Family Law (& Colorado Divorce) Statutes Now Online!first posted on: 6/6/2003
 LexisNexis™, a leading provider of Colorado legal, news and business information services, now provides direct and free online access to all Colorado statutory laws! The complete text of Colorado divorce law and related family law statutes (including laws regarding Colorado child support, child custody, parenting responsibilities and timesharing, paternity, spousal maintenance, legal separation, etc.) — all are now accessible and searchable online, and without cost.
 The Colorado legislature and LexisNexis™ reached a five year agreement in May, 2003 (effective July 1, 2003), with LexisNexis™ becoming the new official publisher of Colorado laws. As part of its agreement with the state of Colorado, LexisNexis is providing the public free access to the Colorado law (the “Colorado Revised Statutes”) and Court Rules, as well as the Colorado and United States Constitutions.
The Role of Colorado Statutes & Divorce Law
Please note that statutes — the laws created by the Colorado legislature — only define a portion of the body of authority that controls Colorado divorce law. So-called “case law” — the decisions of actual divorce cases as earlier reviewed and decided by Colorado's appellate courts — are an equally important part of that authority. (These are not broadly available without subscriptions such as those Colorado family lawyers or other divorce professionals maintain.)
And, importantly, as detailed in other materials on our website, your divorce or parenting agreement may derive more from your mutual sense of what is fair and workable for your particular family's circumstances, than from a purely “legal rights” focused approach. Mediation is uniquely suited to respect your wishes and values in this regard! Nonetheless, you may wish to learn about and consider legislated Colorado divorce laws using this free, new search tool.
Other Colorado Divorce Forms & Tools
In considering your divorce or parenting issues with your spouse or co-parent, you may also wish to review our user-friendly guide to the latest Colorado divorce forms, and our mediation planning tools. These reflect the recent changes in Colorado divorce law.
Also, see our “Spotlight”
or other feature articles, where we discuss in detail other Colorado legal, procedural (including
divorce law and family mediation) or parenting topics. Presently, we look in
depth at:
An additional highly recommended
resource for Colorado divorce law information is
Colorado Springs, Colorado
family lawyer Carl Graham's Colorado Divorce and
Family Law Guide.
Return to home, or for other
news articles on Colorado divorce law and Colorado mediation issues, return to the index to our site's Colorado divorce law information and mediation news
- The Latest!
|
Here,
at “The Latest!,” you’ll find the latest news and
information regarding Colorado divorce law
and other Colorado divorce information or topics of interest
to parties considering mediation of their Colorado divorce.
Learn about
the new Colorado Mediation Association or “theMAC” in
our article
Finally, consider articles regarding changes at our office
in 2006 (the substitution of old-style flip-charts with
