Originally Posted by
Refiner 
You've been divorced 5 years, you're now remarried, and you still have to PAY HIM 45% of your income because he chooses to be a useless drunk? Please dear God I hope I read that wrong!!
That's almost right. I started the divorce process five years ago, it has been final for a little over three years.
The court would have mandated 3 years alimony, renewable but I agreed to 5 years, non-renewable to make sure that he couldn't renew it forever. (Thank God!)
I have two more years of alimony but will pay a good chunk of my after-tax income on child support. Even that amount would be enough for him to be able to live on, if he was smart about it (which he won't be).