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Can a father file a case to establish Colorado paternity before the child is actually born? The Colorado Court of Appeals recently approved of that practice, however to the extent the father’s goal is to try to get parenting set up before birth, that is not a realistic goal. And…

OK, it’s hard to fit the real headline into a brief title, but the actual holding of a recent Court of Appeals decision is that the trial court erred when finding the biological father to be the child’s father in a parenting case, because all presumptive fathers were not included…

Paternity cases, and determining a child’s parentage in Colorado, are governed by the Uniform Parentage Act. And courts are limited to the text of that statute. In K.L.W., the mother of twin 9-month old babies was not in dispute, but the children had two different presumptive parents under the Uniform…

Legal Paternity in Colorado Did you know that Colorado paternity law makes it possible for a man to have to pay 19 years of child support for a child that he didn’t conceive? Or that it’s possible to have spent 10 or more years caring for a child you believe…