Month: January 2017

In its Expenditures on Children by Families report, the United States Department of Agriculture estimated that it costs more than $230,000 for the average American family to raise a child from birth to adulthood. Though Colorado families may spend more or less than...

This family law blog has discussed Colorado's law of equitable division pretty often over the past few years. We've talked about how marital assets are divided up between the spouses in a divorce. Following the guidelines laid out in Colorado's statutes, the family...

There are tax consequences for both paying alimony and receiving alimony. Payers of alimony usually get to deduct the payments on their tax returns. Recipients of alimony, on the other hand, generally must include the payments in their total gross income. As with...

Unfortunately, divorce is often a hotbed of contentious issues. Spouses frequently have strong feelings on issues such as alimony, child support and property division. Few issues are more hotly disputed than child custody, however, for divorcing couples and separating...