IF YOUR CHILD IS NOT SAFE TONIGHT, YOU HAVE OPTIONS BEFORE MORNING
You do not have to wait for a court date that is weeks away. Colorado gives parents several emergency tools, and some of them work after the courthouse has closed for the day. A judge is available by telephone in every judicial district at all hours when the courts are closed, and a properly pleaded emergency motion filed in a district court case gets a hearing inside fourteen days.
The hard part is choosing the right tool and pleading it correctly the first time. File the wrong one and you lose days. File the right one badly and a judge can deny it without a hearing, or order you to pay the other parent’s attorney fees.
Moran, Allen & Associates Family Law handles emergency parenting matters in El Paso County and Teller County. If your child is at risk, call our Colorado Springs office at (719) 447-0762 or our Woodland Park office at (719) 686-7554. If your child is in immediate danger, call 911 first.
ON THIS PAGE
- What Colorado Actually Calls An Emergency Custody Order
- The Motion To Restrict Parenting Time Under C.R.S. 14-10-129(4)
- Temporary Orders When There Is No Parenting Plan Yet
- Protection Orders And Temporary Care And Control Of Children
- When The Child Or The Case Is In Another State
- How An Emergency Order Becomes A Parenting Plan
- Evidence That Actually Moves A Colorado Judge
- Filing In El Paso And Teller County
- Mistakes That Sink Emergency Motions
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Resources And Where To Get Help
- Talk To A Colorado Springs Family Law Attorney
- Sources
WHAT COLORADO ACTUALLY CALLS AN EMERGENCY CUSTODY ORDER
Colorado has no filing called an “emergency custody order.” The phrase is what worried parents type into a search bar, but it does not match anything on a court form or a docket. Colorado also stopped using the word “custody” in most domestic cases years ago, replacing it with “allocation of parental responsibilities,” which covers both parenting time and decision-making.
What exists instead is a small set of distinct emergency tools. Each has its own statute, its own standard, and its own timeline. Picking correctly depends on three things: whether a parenting order already exists, whether the courthouse is open, and whether the danger is to the child, to a parent, or to both.
| Tool | Statute | When it fits | How fast |
|---|---|---|---|
| Motion to restrict parenting time | C.R.S. 14-10-129(4) | A parenting order already exists and the child is in imminent danger from the other parent’s time or contact | Parenting time is supervised immediately; hearing within 14 days |
| Temporary orders | C.R.S. 14-10-108 | A divorce or parental responsibilities case is open or being filed and you need an interim schedule | Set by the court, usually weeks |
| Emergency protection order | C.R.S. 13-14-103 | Nights, weekends, and holidays when the courts are closed | Same night, by telephone through law enforcement |
| Temporary civil protection order | C.R.S. 13-14-104.5 | Abuse, stalking, sexual violence, or threats, with children who need temporary care and control | Same day the petition is filed, often without the other party present |
| Temporary emergency jurisdiction | C.R.S. 14-13-204 | The child is physically in Colorado but the case belongs to another state | Immediate but time limited |
These tools are not mutually exclusive. A parent fleeing a violent situation on a Friday night may use three of them in sequence: an emergency protection order that night, a temporary civil protection order on Monday, and a motion to restrict parenting time in the existing divorce case that same week.
THE MOTION TO RESTRICT PARENTING TIME UNDER C.R.S. 14-10-129(4)
This is the closest thing Colorado has to a true emergency custody motion, and it is the most powerful and most dangerous tool on the list. Under C.R.S. 14-10-129(4), a motion alleging that a child is in imminent physical or emotional danger because of a parent’s parenting time or contact must be heard and ruled upon no later than fourteen days after it is filed.
The consequence is immediate. Any parenting time that occurs during that fourteen-day window must be supervised by an unrelated third party the court deems suitable, or by a licensed mental health professional as defined in C.R.S. 14-10-127(1)(b). The other parent’s unsupervised time stops the moment the motion is properly filed, before a judge has heard a word of testimony.
