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Equitable division — and separate property's APPRECIATION is on the table
Colorado divides MARITAL property in proportions the court deems just, without regard to marital misconduct — equitable, not equal by mandate. The § 14-10-113 definitions do quiet, load-bearing work: separate property stays separate, but its APPRECIATION during the marriage counts as marital property subject to division. And the division shares a nervous system with the disclosure machinery: the five-year reopener is what happens when the property statement was incomplete.
The honest note
What is just is the court's judgment on the statute's factors — organizers characterize and inventory; no split is promised.
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