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On May 23, 2023, Governor Polis signed House Bill 23-1206, Concerning Family Time for Grandparents, which is the first update to grandparents rights in Colorado in almost a decade. The bill takes effect on August 7, 2023 (i.e. on the 91st day after the May 8 adjournment of the Colorado…
“A husband hid $500,000 in bitcoin during a divorce — and got busted by a crypto hunter.” This headline from CNBC last week tells an increasingly-common story – people are increasingly comfortable using both electronic payments (e.g. Pay Pal or Zelle), as well as cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin. And since…
In the seminal 2006 C.A. case, the Colorado Supreme Court promulgated the standard for grandparent visitation rights in Colorado, harmonizing the grandparent rights statute with the “special weight” required by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Troxel, which requires “a presumption that fit parents act in the best interests of…
Appellate courts nationwide have supported the pro-vaccine position in the overwhelming majority of reported child custody cases where decision-making over immunizations for children were at issue. In our Child Vaccines article in the Colorado Family Law Guide we discuss not just Colorado decisions, but have links to cases from other…
In the early 2000s, parenting plans would sometimes include clauses which required a parent after divorce to make sure the children did not call a stepparent by a parental term such as “Dad” or “Mom.” The theory was that a child has only two parents, and elevating a stepparent in…
Colorado Supreme Court approves LLPs (Licensed Legal Paraprofessionals) as an alternative to family law attorneys in some cases! No one likes paying lawyers – including lawyers themselves who may need an attorney for their own cases. While we at Graham.Law have competitive fees, the best way to reduce legal fees…
A surprising bit of news slipped under the radar. For the first time in more than 15 years, the military is having open enrollment (also known as “Open Season”) for the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP). This gives retirees who did not select SBP at retirement the ability to change their…
Graham.Law is pleased to announce that managing partner (and your humble correspondent) Carl O. Graham has been named to Colorado Super Lawyers for family law for our fourth year in a row! I was ecstatic when I first won the award for 2020, and have repeated each year since then….
When one of the litigants fails to appear or to respond to a motion, a court can enter a default judgment, and give the other party what he/she wants without making specific findings. Except in parenting cases, and especially except for a parent wanting a relocation with children after divorce…
Colorado law allows courts broad flexibility in deciding how to divide a pension at divorce, including determining which of the pension valuation methods to use. But a recent unpublished decision from the Colorado Court of Appeals held that the valuation must be consistent, and the family law judge cannot use…
