Arizona Spousal Maintenance Calculator
This calculator provides a broad estimate of monthly spousal maintenance and duration under Arizona's statewide calculator worksheet.
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Spousal Maintenance in Arizona is Estimated
1.Income and Family Size
The worksheet starts with each PartyAn individual, entity, or the state that either brings the lawsuit or is required to respond to the lawsuit. See ARFLP Rule 3(f).Read more about Party's actual and attributed annual IncomeAs defined by A.R.S. § 25-500(6), “any form of payment owed to an individual, regardless of source, including wages, salaries, commissions, bonuses, workers' compensation, disability payments, payments pursuant to a pension or retirement program and interest.” See also child…Read more about Income, then applies the statewide standard-of-living model for the selected family size.
2.Amount Range
The amount estimate uses the worksheet's low, midpoint, and high expenditure ranges, adjusted for income proportions, inflation, and higher-IncomeAs defined by A.R.S. § 25-500(6), “any form of payment owed to an individual, regardless of source, including wages, salaries, commissions, bonuses, workers' compensation, disability payments, payments pursuant to a pension or retirement program and interest.” See also child…Read more about Income factors.
3.Duration
The duration estimate is based on the number of complete months from the date of marriage through the Date of ServiceThis is the date a Petition is actually served on the Responding party. The date of service is significant in three respects legally: (1) for all petitions, it is the date from which the time for the Responding Party to file an Answer begins to run. (2) For divorce, legal…Read more about Date of Service of process, plus the worksheet's Rule of 65The Rule of 65 from the Arizona Spousal Maintenance Guidelines, that, when the criteria is met, the Court may order a duration different than the one suggested by the Guidelines—the only duration affected is the one for marriage of 16 years or more, and the range for those…Read more about Rule of 65 eligibility test.
4.Legal Review
This calculator is an estimate only. The court can consider facts and circumstances that are not captured by a web form.
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