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I see alimony as one part of the problem that stems from the legal framework for marriage. Without alimony people might consider more heavily the decision to get married in a different way, the same way a higher earning spouse considers the decision to divorce differently now because its cheaper to keep him(er) as they say. I believe the purpose of law is to support certain notions of morality. I cite the absence of adultery as a crime in common law as wholly about morality that the law underwrites. I have no crisis, my measures are not without criticism. I also fundamentally disagree with treating marriage as a means to acrue property and maybe that is the property. Without changes in the law I cannot test whether social benefit will come from. I might go so far as to say that marriage cannot succeed as a contract and a means to acrue property. A propertarian theory of marriage is at odds with a contractarian one. One grants equitable relief and one damages.