‘Manimony’ Less Rare Than Formerly

Only four percent of divorced women pay alimony to their ex-husbands, in part because men, as a group, make more.

But men, when they are the lower-paid spouses, are entitled to such post-divorce support while they get back on their feet again, just the same as women. And, although some are embarrassed to seek it, the practice of women paying so-called manimony to their ex-husbands is becoming a bit less unusual, reports CNN.

Although both sides tend to keep quiet about it, women who pay alimony to their ex-husbands represent about 10 percent of her clients, says Nancy Chemtob of Chemtob Moss Forman & Talbert in New York City. "When I first started 14 years ago, that number was zero."