You and your partner have made the decision to get divorced. Now it’s time to tell the kids. While no parent looks forward to this conversation, here are a few tips to help you navigate this discussion. First, you should know that research is showing that the biggest...
Holiday Self-Care Tips Whether it’s your first holiday after a divorce or your fifth, the holiday season can be difficult. Make Sure You Have a Holiday Plan Hopefully your Parenting Plan spells out the details for holiday parenting time. If not, now is the time to get...
When clients are preparing a Parenting Plan without help from an attorney, a common mistake is overlooking the children’s school residence. The Colorado Judicial Branch Parenting Plan form contains the following paragraph: I have seen Parenting Plans where this...
A common dispute after a divorce is where a child is going to attend school. This can happen when the child is a toddler or infant at the time of the divorce, especially when the parties did not have an attorney helping them with the divorce. Colorado’s form Parenting...
Unfortunately, sometimes circumstances arise that cause concern for children’s wellbeing. A Motion to Modify can take several months to resolve, which does not provide comfort if there is ongoing danger to the children. In these circumstances, Colorado law provides...
Change is constant. Unfortunately, that means that, if you have kids, you will probably need to update your parenting plan before they turn 18. The ease of this process depends on multiple factors, including how cooperative your ex-spouse is, and what types of changes...
One of the many disputes I see between ex-spouses after the divorce is a disagreement about where the children will attend school. This is especially common if the divorce happened before the children reached school age. If the parents agreed on joint decision-making,...
Many people assume that, if they have an uncontested divorce, adding attorneys to the mix will only complicate matters and cause a war. If you are one of those individuals, do not fear! While there are some attorneys who embody this stereotype, there are many others...
Each parent is entitled to parenting time, unless it would endanger the child’s physical health or significantly impair the child’s emotional wellbeing. Assuming that the exception does not apply, how does a court determine an appropriate parenting time schedule?...
I see it over and over again – at the time of the divorce, the parents are cooperating well and want flexibility in their parenting time schedule. Then, several years (or months) down the road, something changes and the parents start arguing. Maybe one parent gets...