Home About Us Testimonials Services FAQ Links Contact Child Support Laws Search By State: Find your State.	Colorado State Profile Updated on 29 Jun 2006 Certified on 04 Sep 2007 A. General/State-At-A-Glance B. UIFSA C. Reciprocity D. Age of Majority E. Statute of Limitations F. Support Details G. Income Withholding H. Paternity I. Support Order Establishment J. Support Enforcement K. Modification and Review/Adjustment L. Lump Sum Payments A. General/State-At-A-Glance A1. What is your State's program administration/operation type (State administered/State operated, State administered/County operated, or a combination)? State Administered/County Operated A2. How many local IV-D offices are in your State (excluding agencies with cooperative agreements)? 64 offices A3. With what types of agencies do you have cooperative agreements? All programs operate through the County Department of Social Services, many of which contract with private counsel. Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert and Lincoln counties have a cooperative agreement with the District Attorney in Arapahoe County. The El Paso and Teller County programs have obtained a purchase of services agreement with Policy Studies Inc. There are eight counties that have a limited purchase of service agreement to collect public assistance debt only cases. A4. Does your state have statutes setting forth the attorney-client relationship between the state's attorney and the agency only?   A4.1. If so, what is the statutory citation?   A4.2. Did your state have the State's Bar Counsel issue an opinion setting for the attorney-client relationship?   A4.3. If so, please explain.   B. UIFSA B1. What is the enactment date of your State's Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA)? 4/20/93 B2. What is the effective date of your State's Act? 1/1/95 B3. What is the statutory citation for your State's Act? C. 14-5-101 through 14-5-903 Colorado Revised Statutes 1998 B4. What version of UIFSA has your state implemented (i.e the 1996 or 2001 version)?   B4.1. If your state has implemented the 2001 version, when was it implemented? 2001 B5. Optional comments regarding your State's UIFSA Act. July 1, 2004 C. Reciprocity C1. With what foreign countries does your State reciprocate? The following provinces in Canada: Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Ontario, Saskatchewan and the Yukon Territory, Australia, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, Norway, Poland and the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland). C1.1. Does your state exercise its option to receive FFP for enforcement of spousal-only orders for foreign reciprocating countries?   C1.2. If yes, please explain.   C2. Has your State established reciprocity with any tribal courts? No C2.1. If yes, list the tribes and identify services provided, if less than full services.   D. Age of Majority D1. What is the age of majority in your State? For child support orders entered prior to July 1, 1997, unless a court finds that a child is otherwise emancipated, emancipation occurs and child support terminated when the child attains nineteen years of age. D2. What is the statutory cite for the age of majority? 14-10-115 (1.5)(a) Colorado Revised Statutes 1998 D3. If not addressed in the order, at what age is child support automatically terminated as a matter of State law? Qualify, if necessary. Colorado's age of emancipation was lowered from 21 to 19 years of age. There are still orders that state child support will continue until 21 years of age and are enforceable unless review and adjustment is completed. D4. Does the date of the order impact what law is applied? No D4.1. If so, please explain.   D5. Does child support end if the child leaves the household but does not emancipate? No D5.1. Optional comments regarding emancipation.   D6. Does your State allow support to be paid beyond the age of majority under any circumstances (e.g. the child is handicapped or in college)? Yes D6.1. If so, please explain. If the parties agree otherwise in a written stipulation after July 1, 1991, or the child is mentally or physically disabled. If the child is still in high school or an equivalent program, support continues until the end of the month following graduation but not beyond the age of 21. D7. Does your state automatically reduce current support owed for remaining children after one of the children in an order reaches the age of majority or other wise emancipates?   D7.1. If yes, please describe the procedure.   E. Statute of Limitations E1. What is your State's statute of limitations for collection of past due support? No limitations. Although if the arrears are reduced to Judgment there is a 20 year statute of limitations on the Judgment. E2. What is your State's statute of limitations for paternity establishment? 18 years of age if action initiated by custodial parent; 21 years of age if action is initiated by child. E3. Is dormancy revival/renewal possible? Yes E3.1. Please explain the circumstances when possible, and the length of time possible. Judgments are renewable prior to the 20-year expiration. F. Support Details F1. What guideline type or method does your State use to calculate child support (e.g., Shared Income Model, Percentage of Income Model, Melson Formula)? Shared Income Model. F2. Does your State charge interest on missed arrears? Yes F2.1. If yes, please indicate the amount of interest charged and any related conditions. Under Colorado Revised Statutes, interest may be calculated for child support arrearages. The following interest percentages can be calculated: prior to June 30, 1975, 6% simple interest; July 1, 1975, through June 30, 1979, 8% simple interest; July 1, 1979 through June 30, 1986, 8% compounded interest; an July 1, 1986, through the persent 12 percent compounded interest. F3. Does your State charge interest on retroactive support? Yes F3.1. If yes, please indicate the amount of interest charged and any related conditions. From date of order forward. A judgment is not required. "See response to F2.1" F4. Does your State charge interest on adjudicated arrears? Yes F4.1. If yes, please indicate the amount of interest charged and any related conditions. See response to F2.1 F5. Will your State enforce a medical debt for 50% of the uninsured portion of a medical bill? No F5.1. If so, under what circumstances?   