I received these emails today. The info below if from several emails.
All, most of you are aware Bill Cabana has been fighting the alimony
scheme pro se in Palm Beach County. Today the judge ordered him to pay a purge of somewhere around $7000. Bill does not have that kind of money and so was immediately incarcerated. He was not given any time to get his personal affairs in order, such as arranging care for his elderly mother, getting the car he was using back across state, etc, etc.
The Florida alimony scam is not just wrong , it is abhorrently abusive.
When a man who paid under order for 33 years, loses his job in his 60's,
goes to court at nearly 70, has no money, assets, or ability to pay and
proves beyond a doubt his ex has no need, and still gets thrown in jail
by an ignorant phsycopathic judge over alimony - we are all in deep
sXXt in this country. Bill has become our new poster child for family
court judicial abuse in Florida."
In a nutshell, he was married 11 years - divorced since 1972. He was
ordered to pay permanent alimony - which he did for almost 30 years until he couldn't afford to do it anymore - so he stopped paying. His ex-wife is in a much better financial position than he is, but kept dragging him back to
court. The whole issue (court filings, etc) are on the web site
www.abolish-alimony.org click on "Legal" and then "State and Federal Filings" and you will see the whole story.
The bottom line here Bill is that tens or hundreds of thousands of
men accross the country are reduced to rubble through divorce - they literally have their lives taken away and are reduced to nothing more than a slave in having to support a former spouse at the expense of their own lives. This obligation that they incurr through divorce subjects them to a substandard life from thatpoint on, and a threat of imprisonment (as was carried out against Mr. Cabana above) if they fail to perform this duty of support (which we did not have when we were married, but only after we divorced).
Unfortunately those who have never divorced don't really know what
happens to us in that process and what becomes of our lives when we are shackled to having to support someone else (who has no obligation to us) for an indefinite period of time and sometimes (as in Cabana's case - forever). Why should our lives be ruined because we get divorced?
The law on this is very clear and was even pointed out to us by a legislative aid last year. Judges are not allowed to jail you on contempt as a coercive measure if they cannot show/prove you have the ability to pay the purge amount. To do so constitutes a civil rights violation as well as creates debtors prisons which are prohibited by the constitution. These $&%$$# judges pay no attention to the law because they think the legislature has put them above it.
This man was thrown in jail this morning, on contempt charges, even after proving that he was not capable of paying the alimony and that his ex wife was capable of caring for herself.
Man Thrown in Jail for Contempt
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