Colorado Divorce Law
<h2> <center> In re the Marriage of Rachel Belinsky and Rabbi Jacob Bellinsky </h2> </center>
Central City, Colorado family law lawyers represented the wife and husband in a divorce.<br> <br> The parties’ marriage ended in 2016. Their separation agreement, which included a parenting plan, was incorporated into that decree, and provided for shared parental responsibilities for the <br> parties’ six unemancipated children.<br> <br> In 2021, after an evidentiary hearing, ... More...
$0 (07-17-2025 - CO)<h2> <center> Wendy Hunter Davis v. Social Security Administration </h2> </center>
Denver, Colorado disability lawyer represented the Plaintiff seeking review of the denial of her application for DIWC/DIWW benefits by HHS.<br> <br> * * *<br> <br> DIWC (Disabled Insured Worker's Claim) and DIWW (Disabled Insured Widow's/Widower's Claim) are Social Security disability benefits programs in the US. DIWC provides benefits to insured workers who become disabled, while DIWW provides be... More...
$0 (06-15-2025 - CO)<h2> <center> In re the Marriage of Lisa Moore and Dan Moore </h2> </center>
Breckenridge, Colorado family law lawyers represented the parties in a divorce action.<br> <br> Dan and Lisa were married in 1992. They separated in 2020, after almost twenty-eight years of marriage. The district court finalized their divorce and entered permanent orders in March 2022. As part of the permanent orders, the court ordered the parties to sell a Florida condominium, which they ha... More...
$0 (05-08-2025 - CO)<h2> <center> In re the Marriage of Zulmacristina Fuguenez Pearson v. Marshall Lee Pearson </h2> </center>
Littleton, Colorado family law lawyers represented wife and husband a dissolution of marriage (divorce) action.<br> <br> The parties married in 2005 and have one child. <br> <br> The district court first found that husband’s remainder interest in his family’s Iowa farm was his separate premarital <br> property. The court emphasized, however, that the evidence was insufficient to i... More...
$0 (03-27-2025 - CO)<h2> <center> In the Marriage of Stacey Fortner and Christopher Fortner </h2> </center>
Colorado Springs, Colorado family law lawyers represented the parties in a divorce.<br> <br> Wife and husband married in 2013 and have two children. In <br> 2019, husband and wife’s mother purchased a home for the family <br> to live in together. In 2020, husband moved out of the home and <br> wife and wife’s mother continued to live there. In 2021, wife <br> petitioned to dissolv... More...
$0 (03-06-2025 - CO)<h2> <center> In re the Marriage of: James Ewin Webb and Laura Lynn Webb </h2> </center>
Castle Rock, Colorado family lawyer lawyers represented the parties in a divorce.<br> <br> In January 2020, father filed a petition for legal separation from mother. The parties had four children, but only one child was a minor during the relevant period of this appeal. The parents agreed to a parenting plan granting mother the majority of time with the minor child. <br> <br> * * *<br> <br... More...
$0 (02-27-2025 - CO)<h2> <center> In re the Marriage of Joseph Barry Dyer, Jr. and Sharla Lynn Dyar </h2> </center>
Durango, Colorado family law lawyers represented the parties in a divorce case.<br> <br> Shortly before their 2011 marriage, the parties executed a premarital agreement, in which they agreed that each party would retain their separate property if the marriage was dissolved. The premarital agreement defined separate property to include premarital assets, separately titled property, property acqui... More...
$0 (02-14-2025 - CO)<h2> <center> In Re: Marriage of Gill
Denver, Colorado family law lawyers represented the parties in a divorce.<br> <br> In 2023, the district court dissolved the parties’ seven-year <br> marriage. The court directed the parties to exercise equal parenting <br> time with their three children, and it allocated to wife sole decision-<br> making responsibility. The court determined that the true value of <br> the marital estate ... More...
