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[caseyelly]

What is the name of your state?Maryland. My ex-husband lives in s.c. I have a court order dated about 20 years ago. to pay $200.00 a month. The last 3 months I have had to write and remind him. I don't know if it is alzheimer or what. I need this money.What can I do to make sure he or present wife pays this?

Originally Posted by caseyelly

What is the name of your state?Maryland. My ex-husband lives in s.c. I have a court order dated about 20 years ago. to pay $200.00 a month. The last 3 months I have had to write and remind him. I don't know if it is alzheimer or what. I need this money.What can I do to make sure he or present wife pays this?

Tell him that if he doesn't forward the money when it's due and payable, you'll never speak to him again.

If that doesn't work, contact his present wife and tell her to pay the $200/mo or you'll come down there and put pop knots on her head.

If these things don't work, hire an attorney and start litigation proceedings against him for contempt of court.

[nextwife]

Only he is under a court order. His wife has no obligation to pay you alimony.

If he is ill (disabled, mentally incapacitated), or passes, that $200.00/month may stop. I do hope you have used the past 20 years of alimony to ready yourself for the day that $200/mo no longer comes in.

For now, you may file contempt.

But it may make sense to try to discover what is going on with him, so you can plan and proceed accordingly. For all you know, he is lying in a care center somewhere connected to tubes, or ill with a brain tumor or dying of cancer.

Originally Posted by nextwife

Only he is under a court order.
For all you know, he is lying in a care center somewhere connected to tubes, or ill with a brain tumor or dying of cancer.

If the judge ordered him to carry a life insurance policy to cover the lifetime alimony, then that statement would be exactly what she is hoping for.

[ablessin]

And that would be very cold and nasty.

And nextwife is totally correct..... his new spouse is not at all obligated to make sure you get that check every month.

Contacting her would be useless. And if your ex is terminally ill in a home - she probably won't have time or energy to give you a second thought.

[BelizeBreeze]

If not receiving $200 a month will cause you unending problems then get off the damn computer and get a parttime job. I spend $200 on GAS every month (and that's only when I don't go anywhere).