By: Curtis Wiberg Plog & Stein, P.C. In my career as a family law attorney, I have seen a lot of problems between divorced spouses as they relate to costs associated with minor children’s school and/or extracurricular expenses. Many divorce orders or separation agreements contain provisions for the parties to share expenses of school and extracurricular activities. As with many things in life, however, the devil is in the details, and ambiguities in what qualifies an appropriate expense, and then how reimbursements are to occur result in conflict, mischief, and ultimately litigation. It is incumbent on parties (and to their attorneys) to button down with specificity which expenses are to be split and procedures for reimbursement to avoid problems. The legal basis for the division of such costs derive from the child support statute, C.R.S. § 14-10-115. As articulated in the Colorado Appeals Court case of In re: Marriage of Laughlin, 932…
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