$0 (02-09-2025 - CO)<h2> <center> Reed Kimokeo Tatsuo Kawahakui v. Ashley Jean Kawahakui </h2> </center>
Pueblo, Colorado family law lawyers represented the parties in a divorce action.<br> <br> In 2023, husband petitioned the court to dissolve the parties’ <br> twelve-year marriage, and wife responded by filing a waiver and <br> acceptance of service. After the parties appeared at the initial <br> status conference, nothing happened in the case for the next six <br> weeks. The court issued ... More...
$0 (01-23-2025 - CO)<h2> <center> In re the Marriage of Alonso J. Martinez and Theresa A. Martinez </h2> </center>
Pueblo, Colorado family law lawyers represented the parties in a divorce.<br> <br> The parties were married for twenty-two years. In 2023, the <br> district court dissolved the marriage and entered permanent orders. <br> <br> In doing so, the court divided the parties’ $620,000 marital <br> estate by allocating to husband about $340,000 of the marital <br> equity and wife the remaining $... More...
$0 (01-23-2025 - CO)<h2> <center> Juana Rios de Martinez v. Alfredo Jose Martinez, et al. </h2> </center>
Grand Junction, Colorado family law lawyers represented wife and husband in a divorce involving alleged fraudulent transfers.<br> <br> <br> ¶ 1 Under the Colorado Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act (CUFTA), a transfer of an asset made with actual intent to hinder, delay, or defraud a creditor is fraudulent, and a court may impose a variety of remedies, including setting aside the transfer. §Â... More...
$0 (10-17-2024 - CO)<h2> <center> Joana Rios de Martinez v. Alfredo Jose Martinez Landaverde, et al. </h2> </center>
</h2><br> Grand Junction, Colorado family law lawyers represented husband and wife a divorce involving alleged fraudulent transfers. <br> </h2><br> <br> Under the Colorado Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act (CUFTA), a transfer of an asset made with actual intent to hinder, delay, or defraud a creditor is fraudulent, and a court may impose a variety of remedies, including setting aside the transfer. �... More...
$0 (10-17-2024 - CO)<h2> <center> In the Marriage of Marcell Capparlli and Catherine Cho Chapparelli </h2> </center>
<h2><br> Boulder, Colorado divorce lawyers represented man and woman.<br> <br> <br> In this dissolution of marriage case, husband challenges the district court's allocation of property and award of maintenance. A division of the court of appeals concludes that the district court erred when it classified a portion of a jointly titled asset as wife's separate property and designated a portion of a d... More...
$0 (09-19-2024 - CO)<h2><center> Charleslie Wayne Edwards v. Benito Santoyo </h2></center
<h2><br> Carson City, Colorado family law lawyers represented the Plaintiff and Defendant in a divorce action.<br> </h2><br> <br> <br> Edwards and respondent Benito Santoyo were married in Colorado and share one minor child in common. The parties and the child resided in Colorado for the majority of their marriage. However, Edwards filed a complaint for divorce and a Uniform Child Custody Jurisdic... More...
$0 (08-22-2024 - CO)<h2><center> In re the Marriage of Juan Antonio Gonzalez Morales and Abril Dubbe Meixueiro/</h2></center>
Glenwood Springs, Colorado family law lawyers represented the husband and wife seeking a divorce.<br> <br> <br> This case requires a division of the court of appeals to address, for the first time in Colorado, the doctrine of patria potestas and its impact on a parent's ability to seek the return of a child to their habitual place of residence if the child was wrongly removed and transported to an... More...
$0 (01-04-2024 - CO)<center> <h2> JACOB RICHARDSON v. TITLE IV-D AGENCY, Colorado Division of Child Support Services, State Enforcement Unit for Denver City and County </h2> </center>
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Denver, CO - Divorce lawyer represented Plaintiff - Appellant with appealing from an order to pay child support. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> Mr. Richardson was ordered to pay child support in 1999. In November 2017, <br> a support judgment was filed, which reflected that he should have paid $90,004.64 <br> from November 1999 through April 2015, b... More...
