With many of the nation’s top divorce lawyers citing an increase in the number of women ordered to pay alimony (often referred to as “man-imony”), Business Insider asked Cordell & Cordell CEO Joseph Cordell to confirm the trend through a survey of the firm’s 145 family law attorneys located in 24 states.
Cordell & Cordell attorneys affirmed that the trend is not a fluke; more women are being saddled with alimony and child support payments that have long been considered almost guaranteed to be ordered to the father in divorce cases.
“This is a glacial but positive movement on the part of judges to be more gender blind in divorce court,” Mr. Cordell told Business Insider.
It’s also a sign that women are finding more success on their career paths and are now becoming more responsible for financial obligations to the family.
However, there is still progress to be made, according to Mr. Cordell.
“One thing I heard back from our divorce lawyers was while we consider it cause for celebration … judges are still tight-fisted when they’re pulling money out of the wife’s hands for the husband’s support,” he said. “There’s still not symmetry there.”
For more information, read the full article “Men Winning Divorce Battles.”
Written by Joseph E. Cordell
Joseph E. Cordell is the Principal Partner at Cordell and Cordell, P.C., which he founded in 1990 with his wife, Yvonne. Over the past 25 years, the firm has grown to include more than 100 offices in 30 states, as well as internationally in the United Kingdom. Mr. Cordell is licensed to practice in the states of Illinois and Missouri and received his LL.M. from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Joseph E. Cordell was named one of the Top 10 Best Family Law Attorneys for Client Satisfaction in Missouri.
