marital status

Ask the taxgirl: Alimony and payments to ex-spouses

Kelly Phillips Erb
May 18, 2008 15:09

Taxpayer asks: I PAY MY XWIFE SUPPORT CAN I CLAIM THAT MONEY ON MY TAXES? Taxgirl says: This is another one of those questions for which I have received a bunch of variations on a theme. It’s not just high profile divorcees like Britney Spears and Kevin Federline, pictured above, who have to...

Assumption Stereotyping as Family Status Discrimination

May 18, 2008 00:16

This is our second post in our series on “family status” discrimination. The last post dealt with examples of “moral stereotyping” where an employer’s belief on what women should do motivates their discrimination. This post deals with what I call...

Moral Stereotyping as Family Status Discrimination

May 03, 2008 22:01

This is my second post in our multi-part series on “family status” discrimination, which is becoming more and more common under both federal and state law. There are many ways family status discrimination can happen in the workplace, some of which are very subtle and difficult to prove....

Family Status Discrimination Series

April 16, 2008 14:45

One employment law claim that has been quickly becoming more popular these days is “family status discrimination”. That is, discriminating against someone based on their familial obligations or simply because they have a family in the first place. Widespread use of this claim is so...

Ron Paul on Employee Rights (Part 2): Unattractive Women Need Not Apply

January 16, 2008 20:02

This is the second in our series of posts based on Presidential Candidate Ron Paul’s musings on employee rights in his book Freedom Under Siege. This installment’s “Paulism” can be found on page 17 of the book: The idea that the social do-gooder can legislate a system...