Senate Republican leaders have dropped a perennially controversial effort to overhaul the state’s alimony laws, saying they’ll take another stab at a revamp during next year’s legislative session.

For nearly a decade, efforts to rewrite Florida’s alimony laws have touched off emotional debates, in part pitting homemakers and stay-at-home dads against breadwinners, who argue they are forced to continue working past retirement age so they can afford to make required monthly payments to ex-spouses.

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