x-sender: governor.haley@sc.lmhostediq.com x-receiver: governor.haley@sc.lmhostediq.com Received: from mail pickup service by sc.lmhostediq.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 3 Jan 2016 16:24:01 -0500 thread-index: AdFGbRCVYhgYKZ/QS7uNWXQJOxn7Vw== Thread-Topic: constituent - need your support for SC Alimony Reform From: To: Subject: constituent - need your support for SC Alimony Reform Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 16:24:01 -0500 Message-ID: <96F5F17F72FE4C6C8240ADC4580756DA@IQ12> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000 Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message Importance: normal Priority: normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.1.7601.17609 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Jan 2016 21:24:01.0613 (UTC) FILETIME=[10B4F7D0:01D1466D] CUSTOM Mr. Tim B Bruynell constituent South Carolina Alimony Reform 606 Hopewell Ridge Anderson SC 29621 timbruynell@yahoo.com 8643142164 4193571512 GOVE constituent - need your support for SC Alimony Reform 108.250.189.10 Governor Haley, I reside in Anderson, SC and am a constituent. I respectfully ask for your support concerning the advancement of SC Alimony Reform. I am a victim of the SC Alimony laws as they presently exist and just to set the record straight I am a Christian, never cheated on my ex-wife, and was divorced solely because she walked out and left the marriage. I was divorced with no cause other than 1 year continuous separation brought about by her leaving and filing for divorce. In South Carolina, however, it seems that if you are a woman married 15 years or longer and making less money at the time of divorce than your husband, you are afforded a life-long entitlement by the State under the label of "alimony". Many women do not see this as an entitlement, regardless of what SC law might afford them if they went after it. My ex-wife, however, saw alimony as a means to gain financially and did all she could to get it. My ex-wife holds a Masters degree plus in Education Administration and works in an Anderson, SC middle school as an assistant principal. She has nearly 20 years teacher seniority now and makes extra income by renting her lower lake house out and a small side-business. With her combined income she makes more than I do. I am 51 years old and have been paying alimony to my ex-wife for the past 8 years after a 20 year marriage. My ex-wife, now 49 years old is more highly educated than myself and has a combined greater income than I do yet she was awarded permanent alimony at the age of 41. I have remarried and live in a modest home in Anderson while raising step-children and putting a daughter through college. My ex-wife, with no plans to ever remarry, lives in a 550,000 north Anderson home on Lake Hartwell with summers off, European vacations, boat, hot tub, etc. BY the time my ex-wife retires she will have collected more years of alimony than we were married and of course who know how much longer after that. Do average folks like me in the state of South Carolina really know what is happening concerning alimony laws in their state and how unfair this current system is? My ex-wife was a 100% woman's libber prior to divorce, she worked a full time professional job, had more formal education than I did, we split household duties like cooking and cleaning, and she was the first to tell anyone that she could do anything a man could do and even better. Then she filed for divorce, met with an alimony attorney, and suddenly she was Suzie home-maker, married to an abusive husband, and needed alimony to get by. The law cared less about the facts, she was female, married for 20 years, and the rest just did not matter. Respectfully, Tim Bruynell - Anderson, SC timbruynell@yahoo.com