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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…

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“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…

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…

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…

Colorado Maintenance Guidelines Not Written in Stone Colorado’s maintenance statute has an alimony formula applicable at divorce, but as the Colorado Court of Appeals constantly reminds the family law bar – and bench – the statutory maintenance guidelines contained in are not presumptive, only advisory (i.e. almost like a suggestion, and…

“Adequate Financial Support” No Longer Adequate Per AFI 36-2906 While all of the branches of the U.S. Armed Forces require their personnel to provide temporary family support to family members during separation, the Air Force family support standards in AFI 36 2906 were, for a long time, the only ones…

Your Family Support Obligation & Covid-19 Even before Gov. Polis issued a statewide stay-at-home order, many families were already struggling with how to handle child custody orders and Covid-19. The updated stay-at-home order makes it clear that parenting exchanges are not suspended, and that parents should be compliant with any court…

Workers Compensation & Property Division Any property acquired during a marriage is presumed to be marital property subject to division, even if it is only in one spouse’s name, with limited exception.  The court can determine that certain property is premarital or is separate property not subject to division. Spouses…