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The five-year reopener: misstate an asset and the judgment stays open

Colorado's mandatory-disclosure rule carries the sharpest after-decree consequence on this platform: where a material asset or liability was misstated or omitted, the court keeps jurisdiction to REOPEN and reallocate the property division for FIVE YEARS after the decree — In re Marriage of Durie (2020 CO 7) confirms the provision's reach, and no separation-agreement clause can promise it away. Concealing property while the case pends also violates the automatic temporary injunction, so the same omission breaks two rules at once. Disclosure completeness is not paperwork here; it is what finality is made of.

The honest note

The rule lives in C.R.C.P. 16.2(e)(10), whose consolidated text is print-official (LexisNexis) — this platform states the doctrine with that deferral named and never quotes a print-official rule. The filing check blocks reopener-waiver clauses on sight.

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C.R.S. § 14-10-107 · #8a19731b

Legal information, not legal advice. Every citation above resolves from this platform's stored official corpus — hash-pinned, source-linked, and honest about its verification status.