Texas Spousal Maintenance
Narrow gates, real ceilings — an issue-spotter
Texas maintenance is not Florida alimony: eligibility runs through § 8.051's threshold (insufficient property for minimum reasonable needs) plus one of four statutory paths, duration is capped by marriage length, and monthly amounts cap at the lesser of $5,000 or 20% of average gross income. Enter your facts; the spotter shows which statutory conditions they could satisfy — and decides nothing.
The facts you assert
What the statute's conditions say
The threshold gates everything
§ 8.051 opens with the property threshold: without asserting insufficient property for minimum reasonable needs, no eligibility path opens — that is the statute's structure, not this tool's opinion.
Duration ceiling (§ 8.054)
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No open eligibility path from the entered facts — duration ceilings attach only if a court finds eligibility (§ 8.054).
Amount ceiling (§ 8.055)
A court may not order monthly maintenance above the LESSER of $5,000 or 20% of the paying spouse's average monthly gross income (§ 8.055(a)) — a ceiling, never an entitlement or an estimate.
Issue-spotting from your entries, quoting the statute's conditions — not an eligibility determination, an amount, or a prediction. Courts also apply § 8.053's presumption against maintenance under § 8.051(2)(B) and § 8.054's shortest-reasonable-period rule; disability carve-outs can extend duration.
Authority locked — retrieved from the hash-pinned corpus
Courts decide need, eligibility, and amount. § 8.053 adds a presumption AGAINST maintenance on the ten-year path until diligent income efforts are shown, and § 8.054 requires the shortest reasonable period even inside a ceiling (disability carve-outs aside). Contractual alimony agreed between spouses is a different instrument with different enforcement — attorney territory. Legal information, not legal advice.