N.J.: “Is jailed former portfolio manager a poster child for alimony reform?”

Modern-day debtors’ prison, or a problem of his own making? “Those behind the state’s alimony reform movement say it should be easier for individuals to show that they can’t afford to pay court-ordered alimony and harder to jail a former spouse for failing to do so.” [ABA Journal]

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  • No one should ever be jailed for failure to pay alimony; it’s not a crime. Other remedies are available.

  • “It is a crime.”

    – Those Law Books