.