Category: Child Support

Colorado law makes it clear that parents have rights, but those rights come with extensive parental responsibilities. When you divorce the other parent of your children, the courts have to decide how to split up those parental rights and responsibilities. Sometimes, if you get more parenting time, your ex will have an obligation to pay…

When you had your child, you probably started planning ahead for their future needs almost immediately. That may have even included plans for college. Now, however, you’re getting divorced. Child support is likely to become a big part of your expenses, and you are already wondering how you’ll manage — especially once college starts. When…

Every biological parent has an obligation to take care of their child unless they sign over their parental rights. A judge generally orders non-custodial parents to pay child support to cover their child’s basic necessities. It’s often difficult for parents to understand what might fall under this umbrella. What are the basic expenses that child…

The child support that you get probably only covers a small amount of the costs that you incur every month while taking care of your kids. While getting some support from your ex is better than getting no support at all, it can feel very frustrating to have to scrape by while your ex only…

When you divorced, child support payments were set based upon your financial situation at the time. However, this year, you lost your job and have only been able to pick up work that pays less. It seems unreasonable to expect you to pay the same as when you were a high earner. Regardless of whether…

Even though Colorado has standard child support guidelines which are supposed to make child support orders predictable and fair, they do not always make figuring child support easy. For example, many Colorado residents will have some special situation that makes calculating their income more difficult than just referring to a recent paycheck. For child support…

Each year many parents in Colorado face an issue that can cause stress and contention: child support. Whether the parents of the child in question were ever married or not, a split in the relationship will likely lead one of the parents to make a claim for child support from the other parent. A demand…

Whether two Colorado parents are married, separated, or divorced, they are both expected to contribute to the financial needs of their children. That means that if the parents live apart from each other they must work out an arrangement to share money between themselves that is dedicated to the needs of their kids. The legal…

When parents in Colorado divorce, they may be worried about the process of negotiating child support. Unfortunately, media depictions of adversarial divorces may be the cause of this concern. While court battles between a divorcing couple may attract public interest, the reality is that many parents can amicably negotiate child support payments between themselves. Even…

Colorado residents who are seeking child support may need to establish paternity. This is true if the alleged father of the child was not married to the mother at the time of conception or birth. In most cases, DNA tests are used to establish paternity because of their high degree of accuracy. Tests are generally…