mistoffolees
Senior Member
Since I have no intention of filing any forms in Texas over alimony or family maintenance or anything else, for that matter, your distinction is useless.Let's be clear on this.... YOU can call alimony anything you want... EXCEPT when it comes to the law. Law is VERY word specific. You file a claim for ALIMONY in Texas... and it will get denied... since Texas doesn't recognize ALIMONY!!
BTW, By your logic, no one in Texas should be deducting alimony on their Federal taxes as Bali pointed out. Are you counseling everyone in Texas to forego the tax deduction? And are you counseling recipients to not put it onto their tax return?
Why don't you grow up a bit? For purposes of this discussion, there's no real difference between the two. Certainly, your personal attacks are way off base.