Colorado Divorce Self-Help Center

If you purchase a DivorceWriter Colorado divorce, you are selecting the following forms:

• Case Information Sheet (JDF 1000)
• Petition for Dissolution of Marriage(JDF 1101)
• Petitioner's Sworn Financial Statement (JDF 1111) with Supporting Schedule (JDF 1111-SS)
• Co-Petitioner's Sworn Financial Statement (JDF 1111) with Supporting Schedule (JDF 1111-SS)
• Petitioner's Mandatory Disclosure (JDF 1125)
• Co-Petitioner's Mandatory Disclosure (JDF 1125)
• Petitioner's Certificate of Compliance (JDF 1104)
• Co-Petitioner's Certificate of Compliance (JDF 1104)
• Spousal Maintenance Advisement
• Separation Agreement (JDF 1115)
• Decree of Dissolution of Marriage (JDF 1116)
• Affidavit for Decree without Appearance of the Parties (JDF 1201) (For divorces with no minor children only)

If you indicate that you have minor children, you are also selecting these additional forms:

• Parenting Plan (JDF 1113)
• Child Support Obligation Worksheet (Worksheet A for Sole Physical Care or Worksheet B for Shared Physical Care)
• Notice to Set Hearing (JDF 1123)
• Notice of Hearing (JDF 1124)
• Motion for Absentee Testimony (JDF 1309) and Order for Absentee Testimony (JDF 1310) (If one spouse is unable attend the hearing)
• Support Order (JDF 1117)

• Create a detailed schedule for vacations, holidays, and special occasions, including beginning and end times, or choose to keep your regular schedule during those times.
• List your parenting schedule priorities to resolve potential conflicts before they arise.
• Designate the amount of time each parent will spend with the children.

• The parties agree otherwise in a written stipulation after July 1, 1997;
• If the child is mentally or physically disabled, the court or the delegate child support enforcement unit may order child support, including payments for medical expenses or insurance or both, to continue beyond the age of nineteen;
• If the child is still in high school or an equivalent program, support continues until the end of the month following graduation. A child who ceases to attend high school prior to graduation and later reenrolls is entitled to support upon reenrollment and until the end of the month following graduation, but not beyond age twenty-one. See Colorado Revised Statute 14-10-115(13). (IV) If the child marries, the child shall be considered emancipated as of the date of the marriage. If the marriage is annulled, dissolved, or declared invalid, child support may be reinstated. (V) If the child enters into active military duty, the child shall be considered emancipated.

• The extraordinary medical expenses incurred for treatment of either parent or a current spouse;
• Extraordinary costs associated with parenting time;
• The gross disparity in income between the parents;
• The ownership by a parent of a substantial nonincome producing asset;
• Consistent overtime not considered in gross income; or
• Income from employment that is in addition to a full-time job or that results in the employment of the obligor more than forty hours per week or more than what would otherwise be considered to be full-time employment.