a growing number of men are quitting their jobs or being disowned by the family business to avoid paying alimony to their wives when the honeys gone its just about the money isnt it ask couples seeking divorce and the legal wrangles they end up in while claiming or evading maintenance could put any movie to shame now to avoid their spouse from having any monetary advantage over them men are even quitting their high paying jobs quitting jobs during a divorce plea has become routine going by justice roshan dalvis observation in a recent case where the husband quit a 3croreperannum plus bonuses job with cairn india just so he could avoid paying a substantial sum as maintenance to his wife and three children within a week of filing for divorce the husband had resigned from his high paying job transferred 55 crore to a separate account moved to chicago where he now lives and claimed to be jobless why did your client shift to chicago he should have gone to sholapur instead he proudly claims to have been dismissed judicial notice is required to be taken of the fact that in cases where husbands refuse and neglect maintaining the wife and children they show themselves to have been dismissed said justice dalvi however this ploy isnt new says shobha a lawyer at delhi high court who goes on to cite cases as far back as 1983 where men quit their jobs high paying or otherwise just to reduce the amount they would have to pay as alimony but the trends picked up in recent years she adds not just that men often end up seeking maintenance or alimony from their wives by proving that theyre jobless in 2011 i was the legal counsel in a case where the man not just presented a case in court of being insolvent and that his business had gone bust but also ended up having the wife an entrepreneur pay him 20000 per month as his maintenance a car and some other assets says shobha when meerutbased trisha pradhan then 37 and her husband filed for divorce 11 years after a rocky marriage she least expected her husband to evade payment of alimony and maintenance for their son by quitting his job with an it major in noida but thats exactly the ploy he used we were filing for divorce on grounds of mutual consent so this was a little out of the blue he actually turned around and asked me to support him after divorce since i was working thankfully the court wasnt taken in by his case and ordered him to pay for the alimony as well as our sons maintenance by selling his ancestral property i did forgo the fight for the alimony though because the divorce proceedings were getting so ugly relates trisha while salaried men quit jobs those involved in family businesses resort to far more astute measures to avoid their monetary obligations says saif