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Depending upon how a state categorizes the property of the married people within its borders it will either be called a community property state or an equitable distribution state. Community property states assume that property owned by both of the parties to a...

Beginning shortly after Thanksgiving, Colorado residents may have noticed an increase in jewelry commercials airing during their favorite primetime shows. Many of those commercials featured happy couples sharing special moments that ended with proposals of marriage...

When parents in Colorado go through a divorce the details of their children's lives can be left up in the air. Moving from one parent's house to the other on a new schedule may disrupt the children's routines and leave them uncertain about their futures. Many children...

Either through agreement or a court-issued order, a divorcing Longmont resident may find themselves subject to an alimony obligation. Alimony, also known as spousal support, is the payment of financial support from one party to a divorce to the other, after the...

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...

Most folks in Colorado have probably heard horror stories of wealthy couples in divorce court. Recriminations and back-and-forth allegations can abound, and many suspect that each spouse is simply trying to grab as big a slice of the marital property as possible....

Quite a few children in Boulder County depend on child support payments to cover everyday expenses such as food, clothing and school supplies. Everyone knows that child support payments should be made. What isn't so well-known is exactly how a child support payment...