Silverthorne, CO Divorce Law Firms & Lawyers

If you want to ?prepare? for a divorce, there are a number of things that you can do: 1) Sit down and talk to your husband about these issues. You?re married; you have a child together? you ought to be able to discuss your concerns. An alternative would be to request that he go to counseling. The counseling could be to address your marital issues and/or to talk through the issues of having an amicable divorce and coming up with a parenting plan for your 14 year old. 2) Start doing some basic financial planning for yourself. If you do get divorced, where are you going to live? What are your financial needs going to be? I recommend assembling a list of your assets and debts. What is a fair way to divide these? 3) Start working on a parenting plan for your child. If you and your husband separate, what type of plan would best serve your daughter? 4) Start researching your divorce issues: talk to some lawyers, research your issues on the internet. I have sections on my website that address the divorce process, the division of property, and spousal maintenance. 5) Again, talk to your husband. If he is unwilling to share financial information with you, that is a pretty big sign that something is wrong. In general, my experience from working on problems is that when left unaddressed, they tend to get worse and slowly become harder and harder to solve.

If you did not get alimony in the original divorce, you cannot get it now. If you got child-support, it can be modified if circumstances have changed. An equitable division of marital property is a final judgment and not subject to being changed. Any deals apart from the court order are probably unenforceable.

If you have a common law marriage you must get a divorce through the legal process and, as part of that process you can get a permanent determination of who is entitled to exclusive control of the residence. Common law marriage in Colorado is a highly disputable possibility, but regardless of whether or not one exists you can pursue a Civil Protection Order based on the fear of harm from his tendency toward violence. You need to consult a lawyer to learn more about the law and you potential options.