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Divorce isn’t just the parting of spouses who go their separate ways, it’s also a complex legal process with necessary requirements to fulfill, including the fair and equitable division of marital assets under Colorado’s divorce law, a child custody agreement with parenting time for both spouses, child support under the state’s guidelines, and spousal support…

A divorce turns one household into two, but when it comes to filing taxes, both divorced parents cannot claim their children as dependents during the same tax year, which is why guidance from a Fort Collins Family Law Attorney can be important when post-divorce disputes continue. Under the IRS’s “One taxpayer, one dependent” law, when…

Very little about divorce is positive but in the best-case scenario of divorce, both spouses reach agreements on major aspects of a Colorado divorce such as child custody, the fair division of assets, and spousal support. Reaching a divorce settlement agreement for a judge to sign into binding orders prevents the need for an expensive…

Colorado courts have the child’s best interests as their standard in all court decisions. The state’s law for child support upholds this standard by considering it an obligation for all parents to support their children. The state bases its formula for calculating child support on the total gross income of both parents and the number…

Fathers have equal rights to child custody in Colorado as mothers, but for non-married fathers, this requires proving paternity, which is why speaking with a Fort Collins Child Custody Lawyer can be so important. Divorce is difficult for all spouses who decide to end a marriage and divide a household, but when the spouses are…