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Employment-related incentives is a complicated maze, with bonuses, stock options, deferred compensation, employer matching into retirement plans, etc. Sometimes they count as income, sometimes they don’t. And sometimes they are divisible property, while at other times they are not. The Court of Appeals, in what appears to be a case…

Although less common than it once was, with long-term marriages courts may still order maintenance for an indefinite period of time – i.e. with no expiration date. While such awards may colloquially be known as “lifetime” maintenance, that’s not strictly speaking accurate, because either former spouse could still file a…

Modern families do not necessarily match the nuclear family stereotype, and it’s a safe bet that June & Ward Cleaver (from “Leave it to Beaver”) would have never heard the term “Psychological Parent.” But when it comes to children, the saying “It takes a Village” often applies, even for child…

The last time we wrote about PERA was during the Covid pandemic, when the deadline to submit orders was temporarily lifted. And now, this is one of those cases where the PERA Co-Beneficiary statute seems clear enough that I’m surprised it was litigated all the way up to the Colorado…

Disputes over Child Vaccines As we have discussed repeatedly in prior blog posts, the issue of child vaccines is getting more contentious each year. And as an increasing number of people show a willingness to act contrary to medical advice, combined with many states treating Covid vaccines different from other…

A recent decision from the Colorado Court of Appeals regarding Stock Appreciation Rights (SARs) seems rather obvious – perhaps that’s why the decision was not published. What is a SAR? With a Stock Appreciation Right, a company can pay employees with a bonus linked to the price of the company’s…

The Colorado Court of Appeals last week issued a new ruling on the interplay between imputation of income and voluntary unemployment which will make bringing contempt cases for non-support more complicated. (Note that this particular case involved voluntary underemployment, not voluntary unemployment, but the analysis is the same either way)….

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…

It’s been a long time coming – Child & Family Investigators have been governed by Chief Justice Directive 04-08 for the past 17 years, but the Colorado Supreme Court has been silent on regulating those appointed to serve as a Parental Responsibility Evaluator (PREs). Until now. And it took a…

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….