Friday, October 30, 2015

Oregon Alimony Reform Petition

If you are from Oregon please sign the MoveOn Petition for Alimony reform. The petition was started by  a woman whose husband has to pay crippling alimony to a previous spouse who does not need it.

In her own words
Please support HB 2559 HB 2495 which will create much-needed alimony (spousal support) reform in Oregon. My husband, and thousands of other payers like him, has been strangled by excessive alimony payments to a wealthy college-educated woman for ten years (despite a reduction in his income) with no end in sight. Modifications are terribly expensive to seek and difficult to obtain, even when a payer has lost his or her job. The economic downturn has created a system in which payers go bankrupt trying to support a former spouse, while that former spouse has no obligation to seek employment and suffers no income decline. Our bill would set guidelines for alimony awards, thus reducing expensive and heart-wrenching litigation, and would equalize the system to lessen the punishment suffered by income earners when a marriage fails.

2 comments:

  1. I can't find any information concerning this bill. It appears HB2559 refers to solar panels in condominiums per http://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2015/HB2559/

    What outcome happened to the original HB2559 bill that addresses alimony reform?

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    1. Thank you. You are correct. The bill is actually HB 2495. (fixed above) The source I copied from was wrong. The bill is still in "introduced in House" status and no vote has been taken. You can follow the process at: http://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2015/HB2495/

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