On January 1st, 2014, new guidelines for spousal maintenance (sometimes known as alimony or spousal support) went into effect after being passed by the Colorado legislature in 2013. The maintenance guidelines attempted to make maintenance more like temporary maintenance and child support that use basic spreadsheets that make the monetary amounts universal based on the […]
Ask five different people what common law marriage is and how long it takes to be in one, and you will get six different answers. This is especially true if you ask people from around the country. All over the U.S., each state has different time frames and requirements before a couple can be considered […]
On January 1, 2014 Colorado’s spousal “maintenance” law will change from its current form. What is traditionally known as alimony, in Colorado it is called “maintenance,” or more precisely, the Spousal Maintenance Act. Whatever the terminology, the word has always meant: money that one spouse pays to a former spouse for a period of time […]