# Do I owe her a car?

**URL:** <https://forum.rosen.com/t/do-i-owe-her-a-car/10413>\
**Category:** Divorce and Separation Answers\
**Created:** [June 28, 2010, 2:28pm UTC](https://forum.rosen.com/t/do-i-owe-her-a-car/10413 "2010-06-28T14:28:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![TEC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@TEC](https://forum.rosen.com/u/TEC)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 2:28pm UTC](https://forum.rosen.com/t/do-i-owe-her-a-car/10413/1 "2010-06-28T14:28:05Z")

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I moved out of my house over 3 months ago (with legal advice and a letter). My wife has been a stay at home Mom for 4 years. I leased a BMW for her and I almost 3 years ago. The payments on the BMW are $1,000/Month The lease ends in Sept. of this year. She says that I owe her a car equal to or close to what she is accustomed too.

Is this true? Is this a NC law?

Our other car is payed for and that’s the one I took. She didn’t want the car that was paid for. Now she is saying that I owe I have to buy her a car and ME make the payments while she stays at home thinking she doesn’t even have to get a job.

Thanks,  
TEC

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**Author:** ![Erin\_Clarey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9de0a6/32.png) [@Erin\_Clarey](https://forum.rosen.com/u/Erin_Clarey)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://forum.rosen.com/t/do-i-owe-her-a-car/10413/2 "2010-06-28T15:58:14Z")

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The law does not state that you must provide her with any particular type of car. Alimony is meant to allow the dependant spouse to maintain a standard of living close to that of what it was during the marriage, but that does not mean you are required to maintain a luxury vehicle for her.