Live Paint to Separate Layers

Is there a way to have your paths on one layer and directly live paint the fill areas to a different layer?  I have a file with thousands of small spaces that I need to paint and I need to separate the line work (borders) from the colors (fills).  I understand the expand command but think it would be a hassle to paint everything and then expand it and reselect the fill areas to a different layer.
Thanks,
Caleb

Copy and paste in front.
Lock one and hide it, then give the other a fill of none, now paint the strokes you can chose only the strokes in the live paint options just as you can for the fills only.
Now you only have to do it once and keep them of the same layer so you can group them.

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