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Workers’ compensation is a no-fault system. Meaning, if a worker is injured in a workplace accident or if they become sick with an occupational disease, the worker can file a workers’ compensation claim regardless of their own degree of fault. While workers’ compensation covers medical care and provides monthly benefits to the injured worker, it does not compensate the individual for 100% of their pay prior to their injury. Instead, workers’ compensation is less than …

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If you’re getting a divorce for the first time, or if you’re new to the world of child support orders, you may not fully understand how they work. For starters, you cannot stop paying child support if your ex refuses to let you see the kids. If you lose your job, you can’t stop paying either; the child support you owe will continue to add up until a court agrees to modify the existing order – and no, child support is not retroactive …

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If you are recently separated or divorced and you have been ordered to pay child support, it’s important that you understand what can happen if you fall behind on your child support payments. All states, not just Colorado, have a variety of ways to collect child support if a noncustodial parent falls behind, and they’re not pleasant. Local child support agencies in Denver and throughout Colorado can garnish wages, seize funds in bank accounts (including a joint bank account …

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When Does Child Support End in Colorado? Each state has enacted its own laws regarding child support – how much it is, how it ends, and when it can be modified. Generally, child support ends when a child reaches the age of 18, 19, or 21 (in New York) in the United States. For a custody case in Colorado, the parent paying child support may be asking themselves, “When does child support end in Colorado?” …

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Do you hold a professional license? If you’re a real estate agent, an accountant, a doctor or nurse, a veterinarian, a teacher, a notary, or the possessor of another professional or license, you may not know it but your livelihood may be at risk if you fall behind on your child support payments. You see, all 50 states have enacted laws that cancel, revoke or suspend the licenses of non-custodial parents who fail to pay child …

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Unfortunately, this happens more than child custody attorneys would like to admit: The mother and father aren’t getting along or the mother is bitter so she won’t let the father see his children. Sometimes, mothers will go to great lengths to ensure their exes won’t see their kids. For example, a mother may take her children away for the day, or she may take them out of town on the father’s weekend. When mothers hide their children …

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Are you a parent whose former spouse has gone MIA and is not paying child support? Or, perhaps you were never married to your child’s other parent, but you have custody and he or she has not paid child support in a long time. Either way, you haven’t heard from him or her in some time and you haven’t received child support in months, if not years. What can you do? Is all hope lost? Unfortunately, noncustodial parents, the …

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In simple terms, child support is an ongoing, periodic payment made for the benefit of a child following a divorce or separation, usually made from the non-custodial parent to the custodial parent. Colorado follows the “Income Shares Model” of support which estimates the total support amount that parents would spend on children in an intact family unit and splits the financial responsibility between the parents in proportion to their monthly incomes. While the guidelines are …

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