paired or unpaired when electron jumps to higher orbital?

If a paired electron is excited to jump to an orbital that is a higher
energy state and then fails down to a metastable state, then during either
of these states that are different from its original ground state, will its
spin still be completely compensated or will it be at least partially
susceptible to an external stimulus to allow electron spin resonance related
absorption and radiation? If it becomes partially uncompensated so as to be
susceptible to EPR techniques then how uncompensated does it become?

Thanks, George J Bugh