As a divorced parent, it’s critical to understand the terms and conditions of your parenting plan. This is particularly true when it comes to child custody. Not only does your understanding make it easier to co-parenting, but it also allows you to provide your...
How the Air Force will help service member parents sharing custody
Starting a family is never easy, but those actively serving in the United States military often have more challenges than their civilian counterparts. Service members have very little control over the duties they must perform or even the location where they have to...
Ideas of what to include in a Colorado parenting plan
Sharing custody with your ex may not seem like a pleasant prospect, but it is reality for most divorced couples in Colorado. With the limited exception of circumstances where a parent doesn't want their parental rights or the courts deem that their ongoing involvement...
Best interest of the child-how parenting time is determined in Colorado
If you have children and you're in the midst of a divorce, you know that child custody can be one of the more contentious aspects between soon-to-be-ex-spouses. You've also likely heard the phrase "best interest of the child." Best interest refers to cases involving...
How To Modify Child Support Orders
A divorce can significantly change your life, and it continues to change afterwards. Change looks different for everyone, whether it means a promotion, a new job, a new house or even a new marriage. If your life continues to change, the court orders filed at the...
Are LGBT Parents Discriminated Against In Child Custody Cases?
It is not uncommon for lesbian, gay, bi and transgender people to come out later in life. This may come at the end of, or lead to the end of, a straight marriage or relationship. When that relationship has produced a child, there will be a child custody case that will...
Can I Get Sole Custody Of My Child?
In a child custody dispute, it is only natural to want to protect your relationship with your child. You want to ensure that you have as much time as possible with your child going forward. You may even want to have sole custody and not allow the other parent to spend...
What Factors Determine Child Support Payments?
When a child is born to an unmarried couple, or when parents get a divorce or separate, child support is likely to become an issue. While many aspects of family law in Colorado are complex, determining child support payments is relatively straightforward. This is...
What Happens To Frozen Embryos In A Divorce?
Divorce comes with many emotional and unique issues. Some of those issues are so unique that there are no clear laws in place to determine the outcome. Such is the case in a matter that has recently reached the Colorado Supreme Court, in which a divorcing husband and...
Can Child Custody Be Granted To More Than Two Parents?
Families come in all shapes and sizes. Not all families fit the one mother/one father mold. When those families go through a divorce, child custody arrangements need to be designed accordingly. Sometimes that means breaking new ground. According to an article from...