“In what is being called an unprecedented ruling, a judge in Argentina has reportedly ordered a man to pay his ex-wife approximately $179,000 after she gave up her career for nearly three decades so she could clean the house and raise the kids.

Clarin Sociedad reports the unidentified 70-year-old woman struggled financially after the couple’s 2011 divorce while her husband continued to live well.

Man ordered to pay ex-wife $179K for child-rearing/housework

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