Man women can be hell. Theres this footballer from over here, Ray Parlour, who has to pay 12500 pounds (18k dollars?) per kid (he has 3) maintenance, and had to pay his wife 444k out of his 1.2 mil a year earnings on top as alimony payments. He has now retired from football, so his earnings have clearly dropped massively, but the judge ruled he would have to give his ex 35% of all his future earnings, on top of the maintenance for the kids. He could end up paying his ex-wife more in alimony payments than he gets to keep himself! It is a crazy world.