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.
Where a divorce can be filed, where the money can be decided, and where the children's case belongs are three different questions. Colorado's 91-day domicile rule, the UCCJEA home-state rule, UIFSA, and what to do if you are served from another state.…
Executive pay does not fit neatly into "property" or "income." Colorado law apportions unvested equity, allocates bonuses to when they were earned, and expects counsel to keep the same dollar from being counted twice.…
Colorado leaves the standard of value in divorce undefined — and that choice, not the percentage debate, is what decides whether marketability and control discounts apply to your company.…
Colorado rebuilt child support on March 1, 2026: a schedule that now runs to $40,000 a month, a credit for every overnight in place of the 93-night cliff, a self-support reserve tied to the minimum wage, and new low-income tiers. What changed, who feels it, and what it means for an existing order.…
When a business owner divorces in Colorado, the valuation is often the largest and most contested number in the case. Goodwill counts, the buy-sell agreement is not the last word, and the valuation date can move the result by seven figures.…
Nearly every Denver-area court sends divorcing spouses to mediation before a contested hearing. Here is how a session actually runs, what makes it work, what it cannot fix, and how the process changes when one spouse is abusive or controlling.…
Between filing and decree, somebody pays the mortgage, runs the company, and funds the case. Temporary orders govern that interval — and for business owners, they set the trajectory of everything after.…
Colorado courts must decide who carries the children's health insurance in every child support order. How the premium enters the worksheet, how uninsured bills are split from the first dollar, and what happens when a parent loses employer coverage.…
A two-year marriage goes through the same Colorado divorce process as a twenty-year one. What changes is the economics: maintenance is rare, courts lean toward restoring premarital positions, but appreciation is still marital.…
Colorado replaced custody with the allocation of parental responsibilities, split into parenting time and decision-making. How each half works, joint versus sole decisions by category and who breaks a tie, why the majority-time label matters, the factors in plain English, and how orders change.…
A Colorado decree revokes most gifts to a former spouse, but not the ones that matter most: ERISA retirement plans and anything you never updated. What the statute does, what it misses, the risky months between filing and decree, and how to protect the children's inheritance.…
What you owned before the marriage, inherited, or were given can stay yours. Most claims to it are lost through ordinary household habits rather than through anything a court decided.…
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