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Sarah, three denied Friday exchanges in a row is an exchange-compliance problem - a documented pattern of order violation, and Colorado courts take that seriously when it is laid out clearly. You are not overreacting, and you are not stuck.
Here is the part that matters: most of the work is already done. I pulled the pieces out of your Talking Parents export and your filed order and turned them into a clean, dated record you can hand to your attorney today. Below is what I organized for you, and the two decisions that are actually yours to make.
I pulled them from your Talking Parents export and created dated case events tied to your 6:00 PM scheduled time: 05/09 ("I’m keeping Mia this weekend, don’t bother coming"), 05/16 ("Not this week. We have plans"), and 05/23 ("She’s sick, no visit").
She canceled citing illness on 05/23, but the day-trip photos posted 05/24 contradict that. I saved both and linked them so the inconsistency is one click away for your lawyer.
Ready to send on Talking Parents: "Per our order, I will be at the library this Friday 05/30 at 6:00 PM for my parenting time with Mia. Please confirm." That puts your readiness on the record without escalating.
The three denials, plus three earlier short or late exchanges, are now a single timeline. Three weeks in a row is the pattern - courts respond to patterns, not isolated incidents.
Three consecutive denials is enforcement territory. Under C.R.S. § 14-10-129.5 (disputes concerning parenting time), the court’s remedies can include make-up parenting time and, in some cases, attorney fees. Your attorney can move quickly - this also bears on the other parent’s pending June motion.
With this record, your attorney can advise whether to enforce the current order or pursue the schedule change you are aiming for. That call is yours to make together - I have handed you the organized facts to make it well.
One honest caution: your recent parenting-time logs were thin before today, and I back-filled them from your messages - confirm those dates yourself, because a court wants a clean record, not a reconstruction. And include your own late return on 04/18; leaving it out is exactly the gap the other side will use against you.
This is not legal advice.
- 1) [statute] C.R.S. § 14-10-129.5 - Disputes Concerning Parenting Time (effective: 2023)
- 2) [statute] C.R.S. § 14-10-129 - Modification of Parenting Time (effective: 2023)