
Jan Kilillea gets permanent alimony from her husband and works as a nanny.
Correction Appended: May 16, 2013
Debbie Leff Israel has a math problem. Like so many math problems, it's also a romantic problem. In 2009, Leff Israel, a divorced math professor, connected on Facebook with a friend from high school whom she hadn't seen in 26 years. "We fell in love," she says. John Kelapire, an amiable engineer for a cruise-ship company, proposed to her, she says, in 2010, after his divorce from his wife was final.
But there was a hitch. Kelapire pays about a third of his take-home pay to his ex-wife and will until one of them dies....