Children: the articles.
Everything on the blog filed under Children, newest first, with the practice page it belongs with.
- 01Keeping Children Out of the Middle of a Colorado Custody Case
- 02Moving Out of State With the Kids: How Colorado Decides Relocation Cases
- 03Right of First Refusal in Colorado Parenting Plans: How to Draft It
- 04Fighting False Abuse Allegations in a Colorado Custody Case
- 05When Your Ex Won't Follow the Parenting Plan: Colorado's Enforcement Toolbox
- →Parental Responsibilities, the practice page
Colorado judges notice when a child is coached, questioned after exchanges, or used as a messenger, and the best-interests factors reward the parent who shields the child. What judges punish, how they hear from children instead, and how to tell the kids.…
Relocation cases are the hardest in family law, because someone's life changes profoundly whatever the court decides. Colorado's framework depends on timing: during the divorce, one set of rules; after the decree, another.…
No Colorado statute creates a right of first refusal. It exists only if the parenting plan says so, and how it is written decides whether it adds parent time or becomes the most litigated paragraph in the plan.…
An abuse allegation in a Colorado custody case triggers procedures the judge cannot skip, but the allegation does not decide the case. How claims enter a case, what the law requires the court to do, how to respond without making it worse, what a DHS finding means, and remedies when a claim fails.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
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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