SPOUSAL MAINTENANCE

Alimony, nonsupport of spouse, Minn. Statutes 2025 609.375

Answers, generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.005

Arrearages

Contempts, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.68, 518A.39

MFIP caregivers, Minn. Statutes 2025 142G.20

Occupational licenses, suspension, Minn. Statutes 2025 214.101

Payment of, choice of law governing, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.604

Public assistance applicants or recipients, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.81

Recreational licenses, suspension, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.68

Attorney fees

Generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.14

Hearings for delay, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.313

Responding tribunals, duties, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.305

Attorney general, duties, generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.308

Attorneys, private counsel, employing, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.309

Awards, orders, generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.27

Choice of law, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.604

Cohabitation by maintenance obligee, modification, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.552

Collections, see Enforcement of law under this topic

Contempts

Arrearages, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.68, 518A.39

Failure to pay, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.71

Forms, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.552

Income withholding, violations, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.73

Medical support and insurance coverage, violations, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.73

Temporary orders and restraining orders, violations, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.131

Contested cases

Income-withholding orders, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.501

Registered orders, procedure to contest validity or enforcement, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.606, 518C.607

Cost-of-living adjustments based on, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.68

Costs and disbursements (courts)

Court awarded, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.14

Generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.313

Responding tribunals, duties, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.305

Data, classification, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.70

Death of party, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.552

Decrees

Generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.005

Modifications, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.39

Definitions

Exemptions (creditors remedies), Minn. Statutes 2025 552.01

Garnishment, Minn. Statutes 2025 571.921

Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.101, 518C.102

Disclosure, nondisclosure in exceptional circumstances, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.312

Discovery, assistance with, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.318

Disregards, Minnesota family investment program (MFIP), Minn. Statutes 2025 142G.31

Duty of support, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.101

Earnings, spousal maintenance defined as, executions (creditors remedies), Minn. Statutes 2025 550.15

Enforcement of law

Administrative procedures, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.502

Convicted persons, obligations, Minn. Statutes 2025 243.23

Exemptions, public assistance recipients or applicants, good cause noncompliance, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.81

Nonpayment of maintenance, enforcement methods, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.68

Orders, see same under this topic

Summary executions, Minn. Statutes 2025 552.01 to 552.06

Support enforcement agencies, see same under this topic

Evidence

Failure to obey order, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.71

Procedures, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.316

Rules of evidence, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.316

Expenses, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.14, 518C.305, 518C.313

Extradition

Conditions of, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.802

Governor, duties, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.801

Grounds, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.801

Failure to pay, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.71

Fees, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.14, 518C.305, 518C.313

Forms

Cost-of-living adjustments, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.68

Modification of orders or decrees, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.39

Health and accident insurance, medical support, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.73

Hearings, attorney fees, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.313

Immunity, petitioners, limited immunity, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.314

Inappropriate tribunals, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.306

Income

Definitions, Minn. Statutes 2025 142E.01, 256D.02, 518C.101

Information about, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.28

MFIP, treatment participants, Minn. Statutes 2025 142G.03

Income withholding

Cooper/Sams volunteer ambulance program, Minn. Statutes 2025 144E.47

Enforcement method for nonpayment of maintenance, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.68

Firefighters relief associations, Minn. Statutes 2025 424A.02

Hennepin County supplemental retirement program, Minn. Statutes 2025 383B.51

Judges retirement plan, Minn. Statutes 2025 490.126

Legislators retirement plan, Minn. Statutes 2025 3A.13

Minnesota State Retirement System, Minn. Statutes 2025 352.15

Notice requirements, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.68

Orders, see Income-withholding orders under this topic

Public employees retirement system, Minn. Statutes 2025 353.15

Teachers retirement, Saint Paul, Minn. Statutes 2025 354A.11

Teachers Retirement Association, Minn. Statutes 2025 354.10

Income-withholding orders

Administrative enforcement, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.502, 518C.507

Contest by obligor, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.506

Contested cases, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.501

Employer compliance with orders of another state, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.502

Employer immunity from civil liability, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.504

Foreign states, recognition of orders of, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.501

Multiple orders, compliance with, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.503

Noncompliance penalties, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.505

Notice, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.57

Registration for enforcement

Confirmed orders, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.608

Contested cases, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.606, 518C.607

Effect of registration, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.603

Generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.601

Notice of, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.605

Procedures, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.602

Initiating tribunals, duties, generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.203, 518C.304

Injunctions, temporary orders and restraining orders, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.131

Interstate Family Support Act, see Uniform Interstate Family Support Act under this topic

Judgments

Execution by public authority, see Public authorities' summary executions, support judgments under EXECUTIONS (CREDITORS REMEDIES)

Generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.005

Satisfaction, Minn. Statutes 2025 548.15, 548.17

Unpaid maintenance, notice, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.68

Jurisdiction

Continuing jurisdiction, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.205, 518C.206

Foreign jurisdictions, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.310

Indian tribes, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.310

Modification of orders of another state, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.613

Nonresidents, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.201

Orders, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.206

Simultaneous proceedings in another state or foreign country, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.204

Law, choice of, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.604

Liability, nonsupport, Minn. Statutes 2025 609.375

Medical support and insurance coverage, orders, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.73

