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 scrapped the 93-overnight child support cliff on March 1, 2026. Every overnight now earns a credit from a statutory table. How the old rule worked, what replaced it, worked examples at several overnight counts, and why counting accurately now matters in every case.…
One worksheet instead of two, the overnight cliff replaced by a curve, a guideline ceiling of $40,000 a month, and discretionary tax exemptions — what the rebuilt C.R.S. 14-10-115 means for high-income parents.…
Once a move is allowed, the hard part is writing a plan that keeps a child connected to a parent hundreds of miles away. What a workable Colorado long-distance plan contains, who pays for travel, and which state keeps the case.…
In a hard-fought Colorado custody case the judge can appoint an attorney whose only client is the child's best interests. What a CLR does, how it differs from a CFI, a PRE, or the old guardian ad litem, who pays, and how to conduct yourself once one is on the case.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
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