child support
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Appeals court rules man cannot use ex-wife’s 16-year-old email to avoid $233,000 in child support
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Colorado’s second-highest court ruled last week that a man could not rely on his ex-wife’s onetime statement that “you don’t need to pay me child support” to get out of paying $233,000 over the subsequent 16 years. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals evaluated for the first time whether James Gallo could invoke…
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Colorado Supreme Court rejects email as method to notify litigants of contempt proceedings
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The Colorado Supreme Court clarified on Monday that notifying a litigant via email that they are subject to contempt proceedings is not permitted, although one justice suggested the rules should allow for such a method going forward. Under the procedural rules for civil cases, when a person is subject to contempt of court that does not…
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Colorado justices show interest in validity of email notification for contempt proceedings
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The Colorado Supreme Court has ordered a Larimer County magistrate to explain why she could authorize a party to be notified solely by email about upcoming contempt proceedings. Under the procedural rules for civil cases, when a person is subject to contempt of court, notice must be served “directly” upon them. Andrew Conners, who is…
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Denver judge wrongly jailed man over child support payments, appeals court finds
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A Denver judge jailed a man for 12 days over his failure to make child support payments, but she disregarded the procedural requirements and safeguards for holding someone in contempt, the state’s Court of Appeals determined. District Court Judge Nikea T. Bland ordered Rory Fitzgerald Carpenter to jail in January 2022 after a hearing in…
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Colorado justices to consider financial penalties on lawyers, notice for evictions under COVID rules
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The Colorado Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear an appeal implicating the ability of law firms to financially penalize their attorneys for leaving for another job and taking clients with them. The justices also signaled they will decide whether a federal law enacted during the early COVID-19 pandemic still requires certain landlords…
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Colo. lawmaker Leonard drops re-election bid over child support issues
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Republican state Rep. Tim Leonard of Evergreen, who a month ago told a judge that he’s too busy as a lawmaker to get another job that could help him pay his child-support obligations, is dropping his bid for re-election to the House District 25 seat. Leonard made the announcement through Complete Colorado Wednesday morning. Leonard…
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Another Colo. House hopeful has problems with child support, says report
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Republican Don Bendell of Florence, who hopes to win a seat in the Colorado House of Representatives in November, failed to pay child support for more than a decade for the three children from his first marriage, according to Tuesday’s Pueblo Chieftain. According to Bendell’s three children, now adults, he didn’t pay child support for…
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Citizen legislature vs. child support? Lawmaker’s court hearing points to problems
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Lawmakers elected to the Colorado General Assembly are expected to be part-time. It’s why they’re paid so little ($30,000 a year, currently), and the session only lasts for 120 days per year. The rest of the year, they’re expected to handle legislative business on a part-time basis. Few lawmakers, if any, claim they can live…
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Mosle and Bicha: 2Gen approach about increasing quality of social service systems
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Ask any group of parents – rich or poor – what they want for their children and the answers you’ll get are amazingly consistent. They want good-paying jobs to support their families, high quality child care and great schools. We asked ourselves: Shouldn’t we design social service systems that address that universal list of hopes and dreams…
