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Do It Yourself - Custody
Understanding Divorce and Custody Issues
Frequently asked questions explaining what you will experience when you file for a divorce and/or when a divorce is filed against you, including how the court determines what will happen with issues about children of your marriage.
By: Colorado Legal Services - Northwest Project
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How do you ask the court to determine who has what parental responsibilities (custody)?
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These are the instructions and forms you need to use to ask the court to determine Parental Responsibilities (Custody). (You need Acrobat Reader to open the forms in this packet. Scroll down and click on the Acrobat icon to download a copy.)
By: Colorado State Court Administrator's Office
Custody Preparation for Moms
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This sites' focus is on helping and educating protective mothers. The information on this site is not intended to be legal advice.
By: custodyprepformoms.org
How to Ask the Courts to Change Custody Orders If you have a divorce decree or have permanent orders in a case already establishing parental responsibility of your child(ren) (custody) and you want to make a change to those orders, this is the information you need. (You need Acrobat Reader to open this file. Click on the Acrobat icon at the bottom of this page to get a free copy.)
By: Colorado Legal Services - Fort Collins
Change of Custody
How to change custody (allocation of parental responsibility) orders.
By: Colorado Legal Services - Northwest Project
How to File Contempt of Court in Domestic Cases
This site has instructions and forms you need when filing contempt of court citations. You must have Adobe Reader on your computer. If you do not, go to www.adobe.com, look for the icon "Get Adobe Reader", click on it and follow instructions.
By: Colorado Judicial Branch
Modification of Parenting Time (Visitation) Packet This packet has forms and instructions you will need to modify parenting time. (You need Acrobat Reader to open this file. Click on the Acrobat icon at the bottom of this page to get a free copy.)
By: Colorado Legal Services
Changing Visitation
How to change, reduce or restrict visitation - child is living with you.
By: Colorado Legal Services
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What is a Contempt Citation?
When someone files a contempt citation against you, it means they are asking the Judge to punish you because they believe you have violated a court order.
By: Colorado Legal Services
Emergency Legal Assistance for Victims
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Aiding victims through trauma intervention, emergency legal assistance and advocacy, crisis court support and intervention services.
By: Project Safeguard
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