What The Motion Has To Say
The statute requires you to allege imminent danger. It does not require you to prove it up front. The Colorado Court of Appeals made that explicit in In re Marriage of Thorburn, 2022 COA 80, holding that the moving parent must sufficiently plead allegations showing danger that is threatening to occur at any moment.
The pleading standard is real, though. In In re Marriage of Wollert, 2020 CO 47, the Colorado Supreme Court held that a court must hold the hearing within fourteen days when the motion satisfies the particularity requirement of C.R.C.P. 7(b)(1), meaning it identifies the specific grounds and the reasons relief is warranted. The Court also held that a judge may not dispose of the motion without a hearing based on the judge’s own assessment of how credible the allegations seem.
Vagueness kills these motions. “He is a bad father” and “she has been unstable for years” are not allegations of imminent danger. Dates, incidents, injuries, statements, and witnesses are.
Whose Word Counts
A common misconception is that you need a police report, a caseworker, or a therapist to sign off before you can file. You do not. In In re Marriage of Slowinski, 199 P.3d 48 (Colo. App. 2008), the court held that no third-party verification is required and that a party’s own verification satisfies the statute.
That same case contains a deadline that cuts the other direction. If the court fails to hold the hearing within fourteen days, the automatic supervised-parenting-time sanction terminates. A restriction that was supposed to protect a child can evaporate on a scheduling error, which is why the hearing date gets confirmed the same day the motion is filed.
The Fourteen-Day Hearing And What The Judge Decides
At the hearing, the standard shifts. Thorburn clarified that the emergency motion is only the trigger for a fast hearing and an immediate interim restriction. To continue any restriction past the fourteen-day mark, the court applies the general endangerment standard in C.R.S. 14-10-129(1)(b)(I).
That standard asks whether parenting time would endanger the child’s physical health or significantly impair the child’s emotional development. If the court restricts parenting time, it must also enumerate the specific factual findings supporting the restriction. General concern is not enough; the order has to show its work.
Understand what these hearings look like in practice. They are short, often an hour or two, set on an already crowded docket. Both sides present evidence, and the judge either continues the restriction, modifies it, or lets normal parenting time resume.
The Downside Risk Nobody Warns Parents About
Subsection (5) of the same statute is mandatory. If the court finds that filing the motion was substantially frivolous, substantially groundless, or substantially vexatious, the court shall require the moving parent to pay the other parent’s reasonable and necessary attorney fees and costs. That is not discretionary language.
There is also a strategic cost. A failed emergency motion hands the other parent a powerful argument in every future hearing about whether you can support the child’s relationship with them. The one consolation is that the allegations are not wasted forever. In In re Marriage of Wenciker, 2022 COA 74, the court confirmed that endangerment allegations from an unsuccessful emergency motion can still support a later motion to substantially change parenting time or decision-making if they are ultimately proved.
A 2025 Decision Worth Knowing
Parents frequently assume that any large cut to the other parent’s time triggers the endangerment standard. In In re Marriage of Dale, 2025 COA 29, the Court of Appeals held that a substantial reduction in parenting time, standing alone, is not a “restriction” under C.R.S. 14-10-129(1)(b)(I).
The practical effect is that the label on your motion matters enormously. A request framed as a restriction invites the endangerment standard and the fee-shifting risk. A request framed as a modification of the schedule is measured by the child’s best interests, which is a far easier standard to meet.
TEMPORARY ORDERS WHEN THERE IS NO PARENTING PLAN YET
If no parenting order exists, there is nothing to restrict. The route instead runs through temporary orders in a newly filed or pending case, and through the automatic injunction that attaches the moment the case is served.
The Automatic Temporary Injunction
When a petition for allocation of parental responsibilities is filed and the other party is personally served or waives and accepts service, C.R.S. 14-10-123(3) puts an injunction in place against both parties automatically. Nobody has to ask for it.
