JDF 1414: Support Facts, Sworn
JDF 1414 is Colorado's affidavit in support of child support modification. Courts use it to see whether your numbers and change facts support a new order. Custody anger does not belong here as a substitute for paystubs and consistent totals. Line it up with your sworn financial statement before you file. Parenting allocation fights belong in APR or response work ( JDF 1420), not in a support affidavit dressed up as everything-at-once.
This affidavit is for
- Income and deduction facts tied to support math
- Childcare, insurance, and cost changes with proof
- Dated life changes that hit the guideline inputs
This affidavit is not for
- Primary parenting schedule essays
- Character attacks on the other parent
- Numbers that fight your JDF 1104
Relevant Colorado law
The statutes and appellate decisions below are the ones Colorado courts actually apply here. Educational orientation only — not legal advice. Read the source before you rely on it.
Statutes
- C.R.S. § 14-10-115 — Child Support Guidelines; Determination of Income
Establishes Colorado’s child support guidelines and schedule of basic child support obligations, calculating support from the parents’ combined adjusted gross income and subject to the parents’ ability to pay.
- C.R.S. § 14-10-124 — Best Interests of the Child
Sets the best-interests-of-the-child standard governing allocation of parental responsibilities, directing courts to weigh the statutory best-interest factors when establishing parenting arrangements.
- C.R.S. § 14-10-131 — Modification of Custody or Decision-Making Responsibility
Governs modification of decision-making responsibility: bars a successive motion within two years absent endangerment, and otherwise requires a change in circumstances plus a finding that modification is necessary to serve the child’s best interests.
Key cases
- In re Marriage of Aldrich, 945 P.2d 1370 (Colo. 1997)
A parent seeking to modify child support must prove a substantial and continuing change in circumstances producing at least a ten-percent change; a claimed income drop can be rejected where bank deposits and lifestyle contradict it, and the court need not raise modification theories the moving parent did not.
- In re Marriage of Chalat, 112 P.3d 47 (Colo. 2005)
A child-support obligation incorporated into the divorce decree — including an agreed obligation to pay postsecondary (college) expenses — may be modified only on a showing of substantial and continuing changed circumstances; the court keeps continuing jurisdiction, and the child-support guidelines do not by themselves reopen the order.
- In re Marriage of Evans, 504 P.3d 988 (Colo. App. 2021)
Where a parent concealed income or an asset during the divorce, the court may reopen the matter under C.R.C.P. 16.2(e)(10) and recalculate child support on the parents’ true combined income; nondisclosure does not shield a higher earner from an accurate obligation.
- People ex rel. J.R.T. v. Martinez, 70 P.3d 474 (Colo. 2003)
When deciding whether to impute income to an allegedly underemployed parent under C.R.S. § 14-10-115, the court first asks whether the parent is shirking a child-support obligation by unreasonably foregoing higher-paying work; merely being fired is not automatically “voluntary underemployment” — the court weighs the reasonableness of the parent’s efforts to find comparable work.
Related guides
More Colorado forms
State guides (overview)
General support (not Colorado-specific)
Official source
JDF 1414 (PDF): https://www.coloradojudicial.gov/sites/default/files/2023-07/JDF1414.pdf
JDF 1414 questions
What job does JDF 1414 serve in a modification packet?
It supports a child support modification story with sworn financial facts: income, expenses, insurance, childcare, and the changes that justify a new support figure. It is not where you prove who should have Thursday overnights.
What do parents usually under-document?
Variable income methodology, self-employment reality, all wage sources, childcare invoices, and premium costs. Gaps read like hiding, even when you are just overwhelmed.
Why does this form get mixed into custody stress?
Because modification dockets often bundle topics. Keep support paragraphs on support numbers. Let parenting disputes live in parenting motions and plans, not in a muddled affidavit.
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