$0 (11-03-2021 - CO)<h2><center> United States of America v. JESSE MANQUAN YARCLAY </h2></center>
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Denver, CO - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a bank fraud charge. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> Defendant used stolen identities and stolen bank account information to <br> defraud unsuspecting victims of over $95,000. In a few short months, Defendant <br> cashed twenty-four counterfeit checks at five banks on the accounts of eight... More...
$0 (08-09-2021 - CO)<center> <h2> DJUAN PRESTON WILLIAMS v. STATE OF OKLAHOMA </h2> </center>
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Denver, CO - Civil lawyer represented Plaintiff - Appellant with suing the State of Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Employment Security Committee, Grant County, Kansas, and several individuals for <br> Employment Discrimination and Religious Discrimination. </h2></font></b></i></?<center><br> <br> Mr. Williams sued the State of Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Employment Securi... More...
$0 (08-09-2021 - CO)<center> <h2> United States of America v. Galima Murry </h2> </center>
Denver, CO - The United States of America charged Galima Murry with conspiracy to commit marriage fraud and making false statements regarding that fraud to the government. <br> <br> Sergeant Galima Murry was sentenced to serve 8 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit marriage fraud and making false statements regarding that fraud to the government. Murry was one of four defendants who ... More...
$0 (05-30-2020 - CO)<center> <h2> Free The Nipple-Fort Collinsl v. City of Fort Collins, Colorado </h2> </center>
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/all/themes/ca10/assets/img/slide2.jpg"><br> </center><br> The city of Fort Collins, Colorado, enacted a public-nudity ordinance that<br> imposes no restrictions on male toplessness but prohibits women from baring their<br> breasts below the areola. See Fort Collins, Colo., Mun. Code � 17-142 (2015). In<br> response, Free t... More...
$0 (02-15-2019 - CO)<center> <h2> Nikos Hecht v. Great Northern Insurance Company, d/b/a Chubb </h2> </center>
<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.cod.uscourts.gov/portals/0/Images/usdc/ArrajAtNight.png"><br> </center><br> <br> Nikos Hecht appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of<br> his insurer, Great Northern Insurance Company (Chubb), which denied Hecht’s<br> claims based on policy exclusions for intentional acts and abuse committed by its<br> insured. Exercising ... More...
$0 (04-18-2019 - CO)<center> <h2> Jerud Butler v. Board of County Commissioners for San Miguel County </h2> </center>
<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.cod.uscourts.gov/portals/0/Images/usdc/ArrajAtNight.png"><br> </center><br> <br> The First Amendment protects a government employee’s speech (1) made as a<br> citizen (2) on a matter of public concern (3) if the employee’s right to speak<br> outweighs the government’s interest as an employer in an efficient workplace. These<br> are the first thre... More...
$0 (03-30-2019 - CO)<center> <h2> Gilbert T. Tso v. Rebecca Murray </h2> </center>
Denver, CO: Family Law, Lawyers<br> <br> This case arises from plaintiff Gilbert T. Tso�s dissatisfaction with the<br> child-support obligation established in his Illinois divorce from his ex-wife, Rebecca<br> Murray, and with the procedures used to establish and enforce that obligation. After<br> Murray obtained an Illinois court order requiring Tso to pay ongoing child support<br> and arrea... More...
$0 (01-09-2019 - CO)<center> <h2> Thomas Rael v. Smith's Food and Drug Centers, Inc. <P> <img width="300" src="https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/all/themes/ca10/assets/img/slide2.jpg"> <P> Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals Courthouse - Denver, Colorado </h2> </center>
Thomas Rael appeals the district court’s dismissal of his state law tort claims<br> as preempted by § 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act (“LMRA”),<br> 29 U.S.C. § 185(a). Exercising jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, we affirm.<br> 2<br> I. Factual Background<br> Rael worked for Smith’s Food and Drug Centers as a meat cutter for 25 years<br> until he resigned in December 2014. ... More...
