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“Once fixed, the property retains its character as separate or community until changed by agreement of the parties or by operation of law.”

In doing so, the court noted the presumption that “any property acquired by either spouse during marriage is community property, unless demonstrated otherwise by clear and convincing evidence.”

§ 25-211(A); –78 (1979).

(“Once fixed, the property retains its character as separate or community until changed by agreement of the parties or by operation of law.”).

When property is characterized as separate, it remains separate unless and until its characterization is “changed by agreement of the parties or by operation of law.”

(“On appeal we view all evidence and reasonable conclusions therefrom in the light most favorable to supporting the decision of the trial court regarding the nature of property as community or separate.”); (“We view all the evidence and reasonable

“On appeal, we view all evidence and reasonable conclusions therefrom in the light most favorable to supporting the decision of the trial court regarding the nature of property as community or separate.”

Yet we also recognized, as in earlier decisions, that this goal “must be balanced with some realistic ap *524 praisal of the probabilities that the receiving spouse will in fact subsequently be able to support herself in some reasonable approximation of the standard of living established during the marriage.” Rainwater, 177 Ariz. at 503 , 869 P.2d at 179 ( , ).

ed-term maintenance as a means to promote a diligent effort to become self-sustaining, we have repeatedly cautioned that this goal “must be balanced with some realistic appraisal of the probabilities that the receiving spouse will in fact subsequently be able to support herself in some reasonable approximation of the standard of living established during the marriage.” , ( , overruled on other grounds in Schroeder)-, , (“the receiving spouse’s ability to earn income must be considered in light o