VERMONT Part 26

Types and Duration of Maintenance

In Vermont, spousal maintenance can be rehabilitative or permanent. Rehabilitative maintenance payments help the requesting spouse obtain education or training to find appropriate employment. These payments are temporary. The requesting spouse can’t be a student forever at the obligated spouse’s expense. Permanent maintenance payments continue until there is a court order that terminates or changes them. They may continue even after the recipient spouse remarries because remarriage does not always improve a spouse’s financial circumstances.