All Roll Calls
Yes: 141 • No: 11
UtahS.B. 592026 General SessionSenateWALLET
Alimony Amendments
Sponsored By: Lincoln Fillmore (Republican)
Signed by Governor
FamilyMarriage/DivorceJudicial OperationsRevenue and Taxation
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Living with a partner ends alimony
Beginning May 6, 2026, proven cohabitation bars alimony, including temporary support, and requires Utah courts to end existing alimony orders. Cohabitation means regularly sharing a home in a romantic or romantic-sexual relationship during the divorce case or after the decree. The paying spouse must seek termination within one year after knowing, or having reason to know, about it. The rule applies even when the relationship ended before the request was filed.
Stronger alimony rules for caregiving spouses
Beginning May 6, 2026, Utah courts presume alimony should equalize living standards after marriages lasting at least 10 years. The receiving spouse must have significantly lost work experience under an agreement to care for the paying spouse’s minor child. Courts can reject this starting rule for good cause and must make specific factual findings. It cannot be used to change an award when the divorce petition was filed before May 1, 2024.
Remarried couples combine years for alimony
Beginning May 6, 2026, Utah courts generally combine marriage lengths for couples who divorced and remarried each other. This sets the alimony time limit when the later divorce petition was filed on or after January 1, 2026. Each marriage runs from its legal start to its divorce petition; the gap between the earlier petition and remarriage is excluded. Courts can refuse to combine the periods when the evidence shows it is more likely than not unfair. Combining the periods does not reopen the earlier divorce or property division.
Retirement supports requests to change alimony
Beginning May 6, 2026, retirement counts as a substantial change that supports a request to modify alimony. This rule covers divorce decrees entered on or after May 12, 2020. It does not apply if the decree or court findings made at that time expressly say otherwise. Retirement does not automatically change the payment amount.
Courts must weigh alimony tax effects
Beginning May 6, 2026, Utah courts must consider alimony’s tax effects on both spouses. This applies in divorce cases and requests to change alimony. The law sets no payment amount or specific tax calculation.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Lincoln Fillmore
Republican • Senate
Cosponsors
Paul A. Cutler
Republican • House
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 2/27/2026
Senate/ uncircled
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/27/2026
Senate/ concurs with House amendment
Yes: 24 • No: 1
Senate vote • 2/27/2026
Senate/ circled
Yes: 0 • No: 0
House vote • 2/26/2026
House/ substituted
Yes: 0 • No: 0
House vote • 2/26/2026
House/ passed 3rd reading
Yes: 55 • No: 0
House vote • 2/23/2026
House Comm - Favorable Recommendation
Yes: 5 • No: 4
House vote • 2/23/2026
House Comm - Substitute Recommendation
Yes: 6 • No: 3
Senate vote • 2/17/2026
Senate/ passed 3rd reading
Yes: 22 • No: 2
Senate vote • 2/13/2026
Senate/ passed 2nd reading
Yes: 24 • No: 1
Senate vote • 1/27/2026
Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation
Yes: 5 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Governor Signed
3/23/2026Senate/ to Governor
3/3/2026SenateSenate/ received enrolled bill from Printing
3/3/2026SenateSenate/ enrolled bill to Printing
3/2/2026SenateEnrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
3/2/2026Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
3/2/2026Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
3/2/2026Senate/ signed by President/ sent for enrolling
2/27/2026SenateSenate/ received from House
2/27/2026SenateHouse/ to Senate
2/27/2026HouseHouse/ signed by Speaker/ returned to Senate
2/27/2026HouseHouse/ received from Senate
2/27/2026HouseSenate/ to House
2/27/2026SenateSenate/ concurs with House amendment
2/27/2026SenateSenate/ uncircled
2/27/2026SenateSenate/ circled
2/27/2026SenateSenate/ placed on Concurrence Calendar
2/26/2026SenateSenate/ received from House
2/26/2026SenateHouse/ to Senate
2/26/2026HouseHouse/ passed 3rd reading
2/26/2026HouseHouse/ substituted
2/26/2026HouseHouse/ 3rd reading
2/26/2026HouseHouse/ 2nd reading
2/23/2026HouseHouse/ comm rpt/ substituted
2/23/2026HouseHouse Comm - Favorable Recommendation
2/23/2026
Bill Text
Enrolled
3/2/2026
Substitute #2
2/25/2026
Substitute #1
2/19/2026
Introduced
12/30/2025