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Claim: Several social media accounts claim US President Donald Trump has recently signed an order to ban men from making alimony payments to women after divorce.
Verdict: False. Data from the White House shows that none of the executive orders signed by Donald Trump following his inauguration is related to divorce or alimony payment.
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Since his inauguration on January 21, 2025, US President Donald Trump signed 26 executive orders and made several proclamations. Among the notable directives are withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization, pardoning or commuting sentences for persons convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, ending birthright citizenship, withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, and declaring a national energy emergency.
These raft of orders and proclamations have left various affected groups, including African migrants, apprehensive. Amid the uncertainties and reports of more unilateral decisions by President Trump, a viral claim has emerged that the president has signed an order to abolish the payment of alimony to women after a divorce.
The claim emerged on different platforms here, here, and here.
An excerpt of one of the claims read:
“President Donald Trump breaks the divorce law that has been tormenting men in the US. Donald Trump just became the 47th president of the United States, and he finally wants to look into the divorce law that has been tormenting men in America. ‘Just because you get married to a rich man doesn’t mean you have to get half of his wealth and end up rich after divorce… I think that just because somebody marries somebody that built something huge doesn’t necessarily mean that just because they get a divorce, they should end up like the Queen of Sheba,” attributing the quote to Donald Trump.
Photo: Screenshot of some comments under one of the claims
DUBAWA decided to investigate this claim due to the potential to mislead.
Verification
DUBAWA assessed a list of Donald Trump’s presidential actions since his January 23, 2025 inauguration. The list on the official White House website did not include any action related to divorce or alimony payment.
News updates on Trump’s major decisions since his inauguration on leading US publications, including USA Today, did not indicate the signing or introduction of any law associated with alimony payment.
DUBAWA’s checks show that the viral claim stems from related claims, including Vice President James David Vance’s stance against no-cause divorce.
- JD Vance and no-fault divorce
JD Vance and some conservative podcasters around 2021 strongly advocated abolishing the no-fault divorce law. The no-fault divorce law allows a spouse to file for divorce without necessarily showing evidence of wrongdoing by the other spouse as the cause for dissolution.
According to the Associated Press, JD Vance, during a speech at a Christian high school in California, said,
“We’ve run this experiment in real-time, and what we have is a lot of very, very real family dysfunction that’s making our kids unhappy,” criticising the law that allows people “shift spouses like they change their underwear.”
Since November 2024, these past comments by Vice President Vance have been trending on social media, with some people worried that the law may change under President Donald Trump.
- Donald Trump and child support
Another related claim says President Donald Trump has signed a bill that forbids recipients of child support from claiming the child on their tax returns. The claim has gone viral on various platforms, including Instagram,
This claim has already been verified as false by Snopes and NBC-affiliated KGW.
Conclusion
Based on information from the White House and news reports from credible outlets, US President Donald Trump has not signed any law related to divorce or alimony payment.
