{"id":110,"date":"2022-08-05T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homestead.askmattshaw\/?p=110"},"modified":"2025-12-19T10:53:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:53:20","slug":"does-remarriage-affect-child-support-or-spousal-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shawsanders.com\/wordpress\/does-remarriage-affect-child-support-or-spousal-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Remarriage Affect Child Support or Spousal Maintenance?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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When a couple gets divorced, one of the parties may be subject to a child support or spousal support order. These court orders are legally-binding and must be obeyed. However, there are situations that can change child support and spousal support orders. One of these situations is the remarriage of either spouse. If you are divorced and your or your spouse is getting remarried, it is important to know how the remarriage could affect child support and spousal maintenance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spousal Maintenance Terminates Upon the Recipient\u2019s Remarriage<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Spousal maintenance, also referred to as spousal support or alimony, is intended to provide financial aid to a spouse who suffers financial harm due to divorce. Some spousal maintenance obligations are temporary while others are indefinite. If the recipient of spousal support gets remarried, his or her entitlement to maintenance payments automatically terminates. If the paying spouse made payments after the remarriage, he or she is entitled to reimbursement for those payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the payor of spousal support gets remarried, there is no automatic impact on his or her spousal maintenance obligation. However, it is possible that the payor\u2019s remarriage could influence spousal maintenance modifications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Child Support and Remarriage of Either Spouse<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Although child support payments are made to the child\u2019s parent, the money is intended to support the child. Because of this, a child support recipient\u2019s remarriage does not necessarily influence the paying spouse\u2019s child support obligation. A stepparent is not required to help support his or her stepchild. However, there have been cases in which a parent\u2019s child support obligation was affected by the recipient\u2019s remarriage. In one case, the Illinois Appellate Court stated that trial courts may consider the income of a parent\u2019s spouse when determining an appropriate child support award. This means that a recipient spouse\u2019s remarriage could potentially influence the paying spouse\u2019s obligation. If the paying spouse or \u201cobligor\u201d gets remarried, this is unlikely to have an impact on his or her child support obligation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you are divorced and your or your spouse is getting remarried, it is important to know how the remarriage could affect child support and spousal maintenance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,15,13],"tags":[2,5,6,40,4],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divorce","category-maintenance","category-support","tag-divorce","tag-divorce-attorney","tag-divorce-lawyer","tag-maintenance","tag-saint-charles"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawsanders.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawsanders.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawsanders.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawsanders.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawsanders.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawsanders.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":925,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawsanders.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawsanders.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawsanders.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawsanders.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}