The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) marked a sea change in the longstanding federal alimony regime that allocated tax responsibility for alimony such that the payor of alimony would receive a deduction from his or her taxable income for alimony payments made and that the recipient of alimony would include such payments in his or her taxable income. Specifically, the TCJA repealed §§71 and 215 of the federal Tax Code, which provided the basis for the existing system, and provided instead that alimony would be non-deductible to the payor and tax-free to the recipient for separation agreements or divorce judgments going into effect on or after Jan. 1, 2019 or qualifying modifications to such agreements or judgments effectuated after Jan. 1, 2019.