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Man sits in jail while unable to pay alimony that exceeds his income
Hunterdon County Democrat, by Lillian Shupe
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Posted By:Ribicon, 12/7/2012 12:21:35 PM
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| Flemington, N.J — For nearly seven weeks, John Waldorf has been in the county jail on a “non-support” charge for allegedly failing to pay alimony. He claims he is a victim of New Jersey’s "antiquated" alimony system and many people agree with him. In late October a small protest was held outside the courthouse.(Snip) Waldorf, who divorced his wife of 11 years in 2011, was ordered to pay $2,000 a week in alimony to his ex. That amounts to $104,000 a year. In addition he was ordered to pay $3,300 in child support. The problem is that Waldorf has only been
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Comments: Then again, he´s a man. Can´t they burn him at the stake or throw him in a bear pit?
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
jond, 12/7/2012 12:47:02 PM (No. 9053786)
Debtors´ Prison (as the article points out).
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
secondtimelucky, 12/7/2012 12:54:06 PM (No. 9053803)
if the facts in the case are correct and as the story is told in this article, how does the court expect this man to either address or remedy the situation from jail? On top of everything else, he is now unemployed because of the jailing. This is helpful how??
His alimony exceeds his income, he now has no income, his x-wife is apparently receiving some kind of assistance and the city/county/state/whoever is supporting him with 3 hots and a cot. Sounds to me like the judge overreacted or over punished (or both) and has now ensured that everyone in the family is being supported by taxpayers.
good move...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
wilarrbie, 12/7/2012 1:00:10 PM (No. 9053819)
There was a case several years ago where an Army soldier was held captive by the enemy for a long time. When he was finally released and he returned to US soil, he was promptly arrested for failure to make child support payments during that time. State of California I think. So there ya go - rules are rules.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Sfacheem, 12/7/2012 1:03:10 PM (No. 9053829)
This judge, Mawla, should be removed from the bench, disbarred and disgraced. He is an absolute abomination to the justice system and his obvious prejudice should prevent him from even hearing divorce cases. This is absolutely insane.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Nevadadad46, 12/7/2012 1:04:10 PM (No. 9053834)
This is what happens when Liberals are allowed to vote.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jackburton, 12/7/2012 1:26:32 PM (No. 9053884)
Obama could make payments of $104k for alimony and $40k for child support with a 90k take home.
Sheesh.
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skedaddle, 12/7/2012 1:27:42 PM (No. 9053886)
From nj.com - "Family Court Judge Hany Mawla first made headlines in 2010 when then-Gov. Jon S. Corzine made him the first Muslim-American appointed to state Superior Court."
I believe the "judge" is waging jihad against decent Americans or he´s so incredibly stupid he can´t do basic math or maybe a mix of both.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
veritas, 12/7/2012 1:34:15 PM (No. 9053900)
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." ~~ Groucho Marx
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jhpeters2, 12/7/2012 1:51:21 PM (No. 9053932)
Just asking. Is this a white gentleman? I just don´t wish to jump to conclusions. But if he is I would hazard a guess that 40 is the new 20 and whites are the new blacks. And nobody can add, subtract or multiply.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
LamontCranston, 12/7/2012 2:04:00 PM (No. 9053957)
As someone who was financially devastated by his divorce I really feel for this guy. My ex dragged me to court when I missed ONE payment and attached my wages to the point where I could not pay rent on my fleabag apartment for months. Even though my payments are now over I ended up so far in the hole that I am still looking at possible eviction and homelessness.
My ex? living comfortably in another state with her new husband who makes twice my income!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
comstock, 12/7/2012 2:47:48 PM (No. 9054026)
Why get married? Given the exalted status of "single moms" brought to us by the FemiNazis, and the confiscatory community property, alimony and child support rates any man who marries needs his head examined.
Sure she seems sweet and responsible and promises she´ll never drag you through the courts, but when she sees the rainbow over the horizon kiss goodbye to your income and assets, even if you´ve got a PreNup.
I´m sure there are women who don´t fit this profile, and congrats to the men who have found one, but they are getting few and far between.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Mike43, 12/7/2012 2:50:11 PM (No. 9054029)
I have two college educated sons with decent, in one case, spectacular jobs.
