WISCONSIN Part 65

Can a maintenance award be modified or terminated?

If the receiving spouse dies, remarries, or begins living in a marriage-like relationship, maintenance can be terminated. If the paying spouse dies, maintenance will also be terminated. The spouses can also agree that maintenance cannot be modified in either amount or duration. That agreement would be enforceable by the court. Otherwise, maintenance can always be modified based on a substantial change in the circumstances of either party.