Unemployment as a ground for reduction of maintenance payments

There are several cases in which a person subject to the payment of a certain amount of maintenance may request a reduction of the amount to be paid. In this specific case we will deal with the situation of unemployment as one of the causes that may qualify for requesting a reduction of the amount to be paid.

When a person becomes unemployed, he/she usually suffers a significant reduction in his/her monthly income, and it is this reduction in income that can determine that a modification of the amount to be paid can be requested in court, since circumstances have arisen that substantially modify the conditions that led to the establishment of a specific amount for those specific conditions.

When you become unemployed and your income is reduced, you can ask for the amount to be modified under the previously established argument and on the understanding that it will not be necessary to establish a new framework of regulatory conditions for the separation or divorce, but rather a modification of the established conditions.

The resulting new amount will depend very much on each individual case, but it is usual that there will be an equal percentage reduction in the amount to be paid as in the percentage reduction in monthly income.