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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. Under the IRS’s “One taxpayer, one dependent” law, when divorced parents file their taxes separately, only one parent can claim their child as a dependent per tax…

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…

Divorce is difficult for all spouses who decide to end a marriage and divide a household, but when the spouses are also parents, separating a household also means sharing children between two homes. No aspect of divorce is as emotionally fraught as child custody. While once courts favored mothers as primary caregivers for children, today’s…

A judge’s decisions on child custody in Colorado are legally binding and enforceable. Still, Colorado courts acknowledge that sometimes circumstances substantially change. In some situations, the court may agree to alter a child custody plan based on significant long-term changes in one or both parent’s circumstances or a change in a child’s needs. Colorado Family…