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entered, unless continued by the court for good cause to a date
certain, or when the petition for dissolution or legal separation
is voluntarily dismissed."8
Neither the Temporary Orders nor the UDMA provides that the
unallocated family support payments must terminate on the death
of the payee spouse. We hold, therefore, that the unallocated
payments could be terminated only by "further Order of Court" as
stated in the Temporary Orders or upon the entry of the final
divorce decree or voluntary dismissal of the petition for
dissolution as provided in Colo. Rev. Stat. sec. 14-10-108(5)(c).
The termination requirement of section 71(b)(1)(D) is not
met with respect to the unallocated family support payments at
issue in this case. Since the failure to satisfy the termination
requirement is fatal to Mr. Lovejoy's argument that the
unallocated family support payments are alimony, we need not
address whether the section 71(b)(1)(B) requirement is met. The
unallocated family support payments are not includable in Ms.
Miller's income under section 71 and are not deductible by Mr.
Lovejoy under section 215.
8Temporary support orders further the purpose of the UDMA,
to mitigate the potential harm to spouses and their children
caused by the process of dissolving a marriage, by maintaining
the status quo pending final disposition of dissolution
proceedings. See In re Price, 727 P.2d 1073, 1076 (Colo. 1986).
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