Month: March 2013

There are a lot of reasons to get married. In our culture, most people get married because they fall in love. Other factors that motivate people to get married are religious traditions, societal expectations and for some, financial security. But one advantage of...

Colorado courts will give effect to a valid prenuptial agreement. It is uncommon for a court to declare a prenuptial agreement unenforceable. Yet it happened in a recent New York divorce case, in which the attorney for the wife persuaded the court that the husband...

In Boulder County, as in many other jurisdictions, collecting past due child support payments is often a frustrating task. Now a county in Michigan is trying a new tactic: instead of locking parents up in the county jail for failure to pay child support, sheriff's...

Colorado movie fans may know Diane Lane from her Oscar-nominated performance in 2002's "Unfaithful." Lane was in the news again recently when it was announced she had filed for divorce from actor Josh Brolin, to whom she was married for eight and a half years. Brolin...

It's no secret that adultery is the cause of many divorces in Colorado. But once a couple makes the decision to get a divorce, allegations of adultery have no bearing on custody or property determinations. Colorado is a "no-fault" divorce state, meaning that a...