divorce
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Appeals court decides 2-1 on standard for restricting parents’ custody
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A divided panel of the state’s Court of Appeals has clarified the circumstances under which judges can restrict a parent’s time with their children, in a case complicated by the contradictory orders of a Jefferson County magistrate. Under Colorado law, a divorced parent can ask a judge to restrict their ex-spouse’s custody if there are…
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‘I’ve never seen anything like that’: State Supreme Court weighs discipline for divorce attorney
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Prominent family law attorney Brenda L. Storey said she was wrongly punished for simply asking a client in a divorce case to pay her, and for ultimately using money from the marriage toward her bill — a common practice in such proceedings. The Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel, which prosecutes lawyer discipline cases, took a vastly…
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Appeals court orders frozen embryos be turned over for destruction in case implicating religion
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The state’s second-highest court ordered a divorced couple’s frozen embryos be turned over to the husband for destruction, finding an El Paso County judge disobeyed both the Colorado Supreme Court and Court of Appeals’ instructions for resolving disputes over fertilized eggs. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals on Thursday issued its second decision…
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Q&A with Elisa Overall | Helming Colorado’s access to justice project in the face of persistent barriers
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FAST FACTS: Elisa “Emo” Overall is the first executive director of the Colorado Access to Justice Commission, taking on that role in March 2021 Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, she grew up between Arizona and Mexico and graduated from the University of Denver’s law school Worked in private practice representing indigent defendants and prior to…
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Appeals court says divorcing spouse not entitled to other’s job bonus
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A woman’s bonus at her job was not marital property that she had to split with her husband in their divorce, the state’s Court of Appeals has ruled. Extending the Colorado Supreme Court’s previous decisions about stock options and paid leave, a three-judge panel for the appellate court decided that because Cassandra Turner’s employer controlled…
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Federal judge cites no power to review Colorado Supreme Court decision, rejects discipline lawsuit
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Citing the longstanding prohibition on federal judges reviewing decisions of state courts, a magistrate judge has tossed a lawsuit from a paralegal who sought to overturn the Colorado Supreme Court’s 2019 sanction of her. Susan Renee Zebelman Vigoda of Boulder sued the state’s Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel, among others, for its investigation of her…
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State Supreme Court drops case over parental deadlock in school choice
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The Colorado Supreme Court will not hear an appeal that questioned whether judges may decide where children are to attend school when their divorced parents cannot agree. The court’s dismissal of Hakiowskie Flores’ petition came after a Jefferson County judge reluctantly agreed with a recent decision out of the state’s Court of Appeals that found…
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Colorado political power couple Mike and Cynthia Coffman divorcing
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U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman and his wife, Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman, are divorcing, Colorado Politics learned Monday. The couple made the decision over the weekend. In a joint statement, they said: “After much soul searching we have made the painful decision to get a divorce. This has been a difficult choice for both of…
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Tim Leonard already weighing legislation to ‘clarify’ statute that landed him in jail
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Jefferson County authorities jailed State Rep. Tim Leonard, R-Evergreen, Friday afternoon on contempt-of-court charges stemming from a longstanding series of disputes between the lawmaker and his ex-wife over education decisions for two of their minor children. Leonard was sentenced to serve 14 days behind bars at the Jefferson County Detention Center in Golden by District…
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Rep Tim Leonard serves historic jail term
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A Colorado state representative began serving a two-week jail term Friday, Dec. 9, after he was held in contempt of court during a divorce proceeding in September. State Rep. Tim Leonard, R-Evergreen, was sentenced to 14 days in the Jefferson County Jail in Golden, where he will be held until Dec. 23, according to a…