Texas Family Code - Section 8.055. Amount Of Maintenance
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§ 8.055. AMOUNT OF MAINTENANCE. (a) A court may not order
maintenance that requires an obligor to pay monthly more than the
lesser of:
(1) $2,500; or
(2) 20 percent of the spouse's average monthly gross
income.
(b) The court shall set the amount that an obligor is
required to pay in a maintenance order to provide for the minimum
reasonable needs of the obligee, considering employment or property
received in the dissolution of the marriage or otherwise owned by
the obligee that contributes to the minimum reasonable needs of the
obligee.
(c) Department of Veterans Affairs service-connected
disability compensation, social security benefits and disability
benefits, and workers' compensation benefits are excluded from
maintenance.
(d) For purposes of this chapter, "gross income" means
resources as defined in Sections 154.062(b) and (c), disregarding
any deductions listed in Section 154.062(d) and disregarding those
benefits excluded under Subsection (c) of this section.
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 7, § 1, eff. April 17, 1997.
Renumbered from § 8.006 and amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch.
807, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2001; Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1138,
§ 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
Section: 7.007 7.008 8.001 8.051 8.052 8.053 8.054 8.055 8.056 8.057 8.058 8.059 8.060 8.061 8.101
Last modified: August 11, 2007
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