Process: the articles.
Everything on the blog filed under Process, newest first, with the practice page it belongs with.
- 01Forensic Accountants in a Colorado Divorce: What They Find and Cost
- 02Divorce Mediation in Colorado: How It Works, Why It Fails, and What the Research Shows
- 03Colorado Separation Agreements: Reaching a Settlement That Holds Up
- 04Keeping Children Out of the Middle of a Colorado Custody Case
- 05Temporary Maintenance vs. Permanent Orders in a Colorado Divorce
- →Divorce in Colorado, the practice page
What a forensic CPA actually does in a Colorado divorce, the disclosure and discovery tools that feed the work, the red flags that justify the expense, joint versus retained experts, and what happens when concealment is found.…
Most Colorado divorces settle. The question is whether they settle in a mediator's office in two months or on the courthouse steps after a year. How mediation works step by step, the things that sink it, what a randomized twelve-year study found, and why the neutral's courtroom experience matters.…
Most Colorado divorces end in a separation agreement, not a trial. What the agreement must contain, how the judge reviews it, why a reasonable deal is an informed one, the clauses people forget, and what can be changed later.…
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.…
Temporary maintenance keeps two households afloat while the case is pending. Maintenance at permanent orders is a different decision on different evidence, and the first number does not bind the second.…
The Sworn Financial Statement is testimony, and it becomes Exhibit 1 at temporary orders and maintenance. How to complete JDF 1111 and its schedules as a business owner or executive without understating, overstating, or leaving something off.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
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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