Divorce Blog

By: Jessica A. Saldin If you are faced with a permanent protection order, it is not uncommon for one of the first questions you ask yourself to be, “is this restraining order truly permanent or can it ever be modified or terminated?” As a point of clarification, this blog only addresses civil protection/restraining orders. Protection…

During a divorce proceeding, or in a post-decree modification proceeding, issues related to a spouse’s income or assets are often disputed, especially when one spouse suspects the other spouse is hiding income or assets from them. Financial Record Disclosures Typically, bank records and income information is disclosed through the mandatory financial disclosure process of Colorado…

By: Jessica A. Saldin In prior, recent blog posts, I overviewed both the impact the federal tax changes will have on maintenance (alimony) awards starting January 2019, as well as the revisions to Colorado’s maintenance and child support laws to account for the tax code changes. The purpose of this blog post is to provide…

By: Janette Jordan There are two types of name changes that occur in a family law case: the restoration of the Wife’s name to her maiden name or other previous name and the changing of the name of a minor child in a divorce or custody case. In a divorce case, if you are the…

By: W. Curtis Wiberg In a divorce case, a higher income earning spouse may be “on the hook” to pay maintenance (alimony) and child support. There are divorces, however, in which this higher-income earning spouse is in his or her sixties and nearing retirement age. Some dads have children when they are in their fifties,…

By: Stephen J. Plog In many Colorado divorce and child custody cases, it’s not uncommon to see situations in which one party or the other fails to follow the court’s orders, whether financial or child related in nature. When orders are not followed, the aggrieved party is left with various remedies to consider, one of…

By: Curtis Wiberg In our mobile society, it is not an uncommon occurrence for parents to obtain custody orders in one state, and for both parents and the children to later reside in other states, soon after. This can make resolution of subsequent conflicts involving parenting time (visitation) complicated. Every state in the country has…

By: Jessica A. Saldin Starting August 8, 2018, there will some statutory changes being made to the Colorado Uniform Dissolution of Marriage Act (the main statute/law that governs Colorado divorce and custody cases). As these changes may have major impacts on your divorce or custody case, it is important to know what they are. A…

By: Curtis Wiberg On May 21, 2018, the Colorado Supreme Court issued an opinion in the case of Parocha v. Parocha, 2018 CO 41. The case involved a wife who fled an abusive relationship in New Jersey, with her infant daughter, to reside in Colorado with her family. Once here in Colorado, the husband continued…

By: Jessica A. Bryant There has been a recent push in Colorado by parents requesting a free range parenting law. This type of law was recently passed in Utah (the first state to pass such a law). The reasoning for such type of law is to provide some sort of clarity for parents that want…