Alimony is higher if the Italian ex-wife is from the South

by Roberta Lunghini - 2016.10.19

In Italy, if one's ex-wife lives in the South, her alimony check will be higher than the national average. To arrive at the sum, the difficult workplace in the South is taken into consideration. This is at least what the Supreme Court judges decided when they denied appeal to a man who appealed an earlier decision that had been made by the Court of Appeal of Palermo. The court confirmed what had been established in the first case, where the man was ordered to pay his ex-wife a monthly sum of €1.400. The man's complaints that his wife had never even tried to find work, were not acknowledged by the court. The judges gave more weight to the advanced age of the woman at the time of the divorce and the fact that she had dedicated her entire life to the family and her marriage, and had no professional skills of any kind. Added to that is her right to a higher alimony because she lives in Sicily.