{"id":2821,"date":"2024-03-04T21:16:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T03:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/?p=2821"},"modified":"2024-03-28T11:13:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T16:13:22","slug":"texas-appeals-court-affirms-spousal-maintenance-modification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/texas-appeals-court-affirms-spousal-maintenance-modification\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Appeals Court Affirms Spousal Maintenance Modification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A spouse paying Texas spousal maintenance may seek modification if there has been a material and substantial change in circumstances, which may include significant change in their income.\u00a0 In a recent case, a former husband <a href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/texas\/fourth-court-of-appeals\/2024-04-22-00419-cv.pdf?ts=1709127951\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">challenged<\/a> a modification award based on the modified amount of maintenance as well as the court\u2019s denial of his request to apply the modification retroactively.<\/p>\n<p>The parties\u2019 2011 Agreed Final Divorce Decree ordered the husband to pay $1,150 in monthly spousal maintenance until the wife remarried or died or until her disability was removed or the trial court otherwise rendered a new order.\u00a0 The husband earned about $80,000 per year at the time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Motion for Modification<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The husband petitioned for modification in November after he retired the previous June.\u00a0 The court granted the modification in an order signed in June 2019, although the hearing occurred in May 2016.\u00a0 The court granted the husband\u2019s motion for reconsideration and vacated the order.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/texas-appeals-court-affirms-spousal-maintenance-modification\/#more-2821\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spouse paying Texas spousal maintenance may seek modification if there has been a material and substantial change in circumstances, which may include significant change in their income.\u00a0 In a recent case, a former husband challenged a modification award based on the modified amount of maintenance as well as the court\u2019s denial of his request [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,258,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alimony","category-modification","category-spousal-support"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Texas Appeals Court Affirms Spousal Maintenance Modification &#8212; 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