In determining the amount and duration of maintenance Domestic Relation Law section 236B(6)(a) provides that the New York court must consider the following factors:

1. the income and property of the respective parties including marital property distributed pursuant to subdivision five of this part;
2. the duration of the marriage and the age and health of both parties;
3. the present and future earning capacity of both parties;
4. the ability of the party seeking maintenance to become self-supporting and, if applicable, the period and training necessary to become self-supporting;
5. reduced or lost lifetime earning capacity of the party seeking maintenance as a result of having foregone or delayed education, training, employment, or career opportunities during the marriage;
6. the presence of children of the marriage in the respective homes of the parties;
7. the tax consequences to each party;
8. contributions and services of the party seeking maintenance as a spouse, parent, wage earner, and homemaker, and to the career or career potential of the other party;
9. the wasteful dissipation of marital property by either spouse;
10. any transfer or encumbrance made in contemplation of a matrimonial action without fair consideration; and
11. any other factor which the court shall expressly find to be just and proper.

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