ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) – A lawyer for former Gov. James McGreevey has again argued that the nation’s first openly gay governor has no ability to pay alimony to his estranged wife.

But lawyers for Dina Matos again have again contended that McGreevey simply refuses to work so he can deny support to her and their daughter.

The arguments were made in more than 200 pages submitted June 30 to the state judge who is to decide the financial structure of the pending divorce. The documents expand on the lawyers’ trial summations and were released Aug. 4 by the judge.

Superior Court Judge Karen Cassidy has not said when she might rule.

The documents reiterate the positions of New Jersey’s former first couple, whose bitter relationship was exposed during the divorce trial, which ended June 4.

McGreevey resigned in 2004, acknowledging in a nationally televised speech that he is “a gay American” who had an affair with a male staffer. The staffer denies the affair and says he was sexually harassed by the governor.

The McGreeveys split three months after the speech some four years into their marriage.

Matos, 41, said she borrowed heavily to buy a $430,000 house in Springfield. She lost her hospital fund-raising job when the hospital closed in June.

McGreevey, 50, said he is broke. He lives in a Plainfield mansion owned by his boyfriend, Mark O’Donnell, and has enrolled at an Episcopal seminary.

McGreevey’s lawyers argued, in a 159-page submission, that the former governor’s part-time employment at Kean University and elsewhere grosses about $48,000 – about half of what Matos has been making or can make – so she does not need his help.

The lawyers derided the budget proposed by Matos, and called her monthly clothing budget of $700 “absurdly disproportionate to her income.” That and other items in her “inflated lifestyle demand” are unrealistic, they said.

They also argued that she was not entitled the perks similar to those she enjoyed at Drumthwacket, the governor’s mansion, contending that McGreevey “cannot be required to finance a lifestyle that neither he nor (Matos) supported even during the marriage.” Their former situation “was a reflection and an extension of (McGreevey’s) temporary elected status as governor,” they said.

However, Matos’ lawyer said McGreevey’s “motives are clearly a bad faith attempt to frustrate the support that the defendant seeks for herself and for Jacqueline. His actions and conduct are a direct result of his decision to devote himself to full-time studies at the General Theological Seminary since September 2007.”

Matos wants the judge to estimate what McGreevey could make in determining alimony and child support. “Anything less would be a windfall to him and would encourage him to never earn an income in accordance with his earning capacity,” her lawyer wrote.

Matos has asked the judge for $2,500 a month alimony for four years, $1,750 a month support, and for McGreevey to foot her legal bills for the divorce, which exceed $250,000.

McGreevey does not want to pay alimony, and is hoping to be assessed support payments of about $100 a month based on state guidelines factoring in the incomes of both parents and their custody arrangements.