$0 (11-07-2017 - CO)<center> <h2> Matthew Gadd v. Jonathan Campbell <P> <img width="300" src="https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/all/themes/ca10/assets/img/slide2.jpg"> <P> Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals Courthouse - Denver, Colorado </h2> </center>
In this interlocutory appeal, Defendant Jonathan Campbell, a South Jordan<br> City, Utah, police officer, challenges the district court’s decision to deny him<br> qualified immunity from Plaintiff Matthew Gadd’s 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim. Having<br> jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, see Mitchell v. Forsyth, 472 U.S. 511, 524-30<br> (1985), we REVERSE because Gadd has failed to show that Offi... More...
$0 (10-26-2017 - CO)<center><h2>Deborah Lee Nicholls v. The People of the State of Colorado</h2> <table> <td> <img width=”400” src="https://geo1.ggpht.com/cbk?panoid=s2saAXm3cf1328vkSKgKrg&output=thumbnail&cb_client=search.LOCAL_UNIVERSAL.gps&thumb=2&w=138&h=79&yaw=178.09908&pitch=0&thumbfov=100"> </td> </table></center><center><h3><FONT COLOR="black">Colorado Supreme Court </FONT> </h3>
On the night of March 6, 2003, Nicholls’ husband, Tim, set fire to their home <br> while she was at their business, the Tailgate Bar. The fire killed their three children, <br> ages eleven, five, and three. After the fire consumed the house, Nicholls returned from <br> the Tailgate Bar and claimed to have left candles burning inside the house. She showed <br> little concern for the children a... More...
$0 (06-20-2017 - CO)Julia Copeland Cooper v. NCS Pearson, Inc.
Julia Copeland Cooper (Copeland) appeals from a grant of summary judgment dismissing on statute of limitations grounds her Copyright Act claims against NCS Pearson, Inc. for co-ownership of a psychological test. The statute of limitations for claims under the Copyright Act is three years. 17 U.S.C. § 507(b). Because any such claims available to Ms. Copeland would have accrued in 1993 or 1996 an... More...
$0 (08-19-2013 - CO)Spacecon Specialty Contractors, LLC v. Richard Bensinger
Richard Bensinger produced and screened a film about Spacecon Specialty Contractors, LLC. Claiming the film conveyed several defamatory statements, Spacecon filed suit against Bensinger in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, based on diversity jurisdiction, asserting a state-law claim for defamation per se. The district court granted Bensinger’s motion for summary... More...
$0 (04-16-2013 - CO)Kathleen Mills v. The Prudential Insurance Company of America
Kathleen Mills filed a complaint in federal court seeking to challenge a beneficiary designation made by her husband, Chief Warrant Officer (CWO) H. Roger Mills, with regard to a Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance Act (SGLIA) policy issued through Defendant Prudential Insurance Company of America. While Ms. Mills and CWO Mills were in divorce proceedings, CWO Mills changed his life insura... More...
$0 (03-14-2013 - CO)In re Marriage of Wiggins
¶1 This original proceeding brought under C.A.R. 21 arises from a divorce and parenting case that is in its third year of post-dissolution decree litigation. Mother’s petition challenges the district court’s summary denial of her motion for a protective order and sanctions concerning the acquisition by Father’s attorney of Mother’s entire employment file from Mother�... More...
$0 (06-19-2012 - CO)Sachchit Kumar Pandey v. Robert Homer Russell, II
Sachchit Kumar Pandey, appearing pro se, appeals from the district court’s sua sponte dismissal of his amended verified complaint. Exercising jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291, we affirm.<br><br>I<br><br>On May 20, 2011, Pandey, a Colorado resident, filed a verified complaint in the District of Colorado pursuant to “United States Constitution Article VI Clause 2 and 3,â€... More...
$0 (10-12-2011 - CO)Lynn Jewell v. Life Insurance Company of North America
<P> The Life Insurance Company of North America ("LINA") appeals an order granting Lynn Jewell's claim for long-term disability benefits under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq., ("ERISA"), arguing that the district court should not have considered three exhibits from outside the administrative record. Mr. Jewell cross-appeals, seeking an award of ... More...
