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Even so, the court appropriately explained in the decree that the purpose of spousal maintenance is “to achieve independence for both parties and to require an effort toward independence by the party requesting maintenance.”

(“[T]he current aim [of spousal maintenance awards] is to achieve independence for both parties and to require an effort toward independence by the party requesting maintenance.

The purpose of spousal maintenance is to “achieve an independence for both parties and to require an effort toward independence by the [spouse] requesting maintenance.”

(noting that the “aim [of spousal maintenance] is to achieve independence for both parties”).

The aim of spousal maintenance “is to achieve independence for both parties and to require an effort toward independence by the party requesting maintenance.” (1989); (recognizing that, whenever possible, an order for spousal maintenance “should promote a transition toward financial independence”).

§ 25-327(A); (“The question whether a substantial and continuing change in circumstances occurred .

As the superior court noted, the purpose of spousal maintenance is “to achieve independence for both parties and to require an effort toward independence by the party requesting maintenance.”

At the same time, the court should aim “to achieve independence for both parties and to require an effort toward independence by the party requesting maintenance.” (“[M]aintenance orders, whenever possible, should promote a transition toward financial independence.”).

§§ 25-319(C), -327(A); Waldren, 217 Ariz. at 175, ¶ 9.

(“If the purpose of spousal maintenance is rehabilitation, the duration of the award at the time of decree represents a prediction of when self- sufficiency will be accomplished.”).

A. Changed Circumstances ¶24 The goal of spousal maintenance “is to achieve independence for both parties and to require an effort toward independence by the party requesting maintenance.”

v. Hayden, -27, ¶ 17, -21 (2005); ).

(explaining the purpose of spousal maintenance “is to achieve independence for both parties and to require an effort toward independence by the party requesting maintenance”); -04 (App. 1993) (recognizing that public policy favors limiting the duration of spousal m

(describing the goal of rehabilitative support as to achieve financial independence for both parties).

(affirming an award of spousal maintenance for an indefinite term to a wife who had found only non- lucrative work and whose expenses had increased to include chemotherapy treatment for cancer).

¶5 The purpose of a spousal maintenance award is “to achieve independence for both parties and to require an effort toward independence by the party requesting maintenance.”