Georgia Ballot Initiative for a
 Constitutional Amendment
to Abolish Alimony

"The original error [was in] establishing a judiciary independent of the nation, and which, from the citadel of the law, can turn its guns on those they were meant to defend, and control and fashion their proceedings to its own will."
--Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 1807. FE 9:68

BE IT  ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA THAT: 
ARTICLE I, SECTION I OF THE GEORGIA CONSTITUTION IS HEREBY AMENDED BY THE ADDITION OF THE FOLLOWING:

Every person whose marriage has been dissolved shall not be encumbered by any type of governmental intrusion in the form of an alimony obligation to the former spouse. This section shall not be construed to affect a person’s obligation to provide child support and maintain equal responsibility for minor children, or affect the equitable distribution of marital property. This amendment shall take effect upon passage by the voters and apply to all past, current, and future petitions for dissolution of marriage involving requests for alimony. 

Georgia Alimony Reform and its affiliated national alimony reform groups have proposed a ballot initiative petition for the above amendment that if passed would free thousands of Georgians from the perpetual burden of peonage that they suffer and endure through the lifetime alimony statutes of Georgia. 

Volunteers are needed to help us gather petition signatures to get this amendment on the November ballot. If you can devote some time to helping us spread the word, please contact us at

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Alimony is an archaic remnant from an age when religious courts controlled marriage and divorce, and when women lacked the right to vote and become gainfully employed. None of these things are true today. Yet corrupt lawyers and judges in the Georgia state court system desperately cling to the Georgia alimony statutes for the purpose of making large sums of money. They are unconcerned about depriving Georgia's citizens of their constitutional Rights to Privacy, nor about forcing thousands of men into Georgia jails, or making them face the threat of jail due to indebtedness from or inability to pay alimony. Georgia's antiquated alimony laws have effectively created a corrupt system of Debtor's Prisons.

Forcing one person to be perpetually indebted and indentured to another is Peonage or Involuntary Servitude, which is a form of Slavery. Article I, Section I, Paragraph XXII of the Georgia Constitution already forbids Involuntary Servitude, making it a criminal act, while Paragraph XXIII makes Debtor's Prisons illegal as well. Amendment 13 of the U.S. Constitution expressly prohibits Involuntary Servitude. In addition, Federal laws 42 USC 1994, 18 USC 1581 and 1584 make Peonage and Involuntary Servitude punishable as both civil and criminal offenses. Yet the Georgia state court system, with the overt approval of the Georgia Supreme Court, defiantly violates both State and Federal Constitutions and Federal law, continuing its corrupt, repressive campaign to illegally use alimony for profit, callously causing wholesale destruction of entire families.

Please help us fight the atrocity of alimony by joining Georgia Alimony Reform in common cause with other national alimony reform groups to amend the Georgia Constitution once and for all and to drive the scourge of alimony from our fair state. Also, write letters and emails to your state Senators and Congressmen urging them to pass legislation repealing the Georgia Alimony Statutes, O.C.G.A. §§ 19-6-(1-35). If you know of a Family Law judge who routinely ignores or violates the law, contact the Georgia Congressional Judiciary Committees at (404) 656-5125 and (404) 656-0070, and demand that this judge be impeached. And if you are currently fighting alimony in state court, stand up for your constitutional rights, and fight back!
 

For case filings and law on constitutionality of state alimony statutes click here..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Related Site Links

• Citizens For Liberty And Privacy

• Alliance For Freedom From Alimony, Inc.

• Abolish Alimony Org.: One man's fight to abolish "lifetime" alimony

• Alimony Central Org: The gateway to alimony and divorce information