Florida has no statutory alimony formula. This tool is an estimator: enter your dates and incomes to see your marriage-length category under Florida law, the maximum time durational alimony could run, and the statutory ceiling on the amount. It does not predict what any judge will order.
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Marriage length
12 years, 3 months
Moderate-term marriage (10 to 20 years)
Maximum durational alimony length
Up to 7 years, 4 months
60% of the length of a moderate-term marriage, per Fla. Stat. 61.08(8)(b).
Statutory ceiling on the amount
Up to $1,050 / month
The amount is set by the Fla. Stat. 61.08(3) factors, and is capped at whichever is less: the receiving spouse's reasonable need, or 35% of the difference between net incomes (61.08(8)(c)). 35% of the $3,000 income difference shown here is $1,050, a ceiling on what Party B could receive. Your actual reasonable need may be lower than this ceiling.
This is a planning estimate, not a legal guarantee of what a judge will order. It is not the actual formula a Florida court uses, because Florida law does not set one; it applies only the parts of Fla. Stat. 61.08 that are mechanical (marriage-length category, duration caps, and amount ceiling). A judge still decides whether to award alimony and its exact amount and form using the full list of factors in 61.08(3), after finding both need and ability to pay. Your actual order may differ from this estimate. For advice about your situation, consult a licensed Florida family law attorney. Virdix is a document preparation service, not a law firm.
Florida Statute 61.08 does not give courts a formula that outputs a dollar amount, the way Florida's child support guidelines do. Instead, a court first decides whether the spouse asking for alimony has an actual need and whether the other spouse has the ability to pay. If so, the court weighs the factors in 61.08(3), including the length of the marriage, the standard of living during the marriage, each spouse's age and health, income and earning capacity, and each spouse's contributions to the marriage, to decide the form, amount, and duration of alimony.
What the statute does set mechanically are the marriage-length categories in 61.08(5) (short-term under 10 years, moderate-term 10 to 20 years, long-term 20 years or longer, measured from the date of marriage to the date the petition is filed), the duration caps for durational alimony in 61.08(8)(b), and the amount ceiling for durational alimony in 61.08(8)(c): the lesser of the receiving spouse's reasonable need or 35% of the difference between the parties' net incomes. This estimator applies those mechanical rules to your dates and incomes and stops there; it does not guess at the factor weighing a judge does next.
Senate Bill 1416 rewrote Fla. Stat. 61.08 effective July 1, 2023. The biggest change is that permanent alimony is gone: courts can no longer award it in a new case. The remaining forms are temporary, bridge-the-gap (capped at 2 years, for short-term transition needs), rehabilitative (tied to a specific plan), and durational, which replaced the open-ended awards long-term marriages sometimes received before 2023 with the length and amount caps this estimator applies. The current version of 61.08 applies to petitions for dissolution of marriage pending or filed on or after July 1, 2023.
No. This tool shows what Fla. Stat. 61.08 sets as fixed boundaries (marriage-length category, maximum duration, and maximum amount), not a prediction of your actual award. A Florida judge has discretion within those boundaries and can order less, or in exceptional circumstances extend duration beyond the standard caps under 61.08(8)(b). Nothing here is legal advice.
These figures depend on accurate income and asset information, which is documented on Florida Family Law Form 12.902, the Financial Affidavit. Florida's uncontested dissolution process, where Virdix's product currently applies, is covered on the Florida overview page.
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Start my case freeNot in the sense of a formula that outputs one dollar figure. Florida Statute 61.08 does not set a calculation like the child support guidelines do. This tool is an estimator: it shows the marriage-length category your dates fall into, the maximum number of months durational alimony could run under the statute, and the statutory ceiling on the amount, not a predicted award.
A Florida judge first decides whether the requesting spouse has an actual need and the other spouse has the ability to pay. If both are shown, the court weighs the factors in Fla. Stat. 61.08(3), including the length of the marriage, standard of living, age and health, income and earning capacity of each spouse, and each spouse's contributions to the marriage, then sets the form, amount, and duration of alimony. There is no formula that produces the dollar amount automatically.
For durational alimony, the length of the award cannot exceed the length of the marriage, and it is further capped at 50% of the marriage length for a short-term marriage (under 10 years), 60% for a moderate-term marriage (10 to 20 years), or 75% for a long-term marriage (20 years or longer), under Fla. Stat. 61.08(8)(b). Durational alimony is not available at all for a marriage under 3 years. A court can extend these caps only under exceptional circumstances set out in the statute.
Yes. Senate Bill 1416, effective July 1, 2023, rewrote Fla. Stat. 61.08 and removed permanent alimony as a form of alimony a court can award. The statute now allows temporary, bridge-the-gap, rehabilitative, and durational alimony. This applies to petitions for dissolution of marriage pending or filed on or after July 1, 2023 (61.08(11)).
For durational alimony specifically, Fla. Stat. 61.08(8)(c) caps the amount at whichever is less: the receiving spouse's reasonable need, or 35% of the difference between the two spouses' net incomes. This is a ceiling, not a formula that sets the actual award; the court still applies the full factor list in 61.08(3) to land on a specific figure within that ceiling.
Rehabilitative alimony under Fla. Stat. 61.08(7) helps a spouse become self-supporting through redeveloping old job skills or gaining new education or training. Florida law requires a specific, defined rehabilitative plan to be part of the record before a court can award this form of alimony, so a request without one is missing a required piece, not just a weaker one.
No, because Florida law does not provide one. This tool applies only the parts of Fla. Stat. 61.08 that are mechanical (marriage-length category, duration caps, amount ceiling); the final decision on whether to award alimony, and how much, remains a judge's determination based on need, ability to pay, and the full list of statutory factors. This is a planning estimate, not legal advice or a prediction of any court's ruling.
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