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While the federal minimum wage remains stuck at the same $7.25/hr it has been since 2009, many states have now left that figure in the dust, Colorado included. The Colorado Department of Labor has announced that on January 1, 2022 the state minimum wage will increase to $12.56/hr, from the…

Capital gains counts as income for purposes of both child support, (5)(a)(I)(N), and maintenance, (8)(C)(I)(N). We even have a full article on capital gains and other investment income in the Colorado Family Law Guide discussing the various ways courts have interpreted this provision, and how they calculate capital gains. But…

Last month the Colorado Court of Appeals considered the appropriateness of a trial court including in a party’s income undistributed business earnings never actually paid to him, or “phantom income.” In Hills, the husband had a 2% partnership interest in a company. but as an “economic unit partner”, he was…

What is a High Income or High Asset Divorce? High asset & high income divorces have issues which attorneys and clients alike may not necessarily think about in a “normal” divorce case. And as we explain below, cases involving affluent clients differ from other cases from the very start, both…

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)……

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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…

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…

When the parents of a child separate, Colorado law provides for the payment of child support. Child support is directed by a mathematical formula set forth in . While the amount of support is affected by almost a dozen factors, by far the most important are the incomes of mother…

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…