It does three things. It enjoins each party from molesting or disturbing the peace of the other. It restrains each party from removing the minor child from Colorado without the consent of all other parties or a court order. It restrains each party from cancelling, modifying, terminating, or letting lapse a health or life insurance policy covering the child without fourteen days of advance notice and written consent.
The terms are printed directly on the summons and the petition, and they stay in force until the court enters a final decree, dismisses the petition, or modifies the injunction. Parallel provisions in C.R.S. 14-10-107(4)(b) govern divorce and legal separation cases. If a parent is threatening to take a child out of state, getting a case filed and served can lock that door faster than any motion.
What A Temporary Orders Motion Can Do
Under C.R.S. 14-10-108, either party may move for temporary parental responsibilities, child support, use of property, and attorney fees, supported by an affidavit setting out the factual basis. The court decides parental responsibilities at this stage using the best interests factors in C.R.S. 14-10-124(1.5).
The statute also authorizes orders enjoining a party from molesting or disturbing the peace of the other party or any child, and orders excluding a party from the family home upon a showing that physical or emotional harm would otherwise result. A protection order can be requested inside the same domestic relations case rather than as a separate action.
Why Judges Are Cautious About Ex Parte Relief
Parents often want an order entered today without notice to the other side. Colorado courts allow that only in narrow circumstances, and the case law is old and settled. In Olson v. Priest, 193 Colo. 222, 564 P.2d 122 (1977), the Colorado Supreme Court held that an order granting a temporary change of custody after an ex parte hearing with no notice denied due process where no evidence was presented and no finding was made that irreparable injury would result.
The lesson for a 2026 filing is unchanged. If you want relief without notice, you need sworn evidence and a specific articulation of the irreparable harm that will occur during the time it would take to give notice. Anything less is likely to be set for a hearing with notice instead.
The Myth That Temporary Orders Lock In Forever
Many parents believe that whoever wins temporary orders wins the case. Colorado law says the opposite. C.R.S. 14-10-108(5)(a) provides that a temporary order does not prejudice the rights of the parties or the child that will be adjudicated at later hearings.
The appellate courts have enforced that. In In re Marriage of Fickling, 100 P.3d 571 (Colo. App. 2004), the court held that temporary orders do not grant “parenting time rights” as that term is used in C.R.S. 14-10-129(1)(b)(I). Permanent orders that substantially reduce the time a parent had under temporary orders are therefore measured by the best interests standard, not by endangerment.
This cuts both ways. A parent who received limited time on an emergency basis is not permanently branded. A parent who received generous time temporarily has not banked it.
PROTECTION ORDERS AND TEMPORARY CARE AND CONTROL OF CHILDREN
Colorado’s civil protection order statutes changed substantially on January 1, 2025, and a great deal of published guidance still describes the old law. If you are reading anything that says you must prove “imminent danger” to obtain a temporary protection order, it is out of date.
After Hours: The Emergency Protection Order
When the county, district, and juvenile courts are closed, C.R.S. 13-14-103 requires the chief judge in every judicial district to make a judge available to issue emergency protection orders by telephone at all times. A peace officer with reasonable grounds to believe a child is in immediate and present danger of an unlawful sexual offense or domestic abuse can reach that judge, who may issue a written or verbal ex parte order on the spot.
An emergency protection order can award temporary care and control of any minor child of a party involved. It can also exclude a party from the family home, restrain contact with the child anywhere the child may be found, and restrain contact with the other parent.
It is short lived by design. The order expires no later than the close of judicial business on the next day of judicial business after it is issued, unless the court continues it. That next business day is when a temporary civil protection order petition needs to be filed. Note also that the statute states that the issuance of an emergency protection order is not evidence of any wrongdoing.
