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Turning Down the Heat: using a PC/DM to resolve your summertime disputes

With summer approaching, many families are finding themselves back in a repeating cycle of seasonal disagreements. Trying to schedule vacations, sign kids up for camps, activities, and sports, and plan for the upcoming academic year is stressful enough without adding complicated co-parenting dynamics. You know fighting with your ex about these things isn’t good for your child, but by the…

To Move or not to Move?

Over the past few years, the housing market in the Denver metro area has exploded.  Housing prices, rent, and the cost of living in and around Denver continue to hit all-time highs.  For many, the dream of home ownership in Denver has become out-of-reach and the thought of relocating to a less expensive area is becoming more appealing. While the…

Parenting Plans in Colorado

In any domestic relations case where the court has jurisdiction over the parties’ minor children, i.e., a Petition for Allocation of Parental Responsibilities (“APR”) or a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage (“divorce”), or Legal Separation, one of the main issues will be determining a parenting time schedule that is in the child’s best interest. In 1999, Colorado stopped using the…

Teenagers and Parenting Time: the 900 lb gorilla

It is a common misconception that, once your child reaches a certain age, they can automatically decide who they want to live with. In Colorado, before a child reaches the age of 18, there is not a “magic” age that gives an adolescent or teenager the autonomy to make a decision with regard to which parent they would rather live…

Predicting the Future: parenting plans

If 2020 taught us anything, it is that you can never anticipate every possible “what if” in your life.  For parents, 2020 was wrought with complications, including cancellation of extracurricular practices and activities, closures of daycare facilities and summer camps, quarantine requirements, distancing from caretakers (like grandparents), and of course, facilitating virtual learning.  While it is impossible to account for…

What should I expect at a virtual hearing?

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the majority of judicial districts in Colorado shut their courthouse doors in an effort to minimize the spread of the virus. As a result, many parties needing to attend hearings for the judge to resolve their family law disputes were disappointed to learn that their hearing had been cancelled. As the pandemic has…

Summer Time, and the Living’s Easy-Hopefully.

Most kids think summer is the most wonderful time of the year. The thought of being out of school for three months is supreme even to receiving holiday gifts. What is better than spending the day doing fun activities and no homework? For co-parents, or families going through a divorce, summer parenting time can be challenging. Regular parenting time and…

Parental alienation in your family law case

Recognized earlier but first given a name in the 1980s by child psychiatrist Dr. Richard A. Garner, parental alienation occurs when a parent turns a child against a targeted “alienated” parent through words, actions, or behaviors which cause the child to reject, fear, or avoid contact with the targeted parent. In these scenarios the victim or intended victim is referred…

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