marriage
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Colorado Supreme Court shows interest in divorce case, man’s 14-month confinement
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The Colorado Supreme Court signaled recently that it may intervene in a pair of cases – one involving a divorce between a Colorado resident and a Nebraska resident, and the other challenging a defendant’s 14-month confinement before trial. In the first case, Jeffry H. Green and Barbara Green filed for divorce on the same day…
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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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10th Circuit finds no need to ask jurors about race, Trump in immigration-related trial
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A judge was not required to ask jurors about their racial prejudices or their reactions to then-President Donald Trump’s derogatory comments about African and Caribbean countries during a criminal trial in which three of the four defendants were Black immigrants, the federal appeals court based in Denver ruled on Tuesday. During the January 2020 trial…
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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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The march down the aisle was in a busy lane in Denver last month
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Here’s some good news for Colorado’s hopeless romantics: Love is in the air in Denver. The city Clerk and Recorder’s Office broke a record for marriage licenses in August: An “astounding” 1,123 couples got hitched in the cow town. That broke the old record set just last August, when the city wrote 985 marriage citations.…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Utah lawmaker wants to raise state’s legal marriage age to 18
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Utah Utah lawmaker wants to raise state’s legal marriage age to 18 SALT LAKE CITY – A push against underage marriage in the U.S. is coming to Utah, where a lawmaker wants to raise the legal age to 18 to prevent girls from being pressured into the unions associated with higher poverty and lower education…
