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Legendary Cubs Hall of Famer Ernie Banks Elected Honorary President of Fatherhood Educational Institute

Left to right, FEI advisory board member and former New York Giant Gordon Bell, FEI President Emeritus attorney Jeffery Leving, Honorary President Ernie Banks, FEI board member matrimonial attorney James Hagler and FEI supporter, matrimonial & appellate attorney Andrey Filipowicz.

Legendary Cubs Hall of Famer Ernie "Mr. Cub" Banks was elected Honorary President of the Fatherhood Educational Institute (FEI). FEI is a non-profit organization founded by nationally recognized family law attorney Jeffery M. Leving. The non-profit is dedicated to promoting positive fatherhood involvement in all communities.

Mr. Banks became involved with FEI because he was impressed by its outreach programs and seminars. The Cubs Hall of Famer was especially admiring of FEI’s fatherhood educational seminars, which allow men to gather together and talk about some of the stresses of modern fatherhood, as well as its Virtual Visitation Initiative, which aims to foster greater connection between children and fathers who are physically removed from their families because of disability, illness, military service or incarceration.

For more information about the Fatherhood Educational Institute call Jennifer Whiteside at 312.795.9060 and visit www.fatherhood-edu.org.

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Ask SingleDad, Fathers Rights: Paying Alimony after Re-Married

Author: Matt Allen, Editor, DadsDivorce

Posted: 08/17/12

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Paying Alimony After Remarriage

I've been paying alimony to my ex-wife up until she got re-married. She briefly remarried, but she was able to get that marriage legally annulled shortly thereafter.

Will I have to resume paying her alimony since an annulment is basically akin to a marriage never existing?

Answer:

from Michigan divorce attorney Jennifer Paine:

In most alimony orders, alimony terminates upon remarriage. End of story. It does not resume when the supported spouse divorces again.

For example, an ex-wife cannot divorce her second, home-body and poor husband and come back to the first, hardworking husband for support because the second did not have pockets quite as deep.

The support was intended to maintain the spouse’s standard of living until she remarried, at which point she obtained a new standard of living with her second husband.

However, alimony orders can be as creative as the parties agree or the judge decides, so long as the order is not against public policy. I have seen orders for lifetime alimony that only terminates upon death – not remarriage to a second husband or a third or a fourth.

These are two opposite extremes. Where does your scenario fall? You must read your order carefully to determine where.

A divorce lawyer who can interpret the language is a must – otherwise, if you do owe support but do not understand the order and fail to pay it, you risk accruing alimony arrears or missing the deadline to object to reinstatement or ask for a modification or termination.

Cordell & Cordell is the nation’s largest men’s divorce law firm with offices in 24 states and is happy to assist men in divorce and alimony modification cases.