My EX Wife is now my EX Man

[Niels Bohr 72]

Thanks for the correction. Geezes, I keep thinking anything from space is all cosmic radiation. In my head, all I could think is radiation = electromagnetic.

Edited March 29, 2007 by consolemaster

[Dr_LHA 3]

Thanks for the correction. Geezes, I keep thinking anything from space is all cosmic radiation. In my head, all I could think is radiation = light.

Radiation can be in the form of light photons (e.g. Gamma-rays), but it can also be particles (Alpha and Beta Radiation). However Cosmic rays are not light, they are particles, and are hitting us all the time (causing genetic mutations). X-ray and Gamma-rays from space don't generally reach sea level due to atmospheric absorption.

[brnidokiegurl 0]

This is confusing, yes to some extent i guess the question would be man or woman or would you say this was your former spouse, now just because they (call) themselves something different does that change the reason for the payments. This (person) was the one helped support you in all things thru out the marriage maybe supporting the family while you went to school, etc.. Then the reasoning of that person being the same (person) wouldnt change he would still owe the support.

[Dr_LHA 3]

The guy is probably just pissed because now he knows his ex-wife isn't going to remarry and get him off the hook!

[brnidokiegurl 0]

Or now maybe she/he became a better looking man than him

[Ban Hammer 13,342]

On this one didnt catch all the details, names, locations etc but the subject of the question is more the point in question.

CLEARWATER, Fla. - A woman's sex change operation does not free her ex-husband from his alimony obligation, a judge said Wednesday.

Attorneys for Lawrence Roach, 48, had argued his 55-year-old ex-wife's decision to switch genders and change her name from Julia to Julio Roberto Silverwolf voided their 2004 divorce agreement.

"It's illegal for a man to marry a man and it should likewise be illegal for a man to pay alimony to a man," said John McGuire, one of Roach's attorneys.

Circuit Judge Jack R. St. Arnold, however, ruled that in the eyes of the law, nothing changed significantly enough to free Roach from his $1,250-a-month obligation.

The judge said since Florida courts have ruled sex-change surgery cannot legally change a person's birth gender, Roach technically is not paying alimony to a man.

Gender definitions are "a question that raises issues of public policy that should be addressed by the Legislature, not the Florida courts," St. Arnold wrote.

Silverwolf's lawyer, Gregory Nevins, said the language of the divorce decree is clear — Roach agreed to pay alimony until his ex-wife dies or remarries.

Nevins said he and his client were pleased with the ruling although they disagree with Florida's refusal to legally recognize gender reassignment surgery.

Roach, a utility worker who has since remarried, said he will press his fight to end the payments.

"We're going to try everything we can," he said. "I can't rest until I get satisfaction."

The case is the second transsexual rights showdown in Pinellas County in less than a week. On Friday, city commissioners voted 5-2 to fire Largo's city manager, Steve Stanton, after he announced he was a transsexual.

An Ohio appeals court ruled in September 2004 that a Montgomery County man must continue to pay alimony to his transsexual ex-wife because her sex change wasn't reason enough to violate the agreement.

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[brnidokiegurl 0]

Thanks Charles not sure this is the same man, the one i was hearing hasnt gone to trial yet, guess i should listen closer