What do you think about women that take advantage of divorce laws?

Interesting. In this country either partner might have to pay alimony if they are the one who makes more. A lot just comes down to how good your lawyer is, though. It doesn't really sound fair but it makes sense that a woman get alimony because quite often the women are the ones who stay home to raise the family so they do not have the same career prospects. Men do benefit from their wives staying home because the wife does the housework and keeps things running smoothly as well as raising the children. So it is tricky to say how the law should be changed because it isn't fair that a man benefits from the woman staying home but if they gett divorced, he still had that benefit while she can't earn as much. If my husband and I divorced, he'd have to pay some alimony - I worked to put him through school and am now working parttime while staying home with our child - there is no way I could earn as much as he does. And he definitely benefited career-wise from being married, because otherwise he wouldn't have gotten his degree. I wouldn't want to take advantage of that, but at the same time, I don't think it's fair if I put all this effort into our life together and then lost all of it because he is the one who earns most of our income. I wouldn't need to worry about child support - he would make sure our children are well provided for and we already have started an account for our son's college fund in his own name so if we divorced that wouldn't be affected.

I think that the U.S. has alimony in some cases. I would hope that these men that marry women in Greece are careful to be sure they are marrying for love and that they know their partner very well before marrying them. That is how it should be anyway but so many people jump into marriage without getting to know one another first that this alimony law might just be the ticket all over.

Seem like Greece women are plenty smart to take full advantage of this antiquated law that is still applied unequally upon men. May be it is time for Greek law makers to awake from their deep sleep and begin to craft some modern divorce law that place both sexes fully responsible for the divorce and end the unfair treatment of men by forcing them to pay alimony without taking special circumstances into account. The law may demand an extremely wealthy father or high income ex-husband to pay a higher proportion of the child support or fully support the child financially even the ex-wife got the custody. But paying high alimony to the ex-wife no matter what is her financial condition and her present relationship with other men is totally discriminatory in nature in term of gender equality. May be it is not one of the tenet of Greece legal requirement to treat men as equal as far as Greek justice system is concerned.

Not women taking advantages because divorce is not only one side option if man is ready for it then women can take it. But different country different views but here in India women not taking divorce for alimony but due to man behavour husband torture his wife for dowry, for girl born as child, financial problem etc.

Here men pay only if the couple has children who stay with the woman. But I know many who don't even pay although they could afford it, and women just leave it. By the way women with small children have very little chance to find a job nowadays, so I think paying is fair if there are children, but if the woman can work? Personally I wouldn't have the guts to take advantage of a law like that, but I know many women are "smart" enough to do it. I wonder how common it is to get married, being aware of this alimony law? I guess you can't be wise enough when you get married...

We live in the same country but I wasn't familiar with this law! I imagine that this law is old, because some years ago most women were dedicated to their families and didn't work so the law was ensuring a source of income for them if they wanted a divorce. I think that lawss should be equal for both men and women. When there is a child it's different, both parents have obligations for the financial support of the child's needs. Otherwise, it's fair to have equality in law when the couple decides to get a divorce.

It happens here all the best urban

In my country normally ex-husbands only have to pay a certain amount depending on what they earn for their children. Here, women turn back into being legally "single". There´s so such thing as divorce even if they are called that way. When children are of age, parents can stop paying. The law also says that when children are grown up, they have to help their parents if they need it.

wow take care of the unmarried woman for how long,,as long as she lives, or how long...that lsw is enough to make men not want to get married....LOL... No its not like this in my country there is a limit to almost everything here...LOL...