Wells Family law is honored to announce that Chelsea Augelli has joined the firm as an associate. Chelsea has experience working on complex financial matters in divorce, parenting time disputes, child relocation, and child-support matters. Welcome, Chelsea! ...
A Child and Family Investigator (“CFI”) is a court-appointed expert that investigates and makes recommendations to the court regarding how to allocate parental responsibilities in the best interest of the child or children. In other words, the CFI is a neutral third-party that the court appoints to provide an independent...
Wells Family Law is pleased to announce that Kristi Anderson Wells, President and Managing Shareholder of the firm, has been elected as Treasurer of the Family Law Section Executive Council. The Treasurer is an officer of the Executive Council, and serves for a term of five years in ascending positions...
Child support in Colorado family law cases has long been calculated off formulas that attempt to distribute basic child-related monthly costs as if parents were still living in the same household. Parents in divorce, legal separation, juvenile or parental responsibilities (custody) cases use state-approved Child Support Worksheets, inputting the number...
Most people are aware of the traditional model for attorney assistance, Full Representation, in which an attorney represents a client in all aspects of the case until the process is complete. Alternatively, a non-traditional option for attorney assistance is Limited-Scope Representation, also known as “unbundled legal services” or “consulting-only” legal...
In many divorces, the issue of life insurance can be overshadowed by more immediate concerns, such as the division of the marital estate, parenting time, spousal support (“maintenance”), or child support. However, the proper handling of life insurance policies can ensure predictability for both spouses and peace of mind that...
Kristi Anderson Wells, President and Managing Shareholder of Wells Family Law, P.C., has been selected to the Top 100 Colorado Super Lawyers list for the first time in 2021. Kristi has been selected as a Colorado Super Lawyer for seven years running and has twice previously been selected to the...
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended almost every aspect of American life, including state and federal legal systems. In Colorado state courts, there is a backlog of over 14,000 jury trials statewide, including around 10,000 criminal trials. (https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/colorado-courts-face-two-crises-a-crisis-of-confidence-and-a-covid-case-backlog) Despite the fact that Colorado Courts have become somewhat proficient in holding hearings...
In Colorado, there is no legal limit on the number of protection orders that can be in place to restrain or protect a person at one time. Protection order terms can be very broad, such as prohibiting all contact of any kind with the victim. Or they can be very...
The word “prenup” brings to mind teams of high-powered attorneys negotiating late into the night right before a lavish wedding. Horror stories of tearful fiancées forced to sign a document before walking down the aisle abound in our popular culture, an inconvenient blot on our collective imagination of a...