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Committee approves technical alimony changes, including cohabitation timing and tax treatment (SB 59)
Summary
First substitute to SB 59 passed committee votes (first-substitute adoption and favorable recommendation) after sponsors explained cohabitation timing and tax-treatment clarifications; some members dissented, citing policy concerns about when alimony should end.
Sponsors presented first substitute SB 59 to the Committee on Feb. 23. The bill clarifies two areas of alimony law: (1) it directs courts to consider periods of cohabitation during the pendency of a divorce proceeding (counting cohabitation during the actionable period rather than only at trial), and (2) it updates statutory language so judges may consider the tax treatment of alimony…
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