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Ex-Husband Wants To stop Paying Alimony To Ex-Wife Who Had Sex Change
October 5, 2006 12:17 p.m. EST
Komfie Manalo - All Headline News Foreign Correspondent
Miami, Fl (AHN) - A man is asking the court to stop making him pay alimony to his ex-wife because she is now a man.
Lawrence Roach, of Seminole, Florida told Bay News 9 that his former wife had a sex-change operation and is now living as a man.
He wants the court to allow him to stop paying the monthly $1,200 monthly alimony payments.
Roach said, "This isn't right. It's humiliating to me and degrading. You know, I'm a man and I don't want to be paying alimony to a man. If you can't be married to a man legally, how can you legally pay alimony to a man?"
The man and his ex-wife, divorced 18 months ago after being married for more than 17 years.
October 5, 2006 12:17 p.m. EST
Komfie Manalo - All Headline News Foreign Correspondent
Miami, Fl (AHN) - A man is asking the court to stop making him pay alimony to his ex-wife because she is now a man.
Lawrence Roach, of Seminole, Florida told Bay News 9 that his former wife had a sex-change operation and is now living as a man.
He wants the court to allow him to stop paying the monthly $1,200 monthly alimony payments.
Roach said, "This isn't right. It's humiliating to me and degrading. You know, I'm a man and I don't want to be paying alimony to a man. If you can't be married to a man legally, how can you legally pay alimony to a man?"
The man and his ex-wife, divorced 18 months ago after being married for more than 17 years.
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