And their women friends wonder why they won´t commit to a long term relationship.
They insist on no cohabitation, either. The ladies think they´re old fashioned.
Naw; they´re aware and self-protective.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
hotrod, 12/7/2012 3:25:33 PM (No. 9054086)
My state, Florida, suspends driver´s licenses for men unable to pay on time or the amount, no matter what the reason. When the man can´t go to work, due to lack of transportation, he can´t pay either.
Now that women are equal and everything, the divorce and alimony laws need updating.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bumbleshorts, 12/7/2012 3:49:38 PM (No. 9054118)
I have been married twice. Don´t cry to me about this poor mans fate. He is in jail with criminals...he doesn´t have to live with his wife...he got off easy.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
SamuelSpade, 12/7/2012 3:50:03 PM (No. 9054119)
He doesn´t make much money Five thousand dollars per. Some judge who thinks he´s funny Says "You give six to her." The guy says, "Judge, what if I fail?" The judge says, "Bud, you´ll go to jail! "You´d better keep her. "My boy, it´s cheaper "Than makin´ whoopee." -Gus Kahn
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
4Justice, 12/7/2012 5:35:53 PM (No. 9054296)
I don´t know about NJ, but #3, in California, the soldier should have appealed the decision. I had a friend who was incarcerated years ago and when he got out was told he owed "child support" (which is worse than alimony). He appealed it and got a deal. Unfortunately, because the judge didn´t specify there would be no interest, they came after my friend decades later for interest on the original $2000 settlement. So far, he has paid them over $8K since but because he has had slow business and can´t find a job, he hasn´t been able to pay it all off and it keeps doubling interest on the interest on the interest. Oh well... Our government is way out of control. We need to clean it up from top to bottom. Will we ever?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
KimoSaavy, 12/7/2012 5:53:40 PM (No. 9054317)
Binding pre-nuptial agreements. Use protection. Pre-marital agreements prior to children. So much men and women can do before they marry to minimize the post break up pain. But lessons will need to be learned the hard way.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
redmom, 12/7/2012 7:39:33 PM (No. 9054423)
Well, this certainly explains the poll last week, that showed contrary to the past, more women than men want to get married.
And women are confused? If we, as women, are going to demand equality, that means supporting ourselves when a marriage doesn´t work, or living within our means, the same way we would have to if married.
The revenge mentality that has taken over our culture is a sure sign that as a country, we have a fatal disease.
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Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth. The vanishing trend is more than a decade old, but it accelerated during the Great Recession. Throughout 2012, economists held out hope that it had stopped. But then came Friday’s jobs report, and hopes were dashed. The Labor Department reported that the U.S. labor force — everyone who has a job or is looking for one — shrank
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The Obama White House is scrambling to blame Friday’s abysmal March jobs numbers on the sequester’s trimming of the rate of growth in federal budgets that have yet to fully commence. After the Labor Department announced that a mass exodus of 663,000 workers left the U.S. workforce last month and that job creation fell 112,000 jobs short of projections, Obama’s top economic adviser Alan B. Krueger, took to the White House blog to blame the sequester: It is important to bear in mind that the March household and payroll surveys are the first monthly surveys to look
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Susan Patton, the Princeton alumna who became famous for her letter urging Ivy League women to use their college years to find a mate, has been denounced as a traitor to feminism, to coeducation, to the university ideal. But really she’s something much more interesting: a traitor to her class. Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively —
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Broadcasters worry about ´Zero TV´ homes
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Associated Press, by Ryan Nakashima
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Posted By: Ribicon- 4/7/2013 2:43:40 PM
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Los Angeles — Some people have had it with TV. They´ve had enough of the 100-plus channel universe. They don´t like timing their lives around network show schedules. They´re tired of $100-plus monthly bills. A growing number of them have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV service, and don´t even use an antenna to get free signals over the air. (Snip) Last month, the Nielsen Co. started labeling people in this group "Zero TV" households, because they fall outside the traditional definition of a TV home. There are 5 million of these residences in the U.S., up from
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Beyonce, Jay-Z celebrate 5th anniversary in Havana, Cuba
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Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/6/2013 8:20:04 AM
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Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for
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