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C.R.S. § 14-10-114. Colorado Maintenance – This version of the statute is EFFECTIVE as of 1/1/2014 | Front Range Legal Services - A Colorado law firm servicing Broomfield, Boulder, Superior, Westminster, Denver, Lakewood, Arvada, Golden, Aurora, Thornton and throughout Colorado C.R.S. § 14-10-114. Colorado Maintenance – This version of the statute is EFFECTIVE as of 1/1/2014 – Front Range Legal Services – A Colorado law firm servicing Broomfield, Boulder, Superior, Westminster, Denver, Lakewood, Arvada, Golden, Aurora, Thornton and throughout Colorado
§ 14-10-114. [Effective 1/1/2014] Spousal maintenance – guidelines – legislative declaration – definitions
(1) Legislative declaration.
(I) Determination of maintenance.When a party has requested maintenance In a dissolution of marriage, legal separation, or declaration of invalidity proceeding, prior to granting or denying an award of maintenance, the court shall make initial written or oral findings concerning:
(b) Guideline amount and term of maintenance – combined gross income of up to two hundred forty thousand dollars and duration of marriage of at least three years.If the duration of the parties’ marriage is at least three years and the parties’ combined, annual adjusted gross income does not exceed the greater of two hundred forty thousand dollars or the uppermost limits of the schedule of basic child support obligations set forth in section 14-10-115, the court shall make additional oral or written findings concerning the duration of the marriage in whole months and the guideline amount and term of maintenance, calculated as follows:
(I) Guideline maintenance amount.The amount of maintenance under the guidelines is equal to forty percent of the higher income party’s monthly adjusted gross income less fifty percent of the lower income party’s monthly adjusted gross income; except that, when added to the gross income of the recipient, shall not result in the recipient receiving in excess of forty percent of the parties’ combined monthly adjusted gross income.
(A) The term of maintenance under the guidelines, calculated in whole months, for marriages of at least three years but not more than twenty years, is set forth in the table contained in sub-subparagraph (B) of this subparagraph (II). When the duration of the parties’ marriage exceeds twenty years, the court may award maintenance for a specified term of years or for an indefinite term, but the court shall not specify a maintenance term that is less than the maintenance term under the guidelines for a twenty-year marriage without making specific findings that support a reduced term of maintenance.
(B) Table of guideline maintenance term (in whole months) [TABLE omitted from frontrangelegalservices.com] (c) Factors affecting the amount and term of maintenance.In any proceeding for maintenance, the court shall consider all relevant factors, including but not limited to:
(4) Temporary maintenance.
(I) In every proceeding for dissolution of marriage, legal separation, or declaration of invalidity where temporary maintenance is requested by a party, the court may award a monthly amount of temporary maintenance pursuant to the provisions of subsection (3) of this section that are relevant to a determination of temporary maintenance.
(5) Modification or termination of maintenance.
(a) Except upon written agreement of the parties, an award of maintenance entered pursuant to this section may be modified or terminated pursuant to the provisions of section 14-10-122. The court may consider the guideline amount and term of maintenance and the statutory factors set forth in subsection (3) of this section only in a modification or termination proceeding concerning a maintenance award entered on or after January 1, 2014.
(6) Security for the payment of maintenance.
(a) The court may require the payor spouse to provide reasonable security for the payment of maintenance in the event of the payor spouse’s death prior to the end of the maintenance term.
(7) Maintenance agreements – waiver – unrepresented parties.
(8) Definitions.As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires:
(I) “Adjusted gross income” means gross income as defined in paragraph (c) of this subsection (8), less preexisting court-ordered child support obligations actually paid by a party, preexisting court-ordered alimony or maintenance obligations actually paid by a party, and the adjustment to a party’s income as determined pursuant to section 14-10-115(6) (b) (I), for any children who are not children of the marriage for whom the party has a legal responsibility to support.
(I) “Gross income” means income from any source and includes, but is not limited to:
(9) Application.The provisions of this section apply only to actions in which a petition for dissolution, legal separation, or declaration of invalidity, or an action for the initial establishment of maintenance is filed on or after January 1, 2014.
Cite as C.R.S § 14-10-114
History. Amended by 2013 Ch. 176, §1, eff. 1/1/2014.
L. 71: R&RE, p. 526, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 46-1-14. L. 79: (2)(b) amended, p. 644, § 1, effective July 1. L. 98: (2)(a) amended, p. 1397, § 41, effective February 1, 1999. L. 2001: Entire section amended, p. 481, § 1, effective July 1. L. 2007: (2)(b)(IV)(A) amended, p. 107, § 2, effective March 16.
Note: 2013 Ch. 176, was passed without a safety clause. See Colo. Const. art. V, § 1(3).
Note: This section is set out twice. See also C.R.S § 14-10-114, effective until 1/1/2014.