$0 (11-30-2007 - CO)Lynn Jewell v. Life Insurance Company of North America
<P> The Life Insurance Company of North America ("LINA") appeals an order granting Lynn Jewell's claim for long-term disability benefits under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq., ("ERISA"), arguing that the district court should not have considered three exhibits from outside the administrative record. Mr. Jewell cross-appeals, seeking an award of ... More...
$0 (12-09-2007 - CO)Lynn Jewell v. Life Insurance Company of North America
<P> The Life Insurance Company of North America ("LINA") appeals an order granting Lynn Jewell's claim for long-term disability benefits under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq., ("ERISA"), arguing that the district court should not have considered three exhibits from outside the administrative record. Mr. Jewell cross-appeals, seeking an award of ... More...
$0 (12-09-2007 - CO)<a href="http://www.kscourts.org/ca10/cases/2005/09/01-1053.htm" target="_new">Jessica Gonzales, etc. v. City of Castle Rock, et al.</a>
<P> Jessica Gonzales brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 individually and on behalf of her deceased minor children against the City of Castle Rock, Colorado, and Castle Rock police officers Aaron Ahlfinger, R.S. Brink, and Marc Ruisi. Ms. Gonzales alleged that plaintiffs' substantive and procedural due process rights were violated when defendant police officers failed to enforce a restrai... More...
$0 (09-08-2005 - CO)<a href="http://www.kscourts.org/ca10/cases/2004/07/03-1295.htm" target="_new">Michael Shoels, et al. v. Thomas Klebod, et al.</a>
<P> Five years after the tragedy at Columbine High School, we are called to determine whether the district court rightly put to rest a lawsuit between Michael and Vonda Shoels, whose son Isaiah was killed at Columbine, and the parents of the two shooters. Over strenuous objection, the district court found that the Shoels, through counsel, had entered a binding agreement to settle their claims in A... More...
$2400000 (07-23-2004 - CO)<a href="http://www.kscourts.org/ca10/cases/2003/12/02-9009.htm" target="_new">David C. Jonson, Successor in Interest and Estate of Barbara J. Jonson v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue</a>
<P>This appeal presents the fearsome twosome of death and taxes with a new twist. A decedent's estate contends that the decedent's death freed her estate of income taxes due for a tax year long preceding her death. Under the Internal Revenue Code's innocent-spouse provision, relief from the joint and several liability that generally follows from filing a joint income-tax return may be available ... More...
$0 (01-05-2004 - CO)<a href="http://www.cobar.org/opinions/opinion.cfm?OpinionID=3967" target="_new">In re the Marriage of Tondeleyo L. Dale and Christopher T. Major</a>
<P>Family Law - Divorce: In this dissolution of marriage proceeding, Tondeleyo L. Dale (wife) appeals from the division of property set forth in the trial court's permanent orders. We affirm. <P> Wife married Christopher T. Major (husband) in 1997, and the decree dissolving their marriage was entered by the trial court in March 2002. The marriage was the second for both, no children were born to... More...
$0 (11-24-2003 - CO)<a href="http://www.kscourts.org/ca10/cases/2003/10/02-1482.htm" target="_new">In re: Darlene Jill Wise</a>
<P>On July 12, 1991, the El Paso County, Colorado, District Court granted Ms. Wise and her husband a divorce. Although the divorce decree incorporated the property settlement agreement, it made no mention of spousal maintenance. Subsequently, the court granted Ms. Wise's motion for maintenance. The court ordered Ms. Wise's ex-husband to make monthly support payments of $500 until the earlier of he... More...
$0 (10-14-2003 - CO)<a href="http://www.kscourts.org/ca10/cases/2003/04/02-1040.htm" target="_new">Barbara A. Patton v. The Denver Post Corporation; Denver Post-Denver Guild Pension Plan</a>
<p>The marriage of Mr. Phipers and Ms. Patton was dissolved on February 10, 1988. During the mediation related to the dissolution of their marriage, the parties voluntarily produced financial information. In this regard, Mr. Phipers wrote to request information from his employer, the Denver Post, regarding his retirement benefits. In response to his inquiry, the plan administrator informed him of ... More...
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