F6. Have you elected to recover costs or charge fees in your State Plan? Yes F6.1. If yes, what costs are recovered from/fees charged to the obligee? Refund intercept fee of $25. F6.2. What costs are recovered from/fees charged to the obligor? Colorado will recover birth and genetic testing costs upon the establishment of paternity from the obligor. Service of process in some cases. F7. Does your State recover costs on behalf of the initiating State? Yes F7.1. Optional comments regarding recovering of initiating State's fees. Colorado will only recover genetic testing costs upon the establishment of paternity. F8. Please provide a citation for your State's long-arm statute to establish and/or enforce child support. 14-5-201 Colorado Revised Statutes 1998 F9. Does your State establish, enforce, or modify spousal maintenance orders? No F9.1. If yes, under what circumstances?   F10. Does your State require the initiating State to include information about the new spouse or partner upon a request for establishment or modification (See General Testimony, See AT 05-03)? No F10.1. Optional comments regarding required information on spouse or partner.   G. Income Withholding G1. What term(s) does your State use to refer to income withholding (e.g., wage withholding)? Income Assignment G2. What specific source of income is not subject to withholding? All income types can be withheld. G3. Does your State have any limits on income withholding in addition to the Consumer Credit Protection Act (CCPA) limits? No G3.1. If yes, what are those limits?   G4. What is the allowable fee per pay period for processing income withholding payments? The employer, trustee or other payor of funds may extract a processing fee of up to five dollars per month from the remainder of the obligor's income after the deductions and withholding. G5. After receiving an income withholding order or notice, what is the date by which the employer is required to implement income withholding? An income assignment shall take effect no later than the first pay period that begins at least fourteen days after the mailing date on the notice of income assignment. G6. What is the date by which an employer must remit amounts withheld from an employee's pay? The employer shall forward payment within seven business days after the date of each deduction G7. What are your State's procedures for sanctioning employers for not implementing income withholding? If an employer fails to abide by the terms in the notice of income assignment they may be held in contempt of court. G8. What is the penalty to an employer for failure to remit payments withheld? The employer may be held liable for an amount up to the accumulated amount the employer should have withheld from the obligor's income. G9. Does your State allow direct income withholding of unemployment insurance benefits across State lines? No G9.1. Optional comments regarding direct withholding of UI benefits across State lines.   G10. Does your State allow direct income withholding of workers' compensation benefits across State lines? Yes G10.1. Optional comments regarding direct withholding of WC benefits across State lines.   G11. How does an obligor contest income withholding in your State? Once an income assignment has been issued, no further judicial appeals are permitted. G12. When the obligor has more than one claim for child support against his/her income, indicate your State's priority scheme for income withholding orders (e.g., employer should allocate available amount for withholding equally among all orders or prorate available amount across orders). A. 1. Current monthly child support and maintenance when included in the child support order for all income assignments. 2. A specific dollar amount applied toward medical support, if ordered by the court (not health insurance premiums). 3. Child support debt, arrears, and retroactive support due, including medical support arrears. 4. Maintenance only. The amount of support is prorated among the income assignments according to the amount due in each priority level. G12.1. If an employer in your State receives more than one income withholding order for child support from other States, can the employer request your assistance? Yes G12.2. If assistance is not available, explain how employers should proceed. Please provide a citation for the State law that governs how they should proceed. 14-14-111.5 (b)(I)(A) Colorado Revised Statutes 1998. G13. Does your state require any mandatory deductions, such as union dues, medical insurance premiums, etc., to arrive at net pay from gross pay when calculating disposable income for child support purposes?   G14. When does your state require the employer to send notice of an employee's termination?   G15. How long should an employer retain the IWO after termination of an employee, in anticipation of reinstating the withholding should the employee be rehired?   G16. Does the State charge any fee to the obligor that the employer is required to withhold and remit to the State?   G17. Does your State offer an alternate web-based payment mechanism in addition to paper and EFT/EDI?   G18. Can a direct income withholding be sent to any of the following in your State: employer, financial institution (explain what institutions), Bureau of Workers Compensation, or other income payer?   G19. If there is insufficient income for an employer to withhold for both the total amount of child support and medical support, describe your State's prioritization between child support and medical support.   