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Judges do not love your children

JUDGES DON'T Love Your children! At our annual Family Law Bar Associatio meeting a while back, I spoke with a good friend who also happens to be one of the local district court judges. The judges ...
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Why mediation fails.

Why Divorce Mediation Fails. Despite all the advantages of mediation, my experience has shown there are three main reasons why the mediation process fails in a divorce case. If you aware of them and ...
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Melting Pot Families

Blended families are a natural melting pot and direct product of divorce . Stepchildren, half siblings, and step siblings are all part of divorce, and it furthers the "melting pot" that has ...
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Fathers Should Stay Invovled - Pt 1

After divorce , it is important for a father's to stay involved with their children. Continued involvement with the children creates secure attachment. Secure attachment is a bond between parent ...
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Surviving the Holidays after Divorce

Surviving the holidays after or during a divorce can be a very difficult time. This is escpecially trus if you have children. Here a couple tips to make surviving the season a bit earlier. 1) ...
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211 Colorado - Health and Human Services

2-1-1 Colorado is a great resrouce for anyone going through divorce or struggling after a divorce who may need the help or assistance of local health or human service organizations, but do not know ...
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FIVE MOVIES to watch while going through divorce

Even the most most amicable divorces stir up strong emotions, especially when there are kids involved. A professional divorce mediator can often help the parties deal with both the legal aspects and ...
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Parenting Coaching

Parenting after divorce is very difficult. You and your children are exposed to stresses and anxieties that you have often never experienced before. A profession parening coach by be able to help both ...
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Coparenting with Difficult Coparent

You got through the divorce process and have seen light on the other side of the tunnel, and you were sure while in the tunnel the the light would mean smooth sailing. Now, however you find there are ...
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Parenting After Divorce

Parenting after divorce is difficult to transition into. While there is no way to completely sheild the kids from divorce, a few suggestions can make the change easier to deal with and minimize the ...
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What your kids want you to know

Too much attention is paid during a divorce to trying to figure out the perfect parenting plan often resulting the parents forgetting what is important to their children. Instead, if parents focus on ...
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Free coparenting online software

Divorcing parents know how difficult it is to keep up with ever changing schedules, information updates, and the never ending change of plans of your children. Co-Families, a software company in ...
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Car Repairs can be Extraordinary Expenses

Additional extraordinary expenses may be added pro-rata to a parent's child support obligation in a Colorado Divorce. In this age of extensive cutbacks by school districts, a situation could arise ...
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Split Overnights with Visitation

Situations involving split parenting plans require unique child support calculations in a Colorado Divorce. In a situation where there are two separate children and overnights visits with the ...
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Stipends may be Income

Expense reimbursements paid by employers may be considered income for child support or spousal support calculations in a divorce proceeding. The standard to be evaluated is whether the reimbursed ...
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Child's Income may be Considered

The income of a child may be considered in child support calculations. However, there is no bright line test or minimum income requirement that creates automatic application of a child's income in the ...
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Pension Plan Contributions Not Gross Income

Gross income is number that must be determined for each parent as a starting point for purposed of computing child support. Colorado Revised Statutes attempt to define what revenue to each party is ...
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Changes to Child Support Calculations

The Colorado legislature periodically makes changes to the child support guidelines and the methods of calculation for divorcing parties, partners who co-parent children after separation. If you ...
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Child Support Modification - 10% rule

C.R.S. 14-10-112(1)(a) allows modification of an existing child support order only upon showing that there has been a change in circumstances that are substantial on continuing since the previous ...
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Parenting Time Travel Expenses

Travel expenses in certain situations may be divided or awarded. Contact Divorce Help Center mediators to discuss your case. However, those expenses must be the cost of transporting the CHILD, not the ...
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Income Deductions for Child Support

Child support obligations are determined by applying the statutory guidelines in C.R.S. 14-10-115(7) to the parents combined adjusted gross income. "Gross Income" includes income from any source. ...
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Child Support Deviation

The child support guidelines must be followed unless there is a valid and legal reason for deviation from the presumtive child support calculation. Contact a Colorado Divorce Mediator to discuss the ...
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Parenting time disputes require mediation

Colorado law states that disputes regarding parenting time should be referred to mediation if the parties cannot resolve their disagreement. Contact a Colorado Divorce mediation attorney to discuss ...
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Overnights appropriate with gay parent

Where the trial court made no finding that father's conduct in his homosexual lifestyle endangered the child or impaired the child's emotional development, father could not be precluded from having ...
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Age Dependant Parenting Time

It is important to understand that the amount of time children need with their parents evolves over time. Consult with a Denver Divorce Mediator to assist you with this evaluation. In order to ...
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