MFIP participants, assignment of rights, Minn. Statutes 2025 142G.20

Missing persons, receivers, duties, Minn. Statutes 2025 578.14

Modifications

Cohabitation by maintenance obligee, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.552

Decrees, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.39

Forms, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.552, 518A.39

Issuing tribunal, notice of, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.614

Jurisdiction, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.552, 518C.613

Notification of address or residence change, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.68, 518A.27

Orders, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.39

Retirement, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.552

Scope and procedures, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.552

Motions, cost-of-living adjustments, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.75

Nonresidents, jurisdiction, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.201

Notice requirements, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.68

Obligees

Definitions, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.101

Medical assistance recipients, eligibility, extension, Minn. Statutes 2025 256B.0635

MFIP participants, medical assistance, eligibility extensions, Minn. Statutes 2025 256B.0635

Notice received, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.68, 518A.27

Remarriage, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.552

Obligors

Change of address or residence, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.68, 518A.27

Definitions, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.101

Financial data provided to public authorities, matching programs, Minn. Statutes 2025 13B.06

Leaving state, receivers for, Minn. Statutes 2025 578.14

Notice received, Minn. Statutes 2025 289A.50

Sequestration of personal property, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.71

Tax refunds, withholding, Minn. Statutes 2025 289A.50

Orders

Adjustments, data classification, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.70

Contents of, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.27

Cost-of-living adjustments, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.68, 518A.75

Definitions, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.101

Domestic abuse protection orders, Minn. Statutes 2025 518B.01

Forms, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.27

Generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.552

Income withholding, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.57

Medical support and insurance coverage, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.73

Modifications, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.552, 518A.39

Notice of, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.57

Notice of address or residence change, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.68, 518A.27

Restraining orders, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.131

Security for payments, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.71

Support orders, see same under this topic

Temporary maintenance, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.62

Temporary orders, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.131

Parents, award as support money, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.27

Parties to suits

Death of party, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.552

Private agreements, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.552

Rights, notice received, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.68

Payments

Choice of law governing, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.604

Cost-of-living adjustments, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.68, 518A.75

Credit for, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.209

Death of party, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.552

Enforcement methods for nonpayment, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.68

Escrow account, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.58

Income of ineligible MFIP household members, disregards, Minn. Statutes 2025 142G.31

Income withholding, see same under this topic

Medical support and insurance coverage, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.73

Notice requirements, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.68

Public agency, payments to, notice, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.68

Receipt and disbursement of, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.319

Security, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.71

Temporary maintenance awards, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.62

Petitions

Generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.005, 518C.311

Support orders, established, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.401

Pleadings

Generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.005, 518C.311

Service of, Rules of Civil Procedure, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.39

Power of attorney, see Family maintenance under POWER OF ATTORNEY

Proceedings

Generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.301

Simultaneous in another state or foreign country, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.204

Putative spouses, rights, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.055

Receivers and receivership, sequestration of obligor's personal estate and real estate, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.71

Registering tribunals

Defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.101

Notice given, registration of support or income-withholding orders, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.605

Remarriage of obligee, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.552

Remedies, Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.103

Responding state, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.101

Responding tribunals, duties, generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.203, 518C.303, 518C.305

Rules, notice, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.68

Rules of Civil Procedure of district court, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.005

Satisfaction of judgment, see Judgments under this topic

Separate maintenance, generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.005

Sequestration, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.71

Service of process

Modification of orders, pleadings, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.39

Notice of order for withholding of maintenance payments, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.68, 518A.57

Simultaneous proceedings, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.204

Spousal support orders, see Support orders under this topic

State information agency, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.310

Stipulations, modification of maintenance, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.552

Support enforcement agencies

Administrative procedures, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.502

Duties, generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.307

Payments received, disbursements, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.319

Support orders

Administrative enforcement, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.502

Enforcement, jurisdiction, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.206

Petition to establish, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.401

Registration for enforcement

Confirmed orders, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.608

Contested cases, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.606, 518C.607

Effect of registration, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.603

Generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.601

Notice of, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.605

Procedures, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.602

Temporary maintenance, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.62

Temporary support, Domestic Abuse Act, Minn. Statutes 2025 518B.01

Termination, death or remarriage, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.552

Tribunals

Communications between, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.317

Defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.101, 518C.102

Inappropriate, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.306

Initiating tribunals, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.101, 518C.203, 518C.304

Issuing tribunals, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.101

Payments received, disbursements, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.319

Registering tribunals, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.101, 518C.605

Responding tribunals, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.203, 518C.303, 518C.305

Trustees, appointment, receipt of payments for remittance, dissolution of marriage, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.63

Uniform Interstate Family Support Act

Child support, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.901

Citation, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.905

Definitions, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.101

Remedies, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.103

Responding tribunals, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.303

Transitional provision, Minn. Statutes 2025 518C.902

Unpaid support, Minn. Statutes 2025 548.091

Verification, child care assistance program, applicants, Minn. Statutes 2025 142E.03

Violations and penalties, failure to support spouse, criminal penalties, Minn. Statutes 2025 609.375

Waivers, notification of address or residence change, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.27