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Description: Castle Rock, Colorado family lawyer lawyers represented the parties in a divorce.

In January 2020, father filed a petition for legal separation from mother. The parties had four children, but only one child was a minor during the relevant period of this appeal. The parents agreed to a parenting plan granting mother the majority of time with the minor child.

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On May 15, 2023, the magistrate held a hearing on the parties’ motions. The magistrate found father in contempt. The
magistrate also determined that father’s circumstances had sufficiently changed to warrant modification of his maintenance and child support obligations and calculated new amounts for both based on four distinct time periods. The magistrate’s modification determination was, in part, based on the change in parenting time with the then-minor child spending the majority of time with father instead of mother. Mother filed a petition for district court review of
the magistrate’s order.


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Unless otherwise provided by statute, C.R.M. 7 “is the exclusive method to obtain review of a district court magistrate’s
order or judgment issued in a proceeding in which consent of the parties is not necessary.” C.R.M. 7(a)(1); see People in Interest of K.L-P., 148 P.3d 402, 403 (Colo. App. 2006) (“A petition for district court review of a magistrate’s order is a prerequisite to an appeal.”). “A petition for review shall state with particularity the alleged errors
in the magistrate’s order or judgment . . . .” C.R.M. 7(a)(7).

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Outcome: Affirmed

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