Family Law · Children & Parenting
For parents, the stakes are personal every day.
Children and parenting questions are rarely abstract. They shape school weeks, work schedules, holidays, communication, and the routines that make a child feel secure.
Keep the focus where it belongs.
Lowenberg Family Law assists with parenting plans, allocation of parental responsibilities, parenting time, decision-making, child support, relocation questions, post-decree modifications, enforcement, contempt, and disputes that arise after permanent orders.
A useful plan has to work in real life. It should account for the facts of the family, not simply use a generic schedule that looks complete on paper. When safety, children, property, or an immediate court order requires attention, early legal advice can be especially important.
Questions that deserve careful attention
- What routines are already working for the children?
- How will school calendars, exchanges, activities, and travel be handled?
- Which decisions need shared communication, and what happens when agreement is difficult?
- Has a change in work, health, location, or a child’s needs made an existing order unworkable or raised a need for modification or enforcement?
A clear plan can lower the temperature.
The goal is not to turn children into evidence or messengers. It is to develop a practical path that keeps adult conflict from taking over their day-to-day lives.
Questions people ask
Questions that keep the focus on real life.
What is a Colorado parenting plan, and what does it cover?
A Colorado parenting plan addresses a child’s parenting time, important decisions, and child support. It can also address school-year, summer, holiday, travel, exchange, communication, health-insurance, and expense arrangements. The details should fit the child and family rather than follow a generic schedule, and a final order depends on the current process and the facts of the case.
What is the difference between parenting time and decision-making?
Parenting time is the schedule for when a child is with each parent or other party. Decision-making concerns specified important choices, such as education, medical, dental, mental-health, religious, extracurricular, or passport matters. Routine choices and major decisions can be handled differently, and a particular order depends on the family’s circumstances and current law.
How can unmarried parents get a Colorado parenting plan?
Colorado provides a parental-responsibilities process for people seeking a parenting plan outside a marriage or civil union. That process can address parenting time, important decisions, and child support. Eligibility, parentage, jurisdiction, another pending case, and the child’s history can affect the process, so current court guidance and the facts should be reviewed before relying on a general description.
Can parenting time or relocation be changed after an order?
You may be able to ask the court to change an existing order, but a request is not the same as a guaranteed result. Colorado uses separate procedures for parenting-time changes, decision-making changes, and a move that would take a child far from the other parent. Timing, notice, the existing order, child-support effects, and the family’s facts can all matter.
What can happen if a parent is not following a court-ordered schedule?
Colorado has a court process for parenting-time disputes when an existing order is not being followed. Depending on the filings and facts, the court may require mediation, decide from the written information, or set a hearing; possible remedies can vary. Safety concerns, restrictions, protection orders, and urgent circumstances need careful, fact-specific review rather than a one-size-fits-all response.
Talk to a Human
Talk through the real schedule.
Start with the children’s routines, the current conflict, and the decision that needs to be made.