On May 7, 2021, Governor Polis signed into law HB 21-1031, which modifies several statutes to clarify that trial courts still have jurisdiction to modify certain types of family law orders while a case is up on appeal. Normally, once a party has appealed a case, the trial court is…
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…
What is Jurisdiction? For a case to be decided in Court, that court needs to have jurisdiction over the people in the case (“personal jurisdiction”), and the type of case at issue (“subject-matter jurisdiction”). These rules can be complicated, especially in the area of child custody jurisdiction, and are the…
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Robert Weeks
05/26/2019
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