Use this free Hawaii spousal support calculator to see how HRS § 580-47 may apply to your situation. Hawaii has no formula: the family court weighs 13 statutory factors, and the award may be for a specific period supported by evidence of training time, or for an indefinite period or until further order. The same state law applies whether your case is in Honolulu (Oahu), Maui, Kauai, Hilo or Kona (Hawaii Island) or anywhere else in Hawaii. The calculator illustrates need and ability to pay, indicates the likely duration pattern, and lists your answers against each factor.
The court may make orders for spousal support and maintenance as appear just and equitable.
HRS § 580-47(a)
Resources, independence, duration, standard of living, age, condition, occupation, employability, needs, child responsibilities, ability to pay, other, and probable duration of need.
HRS § 580-47(a)(1)-(13)
Indefinite, until further order, or a specific period supported by evidence of the time needed for training or education.
HRS § 580-47(a)
Automatically terminates support due after the date of remarriage, unless the decree or an agreement provides otherwise.
HRS § 580-51
Marital misconduct is not listed. Concealment of income or other resources is considered.
HRS § 580-47(a)
By motion with an affidavit showing a material change in physical or financial circumstances, or other good cause.
HRS § 580-47(d)
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An attorney should review your agreement.
Illustrative monthly amount
Hawaii has no formula. These are two practical building blocks of an award, not the court's method.
The court weighs these together; they are listed for discussion with an attorney, not scored.
Hawaii Revised Statutes, Chapter 580
What it says: The court may order either party to provide for the other's support and maintenance as just and equitable, must consider 13 listed factors, and may order support for an indefinite period or until further order, or for a specific duration based on competent evidence of the time needed to secure adequate training or education.
Hawaii Revised Statutes, Chapter 580
What it says: On motion supported by an affidavit setting forth in particular a material change in the physical or financial circumstances of either party, or on a showing of other good cause, the court may in its discretion grant a hearing on notice to the other party. An annotation notes that if a spouse's regular family gifts are materially reduced, that spouse may allege a material change.
Hawaii Revised Statutes, Chapter 580
What it says: Support automatically terminates for all payments due after the date of the recipient's remarriage, unless the final decree or order, or an agreement, provides otherwise.
Summaries are for general information and may not reflect later developments. Have an attorney confirm the current status of any authority, and any Hawaii appellate decisions on your facts, before relying on this page.
Hawaii calls it spousal support and maintenance and has no formula. Under HRS § 580-47(a), upon granting a divorce, or later if jurisdiction was reserved, the family court may make any further orders as appear just and equitable compelling either party to provide for the support and maintenance of the other. In ordering spousal support and maintenance, the court must consider 13 listed factors, in addition to any other relevant factors.
Section 580-47(a) lists: (1) the financial resources of the parties; (2) the ability of the party seeking support to meet their needs independently; (3) the duration of the marriage; (4) the standard of living established during the marriage; (5) the age of the parties; (6) the physical and emotional condition of the parties; (7) the usual occupation of the parties during the marriage; (8) the vocational skills and employability of the party seeking support; (9) the needs of the parties; (10) custodial and child support responsibilities; (11) the ability of the party from whom support is sought to meet their own needs while meeting the needs of the other party; (12) other factors that measure the financial condition in which the parties will be left as a result of the action; and (13) the probable duration of the need of the party seeking support.
The statute lets the court order support for an indefinite period or until further order of the court. If the court decides support should be for a specific duration, wholly or partly based on competent evidence of the time the recipient needs to secure adequate education, training or skills to become self-supporting, it can set that period. Hawaii has no duration table, so the length depends on the evidence, including factor (13), the probable duration of need.
Marital misconduct is not among the statutory factors, and Hawaii practitioners generally describe it as not considered in setting spousal support. Financial conduct is different: a Hawaii law-practice guide notes that § 580-47(a) requires the court to consider concealment of or failure to disclose income or other resources. Courts may also treat regular, consistent monetary gifts from family as part of a spouse's actual financial resources.
Under HRS § 580-51, the remarriage of the recipient automatically terminates support for all payments due after the date of the remarriage, unless the final decree or order or an agreement provides otherwise. Hawaii statutes do not list cohabitation as an automatic termination event, so a payor who believes the recipient's circumstances have changed would ask the court for modification under § 580-47(d).
Yes. Under § 580-47(d), either party may move for a hearing by filing a motion supported by an affidavit that sets out in particular a material change in the physical or financial circumstances of either party, or by showing other good cause. Whether to grant a hearing is in the court's discretion, and the other party must receive adequate notice. Keep paying until a court order or a termination event applies.
For divorce or separation instruments executed after December 31, 2018, alimony is not deductible by the payor and not taxable income to the recipient for federal income tax purposes, under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. Instruments executed on or before December 31, 2018 keep the old federal treatment unless a later modification expressly adopts the new rules. Ask a tax professional how your Hawaii return treats support.
Because Hawaii has no formula, the calculator follows the factors that drive most awards. It measures the recipient's monthly need (counted expenses minus income, factors (2) and (9)) and the payor's ability to pay (income minus expenses and child support, factors (10) and (11)) and illustrates the smaller figure. For duration it applies the statute's two options: a specific period supported by evidence of training time, or an indefinite period or until further order. It lists your answers against all 13 factors.
It does not predict an award. The family court has broad discretion.
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