Author: Carl O. Graham

The federal government has required all states to enact the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, or UIFSA, which is a law designed to sort out what was previously a jurisdictional mess between the states over who could impose, modify, or enforce child support or alimony obligations. Personal Jurisdiction – Basis…

Should Parent Seek Emergency Child Custody Order? One dilemma a parent faces when the other parent may be endangering the children is the best way to proceed legally. In Colorado, a motion for emergency child custody is known as a motion to restrict parenting. And a motion to restrict requires…

“Child support payments for disabled child” is not a headline we see much, as fortunately it is not an issue most parents need to contend with. Normally in Colorado, support ends at the later of (1) the child’s 19th birthday, or (2) the end of the month following the child’s…

Graham.Law is delighted to welcome to our ranks family law attorney John S. Nalley. Although new to our firm, John is no stranger to family law. He has worked as a family law attorney for the past decade, and prior to that was a family law paralegal for another 8…

Impute Income to Voluntarily Unemployed Spouse In most maintenance or child support cases, both spouses are working, or one has a legitimate reason to not be working, so the incomes for purposes of calculating family support are readily ascertainable. But in cases of “voluntary unemployment”, that is not necessarily the…

Colorado’s alimony statute has an expansive view of income – pretty much everything a person receives, including gifts, counts as income unless they are excluded under a provision of that statute – salary, commissions, bonuses, you name it: “‘Gross income’ means income from any source and includes, but is not…

We wrote last year on a Colorado Court of Appeals Thomas decision which held that courts should make a major decision, including school choice, when parents with joint decision-making are unable to agree. A recent unpublished decision from the appellate court holds that the choice can even include private school,…

In a recent unpublished decision, the Colorado Court of Appeals held that the trial court can consider as financial resources one spouse negotiated a sweetheart deal for discounted attorney fees in deciding whether to order that spouse, in turn, to pay attorney fees to the other party. While in most…

Security for Payment Ensures Compliance President Reagan once said about the Soviet missile program “trust by verify.” And in a wide variety of transactions you may see performance bonds, payment bonds, performance liens, security interests, etc. They ensure all are different measures to ensure security for payment. In Colorado family…

Hidden Assets and the Duty to Disclose in a Divorce The Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure require spouses in a divorce case to be fair with each other, and that includes providing exhaustive financial disclosures. And there is no hiding things – not only do the disclosures make this difficult…