I want to talk to you a little bit about your remedies when the other parent most likely in a custody case, child custody case is not complying with the parenting orders from the court. You really have a couple different remedies that you can pursue in court, and that would be in the filing […]
This topic concerns whether Colorado is a Mother’s Rights state or a Father’s Rights state in custody actions. I’m gonna talk to you a little bit about the law when it concerns whether or not Colorado favors mothers over fathers or fathers over mothers. In fact, in Colorado, the law is gender neutral. That means […]
I want to talk to you a little bit about emergency motions and what happens when a parent files an emergency motion. Primarily, these emergency motions are about custody and visitation. So I want to give you a couple examples as to what the law says. The most common type of emergency motion is one […]
In Colorado, there are essentially two different kinds of cases that involve children. These cases are called allocation or parental responsibilities, which are actions between parents or third-parties that involve children. There are also cases filed as divorce cases where the parties have children. As a lawyer, I spend much of my time arguing for […]
Colorado is governed by the best interest standard. The best interest standard when you’re talking about children, parenting time, and decision making is what the court is going to consider in entering its orders in the absence of an agreement. Now parents are free to come up with parenting plans in custody and divorce cases, […]
Today I want to talk to you a little bit about grandparenting rights and circumstances where non-parents can have custody rights or parental responsibilities as they’re called in Colorado. Years ago, there was a case that was decided by the United States Supreme Court called Troxel versus Granville. You should look it up and […]
I want to talk to you a little bit about what you should do when you have child custody orders from another state and let’s say that the parent who has visitation is in here in Colorado and the other parent is not returning the child. What do I do then? You’ll find that the […]
I want to talk to you a little bit today about Colorado’s law that pertains to parenting, and to the best interest of the children, and questions that are asked about whether or not the law favors mothers over fathers or fathers over mothers. The best interest statute in Colorado was really crafted to not […]
I want to talk to you a little bit about what you should do when you have child custody orders from another state, and let’s say that the parent who has visitation is here in Colorado, and the other parent is not returning the child. What do I do then? You’ll find that the police […]
Today I want to discuss with you a frequently asked question that parents raise, and that is how do I get my child back from the other parent when I don’t have any court orders? And typically what happens is that if parents are married, they’re going to file divorce action and the court’s going […]
