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As long as your ex is a full-time student and not earning, the best way to remain true to your own high principles is to accept his unequal and meagre contributions, and look for ways to support your son adequately yourself - just as, in effect, you have always done.

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  1. preposition Not including; without: a stock price ex dividend.
  2. preposition Business Free of any transport or handling charges incurred before removal from a given location: bought the goods ex warehouse.
  3. preposition From, but not having graduated with, the class of: a Columbia alumnus, ex '70.
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  • Setting up a meeting to talk with your ex is the best way to sort out the problems the two of you are having as long as you've followed the lessons outlined in the sites below first. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
  • Whats this dream mean, my ex was able to walk again, fell in love, but at the end, tells me to f*ck off? —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • I had that situation, and the kids aloways came first, his ex was always doing things to ruin our plans, we wanted to go out one her weekend, if she found out, she changed the schedule. —  [Help] Most Recent Posts
  • There's been rumblings around town that her ex is about to get hitched. —  Sky Showbiz - Latest
  • A court ordered Linda Williams to hand over Damon 'Boogie' Jr to Dash back in September (08), but she alleges her ex is a bad dad; fuming at reports he took their underage son to a nightclub on New Year's Eve (31Dec08) to teach him how to DJ. —  ContactMusic Ltd | Latest News
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  1. Latin; see eghs in Indo-European roots.
  2. From ex-.

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  1. from Middle English *ex = Anglo-Saxon *ex, from Latin ix, from i, an assistant vowel, + x; or a transposition of the Greek name ξῐ, xi.
  2. Latin ex, preposition, out of, from. See ex-.
 

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