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Divorce, parenting, support, and property: the matters that decide what daily life looks like on the other side. Handled with the seriousness that deserves.

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Understanding family law in Colorado

Colorado family law is governed by Title 14 of the Colorado Revised Statutes and the Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure, with specialized rules acknowledging both the sensitivity of these disputes and the court's obligation to protect children's best interests.

These cases cover dissolution and legal separation, allocation of parental responsibilities, child and spousal support, division of property and debt, adoption and guardianship, paternity, protection orders, and post-decree modification when circumstances change.

Family matters are heard in the district court of each judicial district. The firm appears regularly in Denver, Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Douglas, Jefferson, and Larimer counties. Local rules differ by county; the governing statutes do not.

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Dissolution of marriage and legal separation

Ending a marriage, or formally separating without ending it. Colorado is a no-fault state, so the question is never who was at fault. It is how the property, the debt, the support, and the children are handled. Legal separation keeps the marriage intact on paper, which matters for immigration status, insurance, and some religious considerations.

Allocation of parental responsibilities and parenting time

What Colorado calls custody. Two separate decisions: who the children live with and on what schedule, and who has authority over decisions about school, medical care, and religion. They can be split differently, and often are. There is no presumption of an even division. The schedule follows the evidence about what serves the child.

Child support, establishment and modification

Colorado calculates support by formula, using both parents' gross incomes, the number of overnights each has, health insurance premiums for the children, and work-related childcare. Courts depart from the formula only with a stated reason. Modification requires a substantial and continuing change, which the statute defines more narrowly than most people expect.

Spousal maintenance

Support paid from one spouse to the other after a marriage ends. Colorado publishes an advisory guideline based on income and the length of the marriage, but unlike child support it is genuinely discretionary. The court weighs need, ability to pay, the standard of living, and what each spouse gave up during the marriage.

Division of marital property and debt

Colorado divides marital property equitably, which means fairly, not necessarily equally. The first fight is usually classification: what is marital, what is separate, and what began as separate but grew in value during the marriage. Retirement accounts, a business, and a house bought before the marriage are where this gets genuinely complicated.

Separation agreements and parenting plans

The documents that turn an agreement into an enforceable order. A parenting plan that is vague about holidays, exchanges, or travel is a plan that produces another hearing in eighteen months. These are worth drafting carefully even, and especially, when the two of you are getting along right now.

Protection orders in domestic violence matters

Emergency and permanent civil protection orders, and defending against one that should not have been requested. These move faster than the rest of family law, the standard of proof is lower than in a criminal case, and the consequences reach employment, housing, firearms, and immigration status.

Paternity and parentage

Establishing legal parentage where a couple was never married, or where the presumed parent is not the biological one. Parentage has to be settled before support or parenting time can be ordered, and it carries its own deadlines. This also covers parentage questions for same-sex couples and children born through assisted reproduction.

Relocation disputes

One parent wants to move far enough away that the existing schedule stops working. Colorado treats this as its own question with its own factors, and the outcome turns heavily on whether the move is proposed before or after the initial parenting orders are entered. Do not move first and ask later.

Post-decree modification and enforcement

The case after the case. Changing orders when circumstances genuinely shift, and enforcing them when the other party simply stops complying: missed support, withheld parenting time, or a property division never carried out. Enforcement has real remedies, including contempt, and they work better the earlier they are used.

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Understanding family law in Colorado

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