TNT Valentine's Edition: Nasty Notes on Alimony Payments Burn Ex-Hubby, But Only Slightly

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 14 February 2022)

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alimony report.

How do you fix a broken heart? Get a lawyer and find out.

Teachers Nihal B. and Barış A. married in 2011.  They had no children

together but joined forces to accumulate some wealth, with Nihal B.

making a large contribution to the couple's financial success with her

business and household acumen.  During their marriage, the couple had

a firm with a 2 million TL turnover, two luxury cars, 4 flats in Izmir

and one in Istanbul.  

However (!), after 7 years of marriage,  Nihal B. accused  Barış A. of 

faithlessness, physical and psychological abuse, hiding assets and 

funneling money to his relatives.  She filed a "hostile" divorce suit but 

upon Barış A.'s request, the divorce was then characterized as "arranged 

by agreement".   So Nihal B. relented on her large alimony and 

compensation demands, asking only for the Istanbul flat, a 2016-model

car and a small amount of alimony.  Most of the wealth the couple had

accumulated went to Barış A. 

However (!!), Barış A. could not stomach paying 7,000 TL to Nihal B.

each month in alimony and he couldn't help himself from writing 

"begrudged alimony!" and "damned alimony!" on the checks.  When

Nihal B. saw these remarks she regretted having agreed to the friendly

divorce.  In a petition she stated through her lawyer: "my client has

been damaged psychologically.  The remarks written on the alimony

checks are an insult to my client.  Consequently, we want 250,000 TL

in spiritual compensation."

The court decided that "Barış A., after divorcing Nihal B., remarried 

and he claims that paying alimony deprives his child of sustenance.  

However, since Barış A. openly expressed this dissatisfaction on the

alimony checks, to the effect that his former wife did not deserve the

alimony, he had caused her distress and must pay compensation."

Rather than 250,000 in compensation, though, the court ruled that 

Barış A. must pay Nihal B. 15,000 TL. 

 

                       Send Barış A. to the front!