How to Use alimony in a Sentence

alimony

noun

• Others haven’t weighed in, or else have quirky rules about, say, alimony.
  — Ben Steverman, Bloomberg.com, 28 Apr. 2017
• Those that get alimony or child support from their ex-spouse or live with their parents are the lucky ones.
  — Yoshiaki Nohara, Bloomberg.com, 24 June 2018
• Today, the person getting the alimony claims it as income and the payer gets to deduct it.
  — Kathleen Pender, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Nov. 2017
• In the divorce petition, Bonnie asked the court for a restraining order against Jim as well as alimony, child support, and custody of three-year-old Jimmy.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2024
• In a court filing late last month, Marty Hurney asked a judge to throw out the new alimony request from his wife of 23 years.
  — Michael Gordon, charlotteobserver, 7 Feb. 2018
• The tool asks about wages and other sources of income, such as alimony and investments.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2022
• The thought of paying him alimony stopped me from divorcing him.
  — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Apr. 2023
• Renay will get $5,000 a month in alimony for three years, according to TMZ.
  — Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 6 Feb. 2023
• In some states, alimony can be much higher than child support.
  — Ginger Gentile, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
• Assets would be transferred back to China, to avoid alimony; custody of Max would be fought for.
  — Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
• Part of the divorce process was to determine whether Naly would receive a form of alimony payments.
  — Keith Uhlig, USA TODAY, 8 May 2017
• The real difference [in wealth] happens 10 years down the line, when alimony and child support end.
  — Kerri Anne Renzulli, Glamour, 18 Jan. 2018
• Nicks reports that their mother, who’d grown up in Wales and married early, didn’t know how to write a check, let alone pay bills or seek alimony.
  — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 10 Aug. 2017
• Continue taking the alimony to which you are entitled, and go on with your life.
  — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2024
• And ex-spouses who receive alimony are no longer required to claim it as income.
  — CBS News, 17 Feb. 2020
• When the Shores divorced two years later, Sammy gave her the club as a way of lowering his alimony payments.
  — Valerie J. Nelson, latimes.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• Across the country, courts use the three higher-cost plans to determine things like alimony, child support and foster care stipends.
  — Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Oct. 2020
• In the future, alimony would not be taxable or tax-deductible, putting it on the same footing as child support payments, Gale said.
  — Kathleen Pender, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Nov. 2017
• The person paying the alimony, however, will no longer be able to deduct those payments from his or her income.
  — Stephen Koff, cleveland.com, 19 Dec. 2017
• The drop is tied to a few things: the loss of cost-saving measures like splitting a mortgage bill; legal fees; and payments like alimony or child support.
  — Kerri Anne Renzulli, Glamour, 18 Jan. 2018
• John Schneider served five hours out of his three-day jail sentence for unpaid alimony on Tuesday.
  — Sasha Savitsky, Fox News, 13 June 2018
• If the women needed to change custody schedules or alimony, their former husbands would tell them to go to court.
  — New York Times, 10 Mar. 2021
• The House plan would eliminate the tax deduction for alimony.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 3 Nov. 2017
• In 2013, the mother of two of his children sued for outstanding alimony payments.
  — Adam Williams, Billboard, 10 July 2018
• Wang was also awarded custody of their son and $300 per month in alimony, according to CNR.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 24 Feb. 2021
• Another sign of a possible truce: A plan for a hearing about alimony that could have lasted two days has been dropped.
  — Katherine Skiba, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2017
• Child support can't be taxed or deducted, but alimony would count as income for me.
  — Ellie Delano, Woman's Day, 26 Jan. 2011
• While the House approved alimony changes, the controversial issue stalled in the Senate.
  — Jim Saunders, orlandosentinel.com, 3 May 2021
• Needless to say, portions of it went to fund alimony payments to Jocelyn.
  — Alex Heigl, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2022
• But conservatives only want to bring back fault divorce — not the alimony regime that existed with it.
  — Alison Lefkovitz / Made By History, TIME, 23 July 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024