To: The Oregon State House, The Oregon State Senate, and Governor Kate Brown
Alimony Reform in Oregon
Please support HB 2559 and help us enact much-needed alimony reform in Oregon. The current system is unfair, antiquated, sexist and creates a private welfare system which incentivizes recipients to remain unemployed and dependent upon a former spouse.
Why is this important?
Dear Governor:
Please support HB 2559 which will create much-needed alimony (spousal support) reform in Oregon. My husband, and thousands of other payers like him, has been strangled by excessive alimony payments to a wealthy college-educated woman for ten years (despite a reduction in his income) with no end in sight. Modifications are terribly expensive to seek and difficult to obtain, even when a payer has lost his or her job. The economic downturn has created a system in which payers go bankrupt trying to support a former spouse, while that former spouse has no obligation to seek employment and suffers no income decline. Our bill would set guidelines for alimony awards, thus reducing expensive and heart-wrenching litigation, and would equalize the system to lessen the punishment suffered by income earners when a marriage fails.