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Was there any doubt? Since the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic, courts have taken a crash course in conducting video hearings. With the El Paso and Teller County Courthouses closed to routine business for most of the past year, short of seeing justice delayed the only alternative has been to…

Ohio Trial Court Ordered Procreation Ban for Child Support Arrears When browsing my typical news sites, this headline from a Courthouse News article about a child support arrears case literally jumped off the page at me: “Ohio Supreme Court Rules Man Can’t Be Ordered to Abstain From Procreation.” It kind…

What is a High Income or High Asset Divorce? High-asset, high-income divorces present issues that attorneys and clients alike may not necessarily consider in a “normal” divorce case. And as we explain below, cases involving affluent clients differ from other cases from the very start, in how the process is…

What is Colorado’s Maintenance Formula? The Colorado alimony calculator applies the advisory maintenance formula found in Colorado’s maintenance statute (). The statute provides judges in a divorce or legal separation proceeding with an advisory-only calculation to consider under the following conditions: The spouse’s combined incomes is not greater than $240,000/yr…

Sadly, domestic violence and child abuse are facts of life for some families. And as we discuss in our Domestic Violence article in the Colorado Family Law Guide, as well as in a prior blog about the impact of violence on child custody, violence and abuse have very real impacts…

Suspend License to Enforce Child Support State Child Support Agencies have a lot of arrows in their quivers to enforce child support arrears – contempt of court proceedings, as well as a variety of civil measures such as garnishing wages, seizing tax returns or bank accounts, suspending professional licenses, triggering a passport…

You want to know how to really hurt your parenting case? Be a bad co-parent – if you marginalize the other parent, make unilateral decisions, withhold information or communicate abusively to him, the judge will hold this bad co-parenting against you, even if you’re otherwise a good parent. As a…

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…

Even though justice is blind, image is still important. Wear proper court
attire & act respectfully to avoid hurting your Colorado family law case.