Lifetime Alimony Massachusetts: Law Proposed To Cut Support Short

Lifetime Alimony In Massachusetts To End?

Steve Niro got married three decades ago but divorced less than five years later. He's been paying alimony ever since -- and there's no end in sight.

After Niro's youngest child graduated from college a few years ago, his child support ended and his remaining alimony payment was $65 a week. But his wife took him to court for a modification, and a judge agreed to increase the alimony to $700 a week, or $36,000 a year.

Niro's story is one of many expected to be heard by Massachusetts lawmakers this week as the legislature considers a bill to reform what critics call an antiquated law that allow judges to grant so-called "lifetime alimony."

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