The Temporary Civil Protection Order And The New Standard
House Bill 24-1122 rewrote the threshold for a temporary civil protection order effective January 1, 2025. Under C.R.S. 13-14-104.5(7)(a), a judge or magistrate may now issue a temporary order upon finding that a risk or threat of physical harm, or a threat of psychological or emotional harm, exists to the persons seeking protection.
The statute also directs the court to consider all relevant evidence concerning safety regardless of when the incident occurred. A gap between the abuse and the filing is no longer a reason to deny relief. The motion may be heard ex parte, and the hearing on a permanent order is set not more than fourteen days after the temporary order issues.
The Provision Most Parents Have Never Heard Of
The same bill added C.R.S. 13-14-105(1.5), and it is the most useful emergency parenting provision enacted in Colorado in years. At the request of either the petitioner or the respondent, the court shall include in a protection order a provision awarding temporary care and control of joint or shared minor children for a period of up to one year.
That order can include parenting time responsibilities for both parties and conditions on parenting time, including supervision by a third party who agrees to the terms. If the court finds that the safety of a child or the protected party cannot be ensured by any reasonably available form of parenting time, the court may deny parenting time outright. The statute also directs the court to allocate interim decision-making responsibility when doing so is reasonably related to preventing domestic violence or preventing the child from witnessing it.
Temporary care and control and interim decision-making are decided under the same best interests standard found in C.R.S. 14-10-124, so the analysis is not a lesser version of a custody determination.
You May Not Be Sent To District Court
Parents are frequently told at a clerk’s window that a protection order involving children has to be filed in district court. C.R.S. 13-14-105(3) now says the opposite. If there is no pending or existing domestic relations or juvenile case in district court involving the shared children, a petitioner who is otherwise eligible to file in county court must not be instructed to file in district court instead.
What A Protection Order Is Not
A protection order is not a parenting plan. The care and control provision is capped at one year, and it is expressly governed by the Uniform Child-custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act. It buys time and safety while a domestic relations case establishes durable orders. Treating it as a permanent solution is one of the more common and costly errors parents make.
WHEN THE CHILD OR THE CASE IS IN ANOTHER STATE
Colorado Springs is a military town, and interstate parenting emergencies are routine here. A child arrives for summer parenting time and discloses something alarming. A parent relocates on orders and a custody order from another state suddenly needs enforcing. A Colorado judge’s authority in these situations comes from the Uniform Child-custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act.
Under C.R.S. 14-13-204, a Colorado court has temporary emergency jurisdiction if the child is physically present in Colorado and either has been abandoned, or it is necessary in an emergency to protect the child because the child, a sibling, or a parent is subjected to or threatened with mistreatment or abuse.
Two limits catch people off guard. The first is that neglect was deliberately removed as a basis for emergency jurisdiction, in order to harmonize the uniform act with the federal Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act. Allegations that would support a county human services referral will not necessarily support emergency jurisdiction.
The second is that the order is genuinely temporary. If another state already has an enforceable order or a pending proceeding, subsection (3) requires the Colorado order to specify a period the court considers adequate for the parent to obtain an order from that state. Subsection (4) requires the Colorado judge to immediately communicate with the other state’s court.
The Colorado Supreme Court confirmed the narrowness of this authority in People in Interest of S.A.G., 2021 CO 38, holding that temporary emergency jurisdiction exists only to protect abandoned children or to prevent mistreatment or abuse in emergencies. One narrow exception runs the other way: if no other state has jurisdiction and no proceeding is filed elsewhere, an emergency determination can become final once Colorado becomes the child’s home state.
HOW AN EMERGENCY ORDER BECOMES A PARENTING PLAN
Every emergency order is a bridge. The destination is a parenting plan, and the quality of that plan usually determines whether you are back in court in six months.
What Colorado Requires In A Parenting Plan
Under C.R.S. 14-10-124(7), both parties may submit a parenting plan addressing parenting time and the allocation of decision-making. If nobody submits one, or the court rejects what is submitted, the court must formulate a plan on its own motion.
