The number of cases involving men receiving alimony doubled over the period of 2002 - 2006. The Wall Street Journal reports that nearly 4% of alimony payments were to men as of 2006. More importantly, an article on CNN showed that as of 2009, it was reported that fully 10% of some divorce attorney's clients were women paying alimony to their ex-husbands

Some feminists say cases such as Mr. Garnick's show progress of a sort. "We can't assert rights for women and say that men aren't entitled to the same rights," says the famous feminist lawyer, Gloria Allred.

But the women who have to pay it are sounding a different chord. "I feel financially raped," says Rhonda Friedman, the former wife of Mr. Castellanos. So distasteful are the monthly payments she makes to him that after filling out the check she used to spit on it. Especially galling, she says, is that she was required to pay a substantial portion of the legal fees he racked up while securing a lucrative divorce agreement.

-Wall Street Journal 4/1/08