Updated September 3, 2026. Quick answer: Kansas’s maintenance statute has no enumerated factors list. It grants a "fair, just and equitable" allowance in whatever form and structure the court chooses, with no statutory age/health/duration checklist, despite widely repeated claims online that it does.
The rule that changes the answer in Kansas
Under K.S.A. § 23-2902: “A decree under K.S.A. 23-2711, and amendments thereto, may award to either party an allowance for future support denominated as maintenance, in an amount the court finds to be fair, just and equitable under all of the circumstances.”
“Maintenance may be in a lump sum, in periodic payments, on a percentage of earnings or on any other basis.”
What this means for duration
No statutory duration formula or length-of-marriage threshold in this section; the decree may make maintenance modifiable or terminable on conditions the decree itself sets.
One statutory limit does exist, and it sits in the next section of the same article rather than in the maintenance section itself: Under K.S.A. 23-2904: “In any event, the court may not award maintenance for a period of time in excess of 121 months.”
Why this matters for a later-life divorce
Multiple secondary sources circulate a detailed list of Kansas maintenance factors (earning capacity, marriage standard of living, length of marriage, age and health) attributed to this statute; that list does not appear in the actual codified text of K.S.A. 23-2902; it reflects case-law interpretation of "fair, just and equitable," not statutory language.
Read it yourself
Read the full official text before relying on any figure here. Alimony law is fact-specific and this rule is only one input to a court’s decision, not a guaranteed outcome. This is a source-backed planning guide, not individualized legal advice.
Read directly from the official Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes site (ksrevisor.gov), bypassing an earlier AI-summarizing fetch that had produced the inaccurate factors-list claim; the raw official HTML was checked directly. All five sections of Article 29 (K.S.A. 23-2901 through 23-2905) were fetched and searched this session, which is where the 121-month limit in 23-2904 was found.
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