Colorado divorce and custody, explained.
Colorado divorce and custody, explained by Aaron Herzberg — for business owners, executives, professionals, and parents. A new article most weekday mornings, each one written from the cases and linked to the practice page it belongs with.
A parenting plan is a court order, not a suggestion. Colorado gives a parent whose time is being withheld a fast-track motion, makeup parenting time, a presumption of attorney fees, and contempt.…
Half of what people believe about dividing property in a Colorado divorce is wrong, and the errors are expensive. Eight common myths, each corrected with the actual rule Colorado courts apply.…
Parenting orders are not carved in stone, but Colorado makes some changes much harder than others. Adjusting the schedule turns on best interests. Changing the primary parent requires proof of endangerment.…
The decree is signed and the fighting is not over. Colorado law offers two referees for high-conflict co-parenting — the parenting coordinator and the decision-maker — that resolve disputes in days instead of months.…
A client's guide to the motions that move a Colorado divorce or custody case: temporary orders, motions to restrict, motions to compel, interim fees, CFI and PRE appointments, contempt, emergency motions, and post-decree reallocation, with the standard and speed for each.…
Colorado has no emergency custody form. The tool is a motion to restrict parenting time under C.R.S. 14-10-129(4), which forces supervised contact and a hearing within 14 days. How it works, how it differs from a protection order, what persuades a judge, and what to do in the first day.…
Colorado judges cannot cut parenting time to punish a parent, but a pattern of gatekeeping is evidence on the factors that decide parenting time and decision-making. What interference looks like in court, the remedies short of a residence change, and the exception for a parent protecting a child.…
Colorado has no magic age at which a child chooses where to live. The child's wishes are one factor among many, weighed according to maturity — and how the court hears them matters as much as what they are.…
The months before a Colorado divorce petition is filed decide the tempo of the case. What to gather, what to separate lawfully, what the automatic injunction forbids, who to hire, and the ten mistakes that cost the most.…
When parents cannot agree on parenting time, Colorado courts often appoint a neutral investigator or evaluator. Their report becomes the center of gravity in the case — and recent reforms changed the rules they work under.…
Colorado's child support schedule now stops at $40,000 a month in combined income. Above that, the top-of-schedule figure is a floor, the court has discretion, and the number is decided by findings about the children's needs and each parent's income.…
Colorado divorce runs on mandatory, sworn financial disclosure. The duty is affirmative, it continues throughout the case, and a hidden asset can reopen a final decree up to five years later.…
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