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What is an alimony?

What is an alimony? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (law) A court-mandated allowance made to a former spouse by a divorced or legally separated person.
  2. The means to support life.
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However, the ecclesiastical courts could order a husband to pay alimony to a wife seeking a separation from him.
However, by doing so she loses the right to maintenance or alimony which a divorced woman can claim legally.
This bill is about people using the bankruptcy system to evade paying alimony and child support payments.
Today the doors of the civil courts are open for us in issues of custody, alimony, maintenance, guardianship and shared property.
His parents were divorced and his family lived off of alimony and child support.
Certain debts such as back taxes, student loans, alimony, and child support cannot be discharged.

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