Colorado Parenting
Not custody — ALLOCATION OF PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES.
The vocabulary is the law here: Colorado replaced the custody label with two allocable things — decision-making responsibility and parenting time — governed by the § 14-10-124 best-interests factors. Filings that use the replaced term draft against the statute's grammar, and this platform's Filing Check blocks it — though the word itself survives in § 14-10-131, which still governs modification of decision-making responsibility under a pre-1999 custody decree.
The allocation axis
Decision-making responsibility
Major decisions — education, health, religion — allocated jointly or to one party, subject-by-subject.
The allocation axis
Parenting time
The schedule itself; § 124 best-interests factors govern.
The best-interests structure (§ 14-10-124)
Organizing buckets tracking the statute — the exact factor text renders from the stored corpus row in the Authority Seal below; this page never paraphrases a factor as a quote.
Wishes — parents' and the child's (maturity-weighted)
The child's relationships with parents, siblings, and significant others
Adjustment to home, school, and community
Mental and physical health of all individuals
Each party's ability to encourage the child's relationship with the other
Past pattern of involvement — time commitment and mutual support
Physical proximity of the parties
Domestic violence, abuse, and neglect — the safety overlay controls
The adjacent machinery, named: grandparent and great-grandparent disputes run their own section (§ 14-10-124.5); a § 14-10-127 evaluation is the deeper neutral instrument when psychological issues drive the dispute (see the CFI · PRE · LLP page for who does what and what it costs); parenting-time modification and relocation run §§ 14-10-129/129.5 — relocation has its own page here. Allocation is a findings-driven court decision; organizers structure the record, and no outcome is promised, ever.
Authority locked — retrieved from the hash-pinned corpus