Oregon Spousal Support Calculator

1) Transitional support: helps the recipient acquire education, training, or work experience — maximum 10 years. 2) Compensatory support: recognizes economic benefit the payor received at the recipient's expense (e.g., one spouse funded the other's degree). 3) Maintenance support: long-term support when the recipient cannot be reasonably self-supporting — typically for long marriages with significant earning disparity.

Compensatory support is unique to Oregon. Under ORS §107.105(1)(d)(A), a court may award it when one party significantly contributed — financially or otherwise — to the education, training, vocational skills, or career of the other, and the dissolution will reduce the standard of living of the contributing spouse. It compensates for the economic benefit received.

Transitional support is capped at 10 years. Maintenance support has no statutory cap and can be indefinite if the recipient's need is long-term. Compensatory support is typically set as a lump sum or fixed payment schedule tied to the economic benefit conferred.

Courts retain jurisdiction to modify transitional or maintenance support upon a substantial change in circumstances, unless the parties agree otherwise. Compensatory support is generally not modifiable once ordered.