Colorado Roles
Who investigates, who evaluates, who may represent.
Rough sizing: a CFI answers a bounded question on a capped budget; a § 127 evaluation goes deeper when psychological issues drive the dispute; an LLP is representation, not neutrality — a different chair at the table.
Directive-level authority
Child and Family Investigator (CFI)
A court-appointed neutral who INVESTIGATES a defined parental-responsibilities question and files a report with recommendations. Bounded scope, bounded timeline — the lighter instrument.
Cost honesty
The directive caps privately paid CFI investigation-and-report fees at a PRESUMPTIVE $3,250 per appointment — exceeding it takes a written court order with specific findings, even on stipulation.
CJD 04-08 (Chief Justice Directive — the platform renders this authority level as what it is, never dressed as statute)
Statute
Parental Responsibilities Evaluator (§ 127 evaluation)
A licensed mental-health professional ordered under § 14-10-127 to perform an EVALUATION — psychological depth a CFI investigation does not reach — and file a written report on the disputed allocation issues.
Cost honesty
No CJD fee cap — evaluations commonly run to five figures, party-paid subject to allocation. The statute carries training, qualification, and disclosure machinery; scope and cost orders come from the court.
C.R.S. § 14-10-127
Statute
Licensed Legal Paraprofessional (LLP)
Colorado's licensed middle path for family-law representation — LLPs appear in the statute itself (§ 14-10-120.3(1)(a) counts LLP representation toward the affidavit lane's children door).
Cost honesty
Engagement pricing is the professional's own; the license exists precisely to cost less than full counsel. This platform's document capabilities in Colorado remain gated by ⬥ CO_UPL_RESOLVED — the LLP regime is the context, not the platform's license.
C.R.S. § 14-10-120.3(1)(a) (the 2024 amendment); the Colorado Supreme Court's LLP licensure framework
CJD 04-08 is a Chief Justice Directive — court-administration authority. It binds appointments and fees; it is not a statute, and the platform badges it at its own level (the `directive` authority level, CO-2).
Authority locked — retrieved from the hash-pinned corpus