SB3231 Summary

• Establishes maintenance (spousal support) guidelines for marriages with combined gross income under $250,000 and no multiple family situations, calculating support as 30% of payor's gross income minus 20% of payee's gross income, capped so payee does not receive more than 40% of combined income.

• Sets maintenance duration based on marriage length: 0-5 years (20% of marriage length), 5-10 years (40%), 10-15 years (60%), 15-20 years (80%), and for 20+ years either permanent maintenance or duration equal to marriage length, at court discretion.

• Requires courts to make specific written findings explaining their reasoning for awarding or denying maintenance and documenting any deviation from guidelines, including what the guideline amount would have been.

• Prohibits courts from ordering unallocated maintenance and child support in final dissolution judgments unless parties agree, though such orders remain permitted in temporary pre-dissolution orders.

• Designates maintenance payments as series of judgments creating automatic liens on obligor's property for each overdue installment, and establishes that unpaid maintenance accrues simple interest.