The statute directs that when parenting time is contested, the plan must be as specific as possible, addressing both the family’s current needs and the future needs of the aging child. In general the plan may cover the type of decision-making awarded, a practical schedule including holidays and school vacations, exchange procedures and transportation, and methods and frequency of communication between the parents and between each parent and the child.
The statewide form is JDF 1113, available from the Colorado Judicial Branch. It is a useful checklist, but a form filled in by a parent who just lived through an emergency is rarely specific enough to prevent the next one.
Safety Provisions The Statute Expressly Authorizes
When a court finds by a preponderance of the evidence that a party has committed child abuse or neglect, domestic violence, or sexual assault resulting in the conception of the child, C.R.S. 14-10-124(4)(e) requires the court to consider conditions on parenting time that ensure the safety of the child and the abused party. The statute lists options most parents never think to request.
- Limiting contact between the parties to contact the court deems safe and that minimizes unnecessary communication
- Requiring exchanges to occur in a protected setting determined by the court
- Supervised parenting time
- Restricting overnight parenting time
- Prohibiting alcohol or controlled substances during parenting time and for twenty-four hours beforehand
- Keeping the address of the child or a party confidential
- Routing child support through the registry so the parties never need to contact each other about payments
The same subsection provides that mutual decision-making is not in a child’s best interests over the other party’s objection where the court finds child abuse or neglect, and is likewise disfavored where the court finds domestic violence unless there is credible evidence the parties can decide cooperatively in a way that is safe for the abused party and the child.
The 2024 Changes Most Pages Still Miss
House Bill 24-1350 amended C.R.S. 14-10-124 effective August 7, 2024, and it matters directly to emergency cases. The statute now carries a detailed definition of “coercive control” at subsection (1.3)(a), covering patterns such as isolating a person from friends and family, controlling their finances or movements, frequent degradation, threats against children, relatives, or pets, and threats tied to immigration status.
The same bill added subsection (9). If a court orders unsupervised parenting time and there is any information, including an accusation by the child, that the parent has committed domestic violence, child abuse, child sexual abuse, child emotional abuse, or coercive control, the court must state in writing or on the record why unsupervised time is in the child’s best interests, with paramount consideration given to the child’s safety.
A further addition at subsection (1.5)(a.5) directs courts to strive not to consider information or recommendations that are biased, including bias regarding religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, culture, race, ethnicity, national origin, or disability. For a parent whose evaluation or expert report leans on assumptions rather than evidence, that provision is a tool.
One Clause Worth Reading Before You Panic
C.R.S. 14-10-124(6) provides that in the event of a medical emergency, either party may obtain necessary medical treatment for the child without violating the decision-making order or being in contempt. Parents who do not hold medical decision-making often believe they are stuck. They are not.
EVIDENCE THAT ACTUALLY MOVES A COLORADO JUDGE
Emergency hearings are short. You will not get to tell the whole history. What wins is a small number of specific, verifiable facts presented in order.
Contemporaneous records. A text message sent the night of an incident carries far more weight than a summary written for the hearing. Preserve messages, voicemails, and call logs by exporting them, not by screenshotting selectively.
Third-party observations. A teacher, coach, daycare provider, pediatrician, or neighbor who saw something is worth more than a relative who agrees with you. Courts discount testimony from people with an obvious stake.
Records created by neutral institutions. Emergency room notes, school incident reports, and law enforcement reports were generated for reasons unrelated to your case, which is precisely why judges credit them.
Specific dates and a pattern. Thorburn upheld continued restrictions where the record showed several head injuries over a defined period, each worse than the last, combined with shifting explanations. Pattern plus escalation plus inconsistency is a persuasive structure.
Two things reliably hurt parents. The first is recording a child’s statements repeatedly, which judges often read as coaching. The second is filing an emergency motion about conduct that has been ongoing for a year, because the word in the statute is “imminent,” and a long-standing problem argues against urgency.
