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Client Dilemma When Facing Vanity Awards You’re considering between two lawyers – one was honored by the American Institute of Family Law Distinction, the other was named a State Top 50 by the Academy of Domestic Relations Excellence. Tough choice? Not at all – I just made up both names,…
VA Disability Payments are Income The Colorado Court of Appeals just issued a new VA disability and child support decision in what the court itself regarded as an unsettled issue: “As a matter of first impression in Colorado, whether a provision of the Uniformed Services Former Spouses’ Protection Act (USFSPA)……
What is Colorado’s Maintenance Formula? The Colorado alimony calculator applies the advisory maintenance formula found in Colorado’s maintenance statute (). The statute provides judges in a divorce or legal separation proceeding with an advisory-only calculation to consider under the following conditions: The spouse’s combined incomes is not greater than $240,000/yr…
Sadly, domestic violence and child abuse are facts of life for some families. And as we discuss in our Domestic Violence article in the Colorado Family Law Guide, as well as in a prior blog about the impact of violence on child custody, violence and abuse have very real impacts…
Post 911 GI Bill Benefits – Worth a Small Fortune The Post 911 GI Bill is an awesome benefit for military members and their families. But it can also be a liability in a divorce – a GI Bill debt is created when the military member used the benefits, but did not…
You want to know how to really hurt your parenting case? Be a bad co-parent – if you marginalize the other parent, make unilateral decisions, withhold information or communicate abusively to him, the judge will hold this bad co-parenting against you, even if you’re otherwise a good parent. As a…
So much for joint title killing a separate property claim! The Colorado Court of Appeals has issued a new, and somewhat surprising decision, that separate property funds which a spouse jointly-titled still remained her separate property at divorce. In an unpublished case, Boyd, the Wife’s ex-husband from her first marriage…
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It is unusual for the Colorado Court of Appeals to issue two different decisions in the same case, in the same year, on completely different issues. But that’s what happened to the Coplins. This new case concerns how to handle an account value increase, while back in March 2020, the…
In a case of first impression in Colorado, the Court of Appeals addressed the issue of whether a trial court can order a parent to designate the other parent as representative payee of his Social Security benefits (specifically, SSDI), as part of a court order. Colorado law on treatment of…
