CS/HB 455 - Alimony

• Establishes presumptive alimony guidelines using formulas based on years of marriage and income difference between parties, with low end calculated at 0.015 × years of marriage × income difference and high end at 0.020 × years of marriage × income difference (capped at 20 years).

• Creates rebuttable presumption against alimony awards for marriages of 2 years or less unless court finds clear and convincing need; for longer marriages, alimony is presumptively awarded within calculated ranges unless parties agree otherwise.

• Prohibits courts from modifying the duration of alimony awards once established and provides that combined alimony and child support cannot exceed 55 percent of payor's net income.

• Establishes that remarriage of alimony obligor is not a substantial change in circumstances and makes subsequent spouse's financial information inadmissible in modification proceedings.

• Allows modification based on obligor's retirement if reaching Social Security eligibility age or customary retirement age for their occupation, with temporary suspension of payments allowed while petition is pending.