Rehabilitative alimony varies from case to case.

By comparison, courts permanent alimony to a person who because of health or age may be beyond rehabilitation and employment and simply incapable of self-support.

Alimony, both permanent or rehabilitative, can be very important to a nonworking spouse. In general, despite the emancipation of women, the career of a husband generally comes first, even in two-career, working- couple marriages. This arrangement, very common despite gains women have made in the work force, puts the wife at a real disadvantage when a marriage fails.

Courts divorce laws.

See Alimony.