Ryan Kalamaya:
Welcome to Divorce At Altitude, a podcast on Colorado family law. I'm Ryan Kalamaya. Each week, along with my business partner and co-host Amy Goscha, or an expert, we discuss a particular topic related to divorce or co-parenting in Colorado. In addition, we have created a short series of lessons that will take you through the legal process of divorce and answer your questions. From simple to complex, divorce isn't easy. The end of a marriage, especially when children are involved, brings a great deal of loss and change. We hope these practical tips and insights will help you on your journey to a new and better life.

Ryan Kalamaya:
You filed for divorce, you engaged in discovery, you went to mediation, and you weren't able to resolve all the disputes. Now what? Now the case is set for permanent orders. Permanent orders is the final trial and it's where the court, there's a hearing and it's with just the judge, is going to hear testimony and consider evidence that is introduced. Typically, these hearings are set for at least one day. Sometimes they can be multi-day or even multi-weeks, depends on the circumstances involved and the size of the case.

Ryan Kalamaya:
The issues that the court is going to consider, and there's going to be, again, testimony and evidence, and evidence can be in the form of exhibits that are agreed to or have been offered into evidence, and pursuant to the rules of evidence have been admitted to the court. That might be bank statements, tax returns, those kinds of things. The court is going to first consider parenting time ad then decision-making, and that's if kids are involved, minor children are involved and they haven't been decided.

Ryan Kalamaya:
The next is the the first issue that the courts can consider for finances is going to be property division. So the court's going to consider and divide marital property. Then depending on how the court divides property, the court's next going to consider maintenance, or otherwise known as the alimony.

Ryan Kalamaya:
After maintenance, then the court's going to go through child support. And the reason is that the court first needs to understand, the property that's allocated to each party, is there any sort of income that's going to be generated from that? Then that's going to implicate maintenance, and then child support is going to be factored in, or the maintenance is going to be factored in when determining child support.

Ryan Kalamaya:
After that, then the court is going to consider attorney's fees. So those is just the general schedule for how a court will conduct a hearing. And like I said, it can be a couple of days, it can be one day, or it can be a couple weeks.

Ryan Kalamaya:
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