The Process: the articles.
Everything on the blog filed under The Process, newest first, with the practice page it belongs with.
- 01Texts, Screenshots, and Secret Recordings: What Is Admissible in a Colorado Divorce
- 02Who Pays the Attorney Fees in a Colorado Divorce?
- 03Temporary Orders in Colorado: Who Pays the Mortgage During the Divorce
- 04When Your Ex Won't Follow the Parenting Plan: Colorado's Enforcement Toolbox
- 05Modifying Custody in Colorado: Two Very Different Standards
- →Divorce in Colorado, the practice page
Modern divorces are litigated in screenshots. Texts and social media are fair game if authenticated, deleting posts can become its own problem, and secret recordings sit on a legal line that can turn evidence into a crime.…
"I can't afford to fight — my spouse controls all the money." Colorado's fee-shifting statute exists for exactly that situation: it lets the court order one spouse to fund the other's representation so the case turns on the merits.…
A Colorado divorce takes months, and temporary orders govern life in the meantime — the house, the bills, the children, support, and fees. They also set a status quo with quiet momentum toward the final result.…
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.…
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.…
Colorado divorce runs on mandatory, sworn financial disclosure. The duty is affirmative, it continues throughout the case, and a hidden asset can reopen a final decree up to five years later.…
Most Colorado divorces end in a conference room, not a courtroom. Mediation, binding arbitration, med-arb, and collaborative practice each offer a different trade of speed, privacy, and control — and the choice is strategic.…
Colorado still recognizes marriage without a license — so the first fight in some cases is whether a marital estate exists at all. The Hogsett test, the evidence that decides it, and the paper that prevents it.…
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