{"id":1408,"date":"2019-09-11T10:44:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T15:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texasdivorceattorneyblog.com\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2021-09-30T13:38:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T18:38:40","slug":"spousal-maintenance-awards-in-texas-divorce-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/spousal-maintenance-awards-in-texas-divorce-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Spousal Maintenance Awards in Texas Divorce Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A court in a Texas divorce case may only order spousal maintenance if certain conditions are met.\u00a0 The court must then consider relevant factors in determining the duration, amount, and manner of the payments.\u00a0 The other spouse may challenge a maintenance award if there is insufficient evidence to support a finding of eligibility for maintenance or if the trial court abused its discretion in ordering the specific award.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/texas\/tenth-court-of-appeals\/2019-10-18-00183-cv.pdf?ts=1567685645\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent case<\/a>, a husband challenged a maintenance award and the property division in his divorce.<\/p>\n<p>Under Tex. 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Code Section 8.051, a spouse may receive spousal maintenance if he or she cannot earn enough income to meet his or her \u201cminimum reasonable needs\u201d due to certain specified circumstances.\u00a0 In this instance, the applicable provision of the statute provides that a spouse may be eligible for maintenance if he or she does not have the ability to make sufficient income to meet his or her minimum reasonable needs and has been married for at least 10 years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/spousal-maintenance-awards-in-texas-divorce-cases\/#more-1408\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A court in a Texas divorce case may only order spousal maintenance if certain conditions are met.\u00a0 The court must then consider relevant factors in determining the duration, amount, and manner of the payments.\u00a0 The other spouse may challenge a maintenance award if there is insufficient evidence to support a finding of eligibility for maintenance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alimony","category-divorce"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Spousal Maintenance Awards in Texas Divorce Cases &#8212; 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