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Child support is determined here in Colorado by the calculation of each party’s gross income, the calculation of the amount of overnights that each party has with the children or child, the amount of money that’s spent for daycare, for health insurance, for extraordinary expenses. When all of those numbers are calculated, the court will […]

In Colorado, anytime you have a divorce or an allocation for parental responsibilities case that’s filed and obviously involves children. You do have to take what’s called a parenting after divorce class. Watch the video to learn more. 

Finding a divorce attorney who fits you is one of the most important things that you can do in your divorce and for yourself in the divorce process. You will be spending a significant amount of time communicating with this individual, working with this individual, and relying on this individual’s advice, guidance, and help throughout […]

A parenting plan in Colorado is the overall plan by which each party determines and takes its parenting time or its time with each child. It’s based initially on the best interests of the minor children or the child. What that means is the ability of the parents to co-parent, the ability of the parents […]

In Colorado you do not need to be legally separated before you file for divorce. We’ve had many instances where the parties continue to live together in the same household before, during and even through the very end of a divorce process. I wouldn’t encourage people to continue to live together just because of the […]

In Colorado, property and assets are one of the many things that a court has to consider in completing a divorce and the divorce process. Assets specifically are divided equitably, is what the statute requires, and what in practice that means is usually a fairly equal division of the assets between the parties. Watch the […]

Proper preparation of your divorce or your allocation case is critical. Initial preparation involves making sure that your attorney or your other representative really understands the case, understands all of the facts, the circumstances, your interaction with the children, the children’s interaction with you, the relationship that you have with your significant other. That first […]

In order to get divorced in Colorado, the specific grounds that you need to be able to assert to a court is that the marriage is irretrievably broken. When a marriage is irretrievably broken, a court will inquire whether there really is no saving a marriage, that it really is over. The court doesn’t get […]

The ability to move out of state is one of the more difficult problems that a court addresses here in Colorado. The general rule is that you cannot move out of state if you have some other parental relationship or parental responsibilities matter that has been decided here. If a child has lived here the […]

In any divorce in Colorado, if there are children, a court will always consider child custody or the parental responsibilities for each of your children or the child that’s in the marriage. It’s a mandatory requirement and is one of the major things that a court considers and has to determine in finalizing any divorce.