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Understanding alimony, also known as spousal support, is a crucial part of planning for your financial future during or after a divorce. Whether you’re the payer or the recipient, our Alimony Support Calculator provides a quick and reliable estimate based on Texas family law guidelines.

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How Our Alimony Calculator Works

Our Alimony Support Calculator takes the guesswork out of determining potential spousal support by analyzing key financial factors, including:

Income of Both Spouses – Enter your monthly earnings to determine the financial disparity.
Marriage Duration – Texas law considers the length of the marriage when awarding spousal maintenance.
Child Support Obligations – If child support is involved, this may impact the final alimony award.
Health & Employment Considerations – The calculator accounts for cases where one spouse may be unable to work due to health or caregiving responsibilities.

Who Can Use the Alimony Calculator?

Divorcing Spouses – Understand potential alimony obligations before negotiations.
Family Law Attorneys – Use as a quick reference tool for consultations.
Mediators & Financial Planners – Help clients make informed financial decisions.

Understanding Alimony in Texas

In Texas, alimony (spousal maintenance) is awarded only under specific conditions. The court evaluates:

Texas courts also impose limits on alimony, typically capping payments at 20% of the paying spouse’s gross monthly income, not exceeding $5,000 per month.

Why Use Our Alimony Support Calculator?

Alimony Negotiation & Legal Considerations

While the calculator provides an estimate, actual alimony awards depend on various court factors and negotiations. If you’re going through a divorce, it’s essential to speak with an experienced family law attorney to understand your rights and options.

At The Law Office of Bryan Fagan, PLLC, our legal team specializes in divorce, alimony, and family law matters in Texas. We can help you:

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Texas family law resource

Texas Alimony Calculator

Check whether Chapter 8 eligibility may apply, then see the statutory maximum and the duration framework.

This tool screens the Texas statutory framework. It does not predict what a judge would award.

Texas family law resource

Texas Family Code Chapter 8 · reviewed 2026-09-09

Calculator Verified

Inputs, logic, and results tested against the current Texas Chapter 8 framework.

Statutory maximum

The lesser of the §8.055(a) dollar cap or the statutory percentage of qualifying average monthly gross income, as defined by §8.055(a-1)

Texas family law resource

Texas Family Code Chapter 8

Texas does not use a formula to predict a spousal-maintenance award.

This calculator answers three narrower questions instead: whether the Chapter 8 eligibility framework may apply, what statutory maximum can be calculated from qualifying income under §8.055(a), and which duration framework applies under §8.054(b) or the §8.054(a)(1)(A)(ii) tiers.

Learn how Texas spousal maintenance eligibility, amount, and duration work

Three questions this calculator helps you understand

Texas answers these separately, and the answer to one does not decide the others. The calculator works through each in turn and shows all three.

Eligibility screen

Whether the statutory framework may apply. Texas requires both a property condition and one of four statutory routes.

Statutory maximum

The maximum a court may order under §8.055(a), calculated from qualifying income as defined by §8.055(a-1). A ceiling, not a prediction.

Duration Framework

The applicable framework under §8.054(a)(1)(A)(ii) and its companion tiers, or the continuation rule at §8.054(b) for the disability-based routes.

Why dates matter

Why we asked for dates

Texas duration limits turn on the length of the marriage, and the tiers meet at exact boundaries. The calculator asks for the date of marriage and the date the divorce became final, or is expected to, and derives the length itself — so you are never asked to round.

Worked examples

Marriage length is not the only eligibility question. Three of the four statutory routes carry no ten-year requirement. Each example below is produced by the calculator itself.

Fifteen-year marriage

Ten-year inability-to-earn route

Eligibility

A statutory route may apply

Route

Ten-year inability-to-earn route

Duration

Up to 5 years

Produced by the calculator

Four-year marriage

Family-violence route — no ten-year requirement

Eligibility

A statutory route may apply

Route

Family-violence route

Duration

Up to 5 years

Produced by the calculator

Six-year marriage

Incapacitating-disability route — no fixed period

Eligibility

A statutory route may apply

Route

Incapacitating-disability route

Duration

While the criteria continue

Produced by the calculator

Twenty-year marriage

Property condition stops the screen

Eligibility

The framework may not be satisfied

Statutory maximum

Not calculated

Duration

Not calculated

Produced by the calculator

Frequently Asked Questions

Can a calculator tell me if I qualify for alimony in Texas?

No. A calculator can screen the statutory framework against the facts you enter and show you what Chapter 8 permits. Whether a court finds the eligibility conditions satisfied is a legal determination that depends on evidence.

What income counts in a Texas alimony calculation?

§8.055(a-1) defines gross income for this purpose with two closed lists. It includes wages and other compensation for personal services, interest, dividends and royalties, self-employment income, net rental income, and other income actually received. It leaves out several categories, and the calculator shows you exactly what was and was not counted.

Does Texas use a 20 percent alimony rule?

Not as a prediction. §8.055(a) sets a maximum: a court may not order more than the lesser of the statutory dollar cap or the statutory percentage of the paying spouse’s average monthly qualifying gross income. That is a ceiling on what a court may do, not an estimate of what it will do.

How does the calculator determine the duration framework?

From the length of the marriage and the route that applies. The tiers meet at exact boundaries, and where a marriage falls precisely on one the calculator says so rather than choosing between two periods. Where a disability-based route applies, §8.054(b) supplies a continuation rule instead of a fixed period.

Does the dollar cap mean I will receive that amount?

No. It is the ceiling, and it only binds when the percentage figure would be higher. The amount a court orders depends on the §8.052 factors, the evidence, and the court’s determination.

Why doesn’t this calculator give me an estimated award?

Because Texas law does not provide an average-payment formula for predicting what a court will award. §8.052 lists 11 factors and assigns none of them a weight, so any single predicted figure would be invented rather than calculated.

Legal review & authorship

Legal framework reviewed by Bryan Fagan

Texas family law attorney · Founder, Law Office of Bryan Fagan, PLLC

This calculator is part of the Law Office of Bryan Fagan, PLLC’s Texas family-law resource library. A calculator can screen the statutory framework. Our attorneys evaluate the facts, the evidence behind them, how property is characterised, and the strategy a particular case calls for — the questions a calculator cannot decide.

Your results are a starting point

We'll help you understand what comes next.

The calculator explains the statutory framework. An attorney can weigh the evidence behind each eligibility route, address disputed facts, chracterise separate and community property, and advise on strategy and how the law applies to your actual case.

Your answers stay in your browser. · No personal information is required to see your results. · This tool provides general information, not legal advice.

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