While vaccines may be a raging debate in certain political circles, most family law courts which have ruled on the issue favor immunizing children.
No matter how bad the other parent, being a good co-parent will help your Colorado child custody case. Turning the other cheek is in your self-interest.
Bad co-parenting never helps. It hurts the kids, and eventually it hurts your child custody case. Learn what not to do - unless you want to lose.
Upon finding a parent has committed domestic violence, child abuse or sexual abuse resulting in the conception of the child, the Court must consider additional protections for the child.
In more complex cases, the court may appoint a parenting expert (PRE, CLR, CFI) to investigate parenting, and issue a report parenting recommendations.
Colorado law allows grandparents to seek visitation, or even custody in some situations, but deference to parents is a high burden to overcome.
Federal law requires parental consent for minor children to travel abroad or obtain passports.
A parent needs the other’s consent or permission from the Court to relocate children. Different standards apply depending upon when the relocation is occuring.
Parenting time and decision making can be modified if the change is in the best interest of the children, though sometimes “endangerment” is required.
Colorado courts apply the best interests of the child standard to allocate decision-making over major issues (education, health, general welfare).
In determining parenting issues, the judge considers statutory factors pertaining to the best interests of the children, not the best interests of the parents.
Discusses typical parenting schedules for parents, including equal parenting time, for parents who are local or more distant from each other.
A paternity case in Colorado will establish parentage, or the child’s legal father, who is not necessarily the biological father.
We love our cats & dogs, however under Colorado law they are not children, but property subject to division like any other asset.
Before Colorado can enter parenting orders, it must have UCCJEA jurisdiction, which typically requires that it be the child’s home state for 182 days.
If the fertility clinic agreement does not address disposition of embryos at divorce, Colorado has no bright line rule, but balances the spouses’ interests.