Colorado Deadlines
Ninety-one and ninety-one — and the floor runs from JURISDICTION.
The domicile gate is 91 days before filing. The decree floor is 91 days from jurisdiction over the respondent, however acquired — the earliest trigger controls, and joining as CO-PETITIONER is itself a trigger: file together and the clock starts that day. The automatic temporary injunction binds from filing and service; the § 120.3 affidavit lane skips the courtroom and shortens nothing.
The decree floor — enter whichever jurisdiction triggers happened (the EARLIEST controls)
The four Colorado clock truths
91-day domicile
One party must have been domiciled in Colorado for the 91 days before filing.
C.R.S. § 14-10-106(1)(a)(I)
91-day decree floor — from JURISDICTION, not from filing
The decree can enter once 91 days have elapsed since the court acquired jurisdiction over the respondent: C.R.C.P. 4 service, joining as co-petitioner, or an appearance. The earliest trigger controls.
C.R.S. § 14-10-106(1)(a)(III)
The automatic temporary injunction
Filing brings Colorado's built-in injunction (§ 14-10-107) — property, harassment, insurance, and children leave-state limits bind automatically; no separate motion.
C.R.S. § 14-10-107
The affidavit lane shortens nothing
Final orders on affidavit (§ 14-10-120.3) skip the courtroom, not the clock: the statute says the filing “does not shorten any statutory waiting period.”
C.R.S. § 14-10-120.3(2)
Authority locked — retrieved from the hash-pinned corpus
The floor is when a decree CAN enter, not when it will — dockets, disclosures, and the court's calendar set the real pace. C.R.C.P. day counts (the response window on the summons, the 16.2 machinery) are the rules' own; their consolidated text is print-official, so this platform states them as practice with the deferral named and never quotes them. Verify urgent dates with the clerk. Legal information, not legal advice.