FILING IN EL PASO AND TELLER COUNTY
Emergency parenting matters for Colorado Springs and the surrounding area are heard in the 4th Judicial District, which covers both El Paso and Teller counties. District court filings are made at the El Paso County Judicial Building, 270 S. Tejon Street, Colorado Springs.
The clerk’s office in Room S101 is open Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and closes early at 3:30 p.m. on the third Wednesday of each month through 2026. One change is worth putting in your calendar: effective October 1, 2026, the temporary protection order cutoff at the El Paso County courthouse moves to 2:00 p.m. Arriving at 3:00 p.m. with a protection order petition after that date means coming back the next business day.
The 4th Judicial District Self-Help Center can be reached at 719-452-5100 or [email protected], and the Family Court Facilitator’s office at 719-452-5104. Neither can give legal advice, and neither can tell you which of the five tools above fits your facts. Divorce, legal separation, and custody documents can be filed online through the Judicial Branch’s e-filing portal for non-attorneys.
Teller County matters, including cases from Woodland Park, Divide, and Cripple Creek, are handled within the same judicial district. Moran, Allen & Associates Family Law maintains offices in both Colorado Springs and Woodland Park for that reason.
MISTAKES THAT SINK EMERGENCY MOTIONS
- Calling it an emergency when it is a modification. After Dale, mislabeling a schedule change as a restriction imports the endangerment standard and the fee-shifting exposure for no benefit.
- Pleading conclusions instead of facts. Wollert requires particularity. Adjectives about the other parent are not particularity.
- Withholding the child first and filing later. Self-help looks like the very instability you are alleging, and the automatic injunction may already prohibit it.
- Letting the fourteen-day hearing slip. Under Slowinski, a missed hearing terminates the automatic supervision sanction.
- Treating a protection order as the finish line. Temporary care and control under a protection order is capped at one year and is not a parenting plan.
- Stale allegations. Conduct from two years ago rarely supports imminence, though it may well support a best interests modification.
- Ignoring the other state. Under the UCCJEA, filing in Colorado without disclosing an out-of-state case can unravel the order you just obtained.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Can I Get An Emergency Custody Order The Same Day In Colorado?
Sometimes, but not usually through a custody motion. A temporary civil protection order can issue the same day a petition is filed, and it can include temporary care and control of the children. A motion to restrict parenting time produces immediate supervised parenting time on filing, with a hearing inside fourteen days rather than a same-day ruling.
What Happens To The Other Parent’s Time The Moment I File?
If the motion is a properly pleaded motion to restrict under C.R.S. 14-10-129(4), all parenting time during the fourteen-day period must be supervised by an unrelated third party the court deems suitable or by a licensed mental health professional. The parent does not lose contact entirely by default, but unsupervised time stops.
Do I Need A Police Report Or A Caseworker To File?
No. Slowinski holds that a party’s own verification satisfies the statute and no third-party verification is required. Independent documentation still strengthens the case considerably at the hearing.
What If The Courthouse Is Closed?
Contact law enforcement. Every judicial district must have a judge available by telephone to issue emergency protection orders whenever the courts are closed, and that order can award temporary care and control of a child. It expires by the close of the next day of judicial business, so a temporary protection order petition needs to be filed promptly.
Can Grandparents Or Other Relatives File?
A non-parent may petition for allocation of parental responsibilities under C.R.S. 14-10-123 in limited circumstances, including where the child is not in the physical care of either parent, or where the non-parent had physical care of the child for 182 days or more and files within 182 days after that care ended. The constitutional presumption favoring a fit parent’s decisions makes these cases demanding.
Will Winning Temporary Orders Decide The Case?
No. C.R.S. 14-10-108(5)(a) says a temporary order does not prejudice rights to be decided later, and Fickling holds that permanent orders reducing time from a temporary schedule are judged by best interests rather than endangerment.
