Colorado Maintenance
The formula is in the statute. The statute calls it ADVISORY. Both truths, computed.
Forty percent of the parties' combined monthly adjusted gross income, minus the lower income party's income, adjusted by the statutory tax factor — with the term read from the statute's own table. This platform computes the arithmetic exactly as written AND renders the characterization the statute itself insists on: the guidelines do not create a presumptive amount or term of maintenance. The court has discretion, makes findings, and decides — the number here is the statute's advisory starting point, never an entitlement.
Statute verified at render:the stored official text of C.R.S. § 14-10-114 carries the formula needles — including the statute's own words this page never drops: the guidelines are ADVISORY and “do not create a presumptive amount or term of maintenance.”
Why the badge matters.
A guideline that is a rebuttable presumption (Colorado's child-support schedule) and a guideline that is expressly advisory (this one) are different legal animals — and drafts that state an advisory maintenance number as “the statutory amount” misstate the law. This platform's Filing Check flags exactly that framing, and this calculator never produces a number without the statute's own characterization attached.
Authority locked — retrieved from the hash-pinned corpus
The gates come first, and each failure is named. The advisory guidelines cover marriages of at least three years with combined annual adjusted gross income at or below $240,000 — outside either gate, the court applies the § 14-10-114(3)(c) factors without a guideline number, and this calculator says exactly which gate closed instead of guessing. Beyond twenty years the court may award a specified or indefinite term, never less than the 120-month guideline term without specific findings. Maintenance modifies under § 14-10-122; payment machinery runs under § 14-10-117. Legal information, not legal advice.