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What is the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers? This is not a perfunctory announcement of acceptance as an AAML fellow – but we are obviously proud to announce I made it! Instead, this is a description of the process which makes the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML for short)…
Modification of Custody If In Child’s Best Interests With parenting, nothing is written in stone. In Colorado, a court can order child custody modifications (changes in parenting time or decision-making) when it is in the child’s best interests (although a change in primary residential parent requires a higher standard than…
A new Colorado Court of Appeals decision overturned the trial court’s dismissal of a child support case after the judge failed to allow a witness to testify by telephone. S.C. concerned remote testimony, or a telephonic court appearance, in an interstate child support case. Family support cases are governed by…
“Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse” A now-retired “Father’s Rights attorney” in Colorado Springs used to have this quote from American journalist Arthur Baer in his advertising. Most of his fellow family law attorneys thought it was mildly amusing, albeit while perpetuating negative stereotypes. And ironically, while…
What Is a (Cleaned Up) Case Citation? You will notice some quotes from cases we cite here at Graham.Law contain the words (Cleaned Up) after the case citation. It means we have pledged to make legal text more user-friendly by adopting a proposal which: gives legal writers the option to…
Alimony Or Child Support: Self-Employed vs Salaried Determining alimony or child support when a spouse is self-employed is more complicated than for a traditional employee. With a normal, salaried employee, all employment compensation on a W-2 counts, and it typically consists of salary (or an hourly wage), with the possibility…
Lying To A Parental Responsibilities Evaluator Is Crime in Colorado Don’t lie! That means no lying to the custody evaluator (or any other court-appointed experts, for that matter). And don’t submit false or forged documents. Not only will it hurt your divorce or parenting case, but a wrongdoer may even…
A Colorado court must have jurisdiction before terminating parental rights. But a court can grant an adoption without UCCJEA jurisdiction. How do you reconcile these two conflicting rules when an adoption also involves the termination of parental rights? The Colorado Court of Appeals addressed that very issue in a new…
Prenups and Postnups May Be Modified As long as both spouses agree, a prenuptial agreement or postnuptial agreement can be modified, or even voided. Colorado has adopted the Uniform Premarital and Marital Agreements Act, which governs both prenuptial agreements (aka “prenups”) and postnuptial agreements (postnups). The Act allows people contemplating…
George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has energized the Black Lives Matter movement, and energized the world, not just the United States, with mass protests. But this post is focused on the family law consequences of Floyd’s killing. Chauvin is now charged with murder…
