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Personal jurisdiction is one of those concepts that causes people’s eyes to glaze over—even lawyers’. It brings back memories of our Civil Procedure class in law school, having to analyze decades-old U.S. Supreme Court cases that discuss what minimum contacts are required to haul an out-of-state respondent into court in…

Yes. And thank you for reading the world’s shortest blog post, with a question answered in just one 3-letter word. But being a lawyer, the answer does require more explanation. OK, more seriously, the process for a pregnant spouse to obtain a divorce in Colorado may be more cumbersome, but…

I try to avoid political screeds in my posts – that’s not why people visit a law firm website, and there are plenty of political commentators out there who do punditry far better than I do. But given that no-fault divorce is only under attack from a specific political segment,…

Divorcing couple battles over frozen embryos. This is a legal headline family law attorneys have seen repeatedly throughout the years, and with the expansion of IVF technology, courts are trying to lay out coherent rules to follow for disposition of frozen embryos in a divorce. Three years ago we wrote…

Colorado is one of a shrinking minority of states which recognizes common law marriages. But going into the marriage is easier than dissolving it – there is no such thing as a common law divorce in Colorado. People may figure that they entered into a common law marriage without going…

Family law attorneys in Colorado don’t often have cases where there is an issue as to whether a marriage was irretrievably broken. We’ve blogged about the irretrievable breakdown element before, and in my career, I’ve seen probably a dozen times where one spouse tries to dispute the marriage was broken….

Earlier this year, we wrote a blog post on the issue of “Covenant Marriages“, which are an attempt in some states to let spouses agree at the time of marriage to “opt out” of the no-fault divorce system and require a spouse to have grounds for a divorce. Colorado is…

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 In an unpublished case, Boyd, the Wife’s ex-husband from her first marriage…

Basic Asset Division in a Colorado Divorce In contrast to Community Property states where marital property must be divided equally, Colorado is a “marital property” state, and our statute requires that marital assets and debts be divided “equitably” (i.e. fairly), not necessarily equally. Most of the time, however, equal means…

Kanye West & Kim Kardashian Tweet About Divorce Are Kanye West & Kim Kardashian really getting a divorce? No one really knows what this celebrity couple intends, apparently including themselves. But this week’s Twitter action cannot be described as a positive one in Kim Kardashian’s marriage to rap star and…