Property Division: the articles.
Everything on the blog filed under Property Division, newest first, with the practice page it belongs with.
- 01The Marital Home in a Colorado Divorce: Value, Buyout, or Sale
- 02Dividing Debt in a Colorado Divorce: Who Pays and Who the Bank Chases
- 03Protecting Your Colorado Business While the Divorce Is Pending
- 04When Separate Property Becomes Marital in a Colorado Divorce
- 05Valuing Art, Jewelry, and Collectibles in a Colorado Divorce
- →Property Division, the practice page
How Colorado courts value the house, why equity and net proceeds are different numbers, the three ways the home leaves the marriage, the mortgage that stays in both names, and what to do about a 3 percent rate nobody wants to give up.…
Colorado courts divide debt the same way they divide assets, but a decree binds only the spouses. How marital debt is classified and allocated, what happens to mortgages, guarantees, tax debt, and student loans, and why indemnity clauses matter.…
How a Colorado business owner keeps the company running during a divorce: the injunction's ordinary-course exception, why the other spouse rarely gets equity, buy-sell clauses, protecting company records, key people, and financing the buyout.…
Colorado recognizes only four kinds of separate property, and a spouse can give any of them to the marriage with a deed, an account form, or a check. How the presumption works, what the case law says about rebutting it, and why separate does not mean protected.…
Fair market value is not what you paid, not what it is insured for, and not what it would cost to replace. How Colorado courts value art, jewelry, wine, cars, and household goods, when to hire an appraiser, and how to divide a collection without burning it down.…
A pension is often the largest asset in a Colorado divorce and the one most often divided by guesswork. Hunt's three methods, the time rule and its limits, how an actuary prices a pension, the QDRO choice that decides who is paid at death, and the rules for PERA, FPPA, military and federal plans.…
Most states exclude a professional's personal goodwill from the marital estate. Colorado does not. How the two kinds of goodwill differ, why Colorado divides both, how appraisers separate them, and what an owner can legitimately do.…
Three kinds of retirement accounts, three different transfer mechanisms, and a dozen drafting details that decide who actually gets the money. A practical guide to pensions, 401(k)s, and IRAs in a Colorado divorce.…
A rental in a Colorado divorce is three things at once: an asset to value, an income stream that drives support, and a deferred tax bill. How courts characterize it, who runs it during the case, and the three realistic exits.…
A home bought before the wedding starts out as separate property in Colorado, but the growth during the marriage is marital and one signature on a deed can hand the whole thing to the marital estate. What the court will do, and what a prenup could have changed.…
Half of what people believe about dividing property in a Colorado divorce is wrong, and the errors are expensive. Eight common myths, each corrected with the actual rule Colorado courts apply.…
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.…
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