What If The Other Parent Files A False Emergency Motion Against Me?
Respond in writing and prepare for the hearing. A written response to a motion to restrict may be filed on or before the emergency hearing. If the court finds the motion was substantially frivolous, groundless, or vexatious, C.R.S. 14-10-129(5) requires an award of your reasonable attorney fees and costs.
RESOURCES AND WHERE TO GET HELP
Immediate danger. Call 911.
Colorado Child Abuse and Neglect Hotline. 1-844-CO-4-KIDS (1-844-264-5437), staffed around the clock, with calls routed to the county where the child lives. More information is available from the Colorado Department of Human Services child welfare page.
Court forms. The Parenting Plan, JDF 1113, and the Motion and Affidavit to Change or Restrict Parenting Time, JDF 1406, are published by the Colorado Judicial Branch. Both are free.
4th Judicial District Self-Help Center. 719-452-5100 or [email protected]. Procedural guidance only, not legal advice. Court information for the district is available on the El Paso County page of the Colorado Judicial Branch site.
Family Court Facilitator’s office. 719-452-5104 for general questions about family case procedure in El Paso and Teller counties.
Domestic violence support. The National Domestic Violence Hotline is available at 1-800-799-7233. TESSA of Colorado Springs operates a local 24-hour safeline for El Paso and Teller county residents.
Low-income legal help. Colorado Legal Services has a Colorado Springs office and screens for eligibility by income and case type.
TALK TO A COLORADO SPRINGS FAMILY LAW ATTORNEY
Emergency parenting cases are decided on how well the first filing is drafted and how quickly it reaches a judge. A motion that pleads facts with particularity gets a hearing. A motion that pleads conclusions gets denied, and sometimes gets a fee award entered against the parent who filed it.
Our attorneys handle motions to restrict parenting time, temporary orders, protection orders that include care and control of children, and interstate emergencies under the UCCJEA in El Paso and Teller counties. We can tell you within one conversation which tool fits your facts and what evidence a judge in this district will expect to see.
Call our Colorado Springs office at (719) 447-0762 or our Woodland Park office at (719) 686-7554 to schedule a consultation. If your child is in immediate danger, call 911 first, then call us.
SOURCES
- C.R.S. 14-10-129, Modification of parenting time
- C.R.S. 14-10-124, Best interests of the child
- C.R.S. 14-10-123, Commencement of proceedings concerning allocation of parental responsibilities and automatic temporary injunction
- C.R.S. 14-10-108, Temporary orders in a dissolution case
- C.R.S. 13-14-103, Emergency protection orders
- C.R.S. 13-14-104.5, Procedure for temporary civil protection order
- C.R.S. 13-14-105, Provisions relating to civil protection orders
- C.R.S. 14-13-204, Temporary emergency jurisdiction
- Colorado Judicial Branch, Parenting Plan (JDF 1113)
- Colorado Judicial Branch, El Paso County, 4th Judicial District
- Colorado Department of Human Services, Child Welfare
- In re Marriage of Wollert, 2020 CO 47, 464 P.3d 703
- In re Marriage of Thorburn, 2022 COA 80, 519 P.3d 736
- In re Marriage of Wenciker, 2022 COA 74, 519 P.3d 381
- In re Marriage of Dale, 2025 COA 29, 568 P.3d 1282
- In re Marriage of Slowinski, 199 P.3d 48 (Colo. App. 2008)
- In re Marriage of Fickling, 100 P.3d 571 (Colo. App. 2004)
- Olson v. Priest, 193 Colo. 222, 564 P.2d 122 (1977)
- People in Interest of S.A.G., 2021 CO 38, 487 P.3d 677
- House Bill 24-1122 (civil protection orders, effective January 1, 2025); House Bill 24-1350 (best interests and coercive control, effective August 7, 2024)
This article is general information about Colorado law and is not legal advice. Statutes and court rules change. Consult a licensed Colorado attorney about your specific situation.