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Spousal maintenance: five gates and a guidelines instrument
Maintenance requires one of five statutory gates (insufficient property; inadequate earning ability; a child whose age or condition precludes outside work; contribution to the other spouse's career; long marriage plus age) — and the amount and duration run through guidelines the Arizona Supreme Court adopts, applied unless the court makes a written inappropriate-or-unjust finding.
The honesty note
The guidelines instrument was most recently revised effective 2025 — verify the current edition on the official Self-Service Center before relying on any figure; this platform renders no maintenance amounts until the instrument's tables are byte-verified.
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