Gene Healy on discovering the topic of family law: “Here was an interesting area of law; and by interesting, I mean insane. … what really woke me up was the concept of ‘imputed income’ for alimony and child support. That means, not your actual income, but what you could make if you were really giving it your all and living up to your potential.” Thus in a Virginia case, a divorced man subject to heavy support obligations knowingly switched to a lower-pressure, lower-paying job. “Tough, said the judge. You’re liable for what you could make, not what you actually make. And that’s the law. Guys, if you want that wonderful pulse-racing, chest-tightening feeling you get from the kind of bad dreams where you show up late for an exam you didn’t know you were scheduled for — then click this link to a California divorce lawyer’s page.” (“The Marriage Strike”, AFF Brainwash, Aug. 31)(& letter to the editor, Sept. 18).

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