Cormorano

The bill in Massachusetts’ House of Representatives has gained the support of a group called the 2nd Wives Club. Club co-founder Jeanie Hitner, who is 59 and lives in Marlbourough, Mass., testified to state legislators last month that she is working a second job—tutoring math four nights a week—to help her husband make alimony payments to his first wife. Ms. Hitner says she wishes she had just stayed his girlfriend. “If I had known about this before we got married, I never would have married him,” says Ms. Hitner. Her husband, Steve Hitner, is the head of Reform Massachusetts Alimony Laws Now!, a grass-roots group that consists mostly of alimony-paying men, and supports the same bill. “I don’t blame her; I never would have put her through this if I had known what she was going to be in for,” Mr. Hitner says.

— The New Art of Alimony - WSJ.com