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"What is the reason why a person must make a financial contribution to his/her ex-spouse even though the marriage has ended?" is a milestone in the debate over alimony. This study asks the same question as follows: "What is the reason why a person needs the financial contribution of his/her ex-spouse even though the marriage has ended?" The article aims to deal with alimony from the perspective of women's human rights. Because, in line with the Turkish Court’s alimony decisions, it has been seen that the sex of poverty is female. In this context, firstly the root causes of women's poverty were investigated and then the effects of these reasons on women's human rights and alimony were discussed. The fact that gender role distribution is manifested as inequality intra-household, requires compensation for this inequality with alimony on the one hand and it creates the responsibility of the state following the social state principle on the other hand. In this process, field research data were used and the article was written based on empirical and theoretical findings. In line with these findings, the reason and function of indefinite alimony have been clarified. The study ended with the evaluation of the proposed amendments regarding indefinite alimony.