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 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.…
Colorado's 91-day waiting period is a floor almost no one hits. Here is the Rule 16.2 timeline, realistic Denver-metro ranges for agreed and contested cases, what adds months, what shortens the case, and a month-by-month picture.…
A Colorado divorce settlement is rarely taxed when it is signed. The tax arrives later, and it lands on whoever took the low-basis assets. Here is how basis, the home sale exclusion, retirement transfers, maintenance, and the child tax credit actually work after a divorce.…
Colorado divides property without regard to fault, but a spouse who wastes marital money on an affair, gambling, or transfers to family can be charged for it. Here is what counts, what does not, and how courts handle it.…
Two very different investigations sit behind two similar acronyms. Picking the wrong one costs months — and produces a report that cannot answer the question you needed answered.…
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