Sec. 1. The court may order maintenance in:
(1) final dissolution of marriage decrees entered under IC 31-15-2-16; and
(2) legal separation decrees entered under IC 31-15-3-9;
after making the findings required by section 2 of this chapter.
Ind. Code § 31-15-7-1
Order for maintenance
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Cannon v. Cannon (2001)
Most recently applied in Marjorie O. Lesley v. Robert T. Lesley (March 2014)
As added by P.L.1-1997, SEC.7
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.