Once a foreign support order is registered in Colorado, it is enforceable in Colorado courts just as a Colorado child support or alimony order.
Once a petition for dissolution has been filed, there are numerous ways one of the spouses can seek to get it dismissed, with or without the agreement of the other.
Colorado needs personal jurisdiction to enter an initial support order, and under UIFSA has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction only if certain factors are met.
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.