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title: "Alimony Modification"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/civil-law-en/alimony-modification-en"
field: "Civil Law"
description: "Alimony modification: reduction and increase on changed circumstances and release from the spousal maintenance obligation. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-07-09"
updated: "2026-10-15"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Alimony Modification

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/civil-law-en/alimony-modification-en

## About this service

Alimony modification is the legal procedure by which an amount established by court or fixed by agreement changes according to what has happened in the parties' lives since the amount was set. The Civil Code of Georgia regulates this sphere along two distinct axes: alteration of the amount in parent-child alimony relationships on account of a change in material or family circumstances, and release of a spouse from the maintenance obligation, or its modification, on special grounds. This page explains what circumstances create a ground for modification, who may bring the claim and how the court assesses these circumstances.

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### When can the alimony amount be changed?

When the payer's or recipient's material or family situation changed after the court established the amount.

### Who may seek reduction?

A parent paying alimony for a minor child; in the fixed-sum regime the court acts at an interested person's request in both directions.

### Can a spouse be released from the obligation?

Yes — for a short marriage, unworthy conduct, or disability caused by alcohol, narcotics or an intentional crime.

### What does the court assess?

Both parties' material and family situation comparatively — the chronology of the change and its fit with the existing amount.