Colorado Property
Equitable — not automatically equal, and never fault-weighted
Colorado divides MARITAL property in proportions the court deems just after considering all relevant factors — expressly “without regard to marital misconduct.” Separate property stays out, but its INCREASE IN VALUE during the marriage is on the table.
The § 113(1) factor structure
Each spouse's contribution to acquiring the marital property — including the homemaker contribution
The value of the property set apart to each spouse
Economic circumstances at division time — including the family-home / majority-time-parent consideration
Increases or decreases in separate property's value during the marriage — and depletion of separate property for marital purposes
Classification, told straight
Marital = acquired during the marriage
Regardless of title, subject to the statutory exceptions (gift, inheritance, pre-marital, excluded-by-agreement).
THE APPRECIATION LINE
Separate property itself stays separate — but its increase in value during the marriage is marital and divisible. Valuation dates and methods are counsel questions; this platform organizes, never appraises.
No-fault division
Conduct arguments do not move the property needle in Colorado — the statute forbids it.
Disclosure interplay
Property division rests on the sworn disclosures — and a misstated or omitted asset arms the FIVE-YEAR reopener (C.R.C.P. 16.2(e)(10); see the disclosure module).
Authority locked — retrieved from the hash-pinned corpus
What is just is the court's judgment on the statute's factors — this organizer characterizes and inventories; it never appraises, and no split is promised. The automatic temporary injunction (§ 14-10-107) restrains dispositions of marital property while the case pends. Legal information, not legal advice.