H. Paternity H1. When your State enters an order establishing paternity, are issues of custody and visitation also addressed? No H1.1. If yes, please explain.   H2. What is the percentage of probability for genetic testing that creates a rebuttable or conclusive presumption of paternity? A rebuttable presumption of paternity is created when the genetic tests results show that the probability is ninety seven percent or higher. H3. Optional comments regarding paternity acknowledgment conclusive legislation. A duly executed voluntary acknowledgment of paternity is considered a legal finding of paternity. A rebuttable presumption of paternity is created when the biological father acknowledges paternity. H4. What is the effective date of the State law that makes paternity acknowledgments conclusive? 07/01/1997 H4.1. Were acknowledgments prior to that effective date rebuttable? Yes H4.2. Optional comments regarding paternity acknowledgments prior to that date.   H5. Does marriage constitute a rebuttable presumption of paternity? Yes H5.1. How is the presumption rebutted? Marriage creates a presumption that may be rebutted in an appropriate action only by clear and convincing evidence. H6. If the father's name is on the birth certificate and paternity has not been established by any other means does this mean that paternity is conclusively determined? No H6.1. If not, briefly explain. The father's name on the birth certificate creates a presumption that may be rebutted in an appropriate action only by clear and convincing evidence. H7. Does your State have any other paternity-related presumptions? Yes H7.1. If yes, briefly explain. (1) If before the child's birth, the parties have attempted to marry, and if the attempted marriage could be declared invalid only by a court, the child is born during or within three hundred days after its termination, or the attempted marriage is invalid without a court order, the child is born within three hundred days after the termination of cohabitation. (2) If after the child's birth, he and the child's natural mother have married and he acknowledged paternity in writing or he has been obligated to support the child under a written voluntary promise or by court/administrative order. H8. Does your State have a putative fathers' registry? No H8.1. If so, what is the name of that entity?   H9. Are there any fees for requesting searches, paternity documents, and data from your State Bureau of Vital Statistics? Yes H9.1. Please describe any circumstances under which these fees may be waived. There are no circumstances under which these fees may be waived. H10. Is common law marriage recognized in your State? Yes H10.1. If yes, briefly describe the standard that defines common law marriage. The man and woman are free to enter into a marriage contract, neither is married to another person, and both parties are of the legal age (18). The man and woman hold themselves out to the public as married: Such as sharing a joint checking account, filing income tax returns or putting both names on property titles as husband and wife. H10.2. When did your current common law standard go into effect?   H10.3. If there was a common law standard in effect prior to your current standard, what was that standard and when did it go into effect?   H11. When the custodial parent and/or other witnesses are not able to appear in person for paternity hearings, what methods of testimony are acceptable (e.g., written, videotape, teleconferencing) Persons may testify or be deposed by telephone, audiovisual means or other electronic means. H12. Please give the cite for your State's long arm statute and list any special provisions. 14-5-201 Colorado Revised Statutes 1998 H13. Does your State recover genetic testing costs for other States? Yes H13.1. If so, please explain. Colorado will attempt to obtain order for genetic testing costs. H14. Are there any other documents that are required to get the father's name on the birth certificate (e.g. is an acknowledgement of paternity needed)?   H15. What is the effective date of the State law that makes a father's name on the birth certificate a conclusive determination of paternity?   H16. If there is more than one child with the same custodial parent, and the same alleged father, should one set of documents be sent to your state (with a paternity affidavit for each child) or should a separate packet be sent for each child?   I. Support Order Establishment I1. Does your State use an administrative or a judicial process to establish a support obligation? Both I1.1. If your State can establish under both, under what circumstances would the administrative process be used? At all times except for circumstances listed under I1.2. I1.2. Under what circumstances would the judicial process be used? A. A Colorado court order which establishes a monthly child support obligation exists, or an order exists in Colorado which could be modified to establish a monthly child support obligation, or B. The county director or designate IV-A staff has made a finding of good cause exemption from referral to the Child Support Enforcement Unit, or C. The case requires paternity establishment and the case involves a presumed father and one or more alleged father(s) or the case involves multiple alleged fathers, or D. The obligor is incarcerated for a future period of one year or more, or E. One or both of the parents is under age 18, or F. The case is a responding interstate case and there is a court or administrative order which established a periodic child support obligation. The order may have been issued in any state. I1.3. If your State uses an administrative process, provide the statutory citations for your State's administrative procedures. 26-13.5-101 through 26-13.5-113 Colorado Revised Statutes 1998. I2. In setting support under your State's guidelines, whose income is considered in addition to the NCP (e.g., new spouse's or child's) The financial resources of the child. I3. What criteria for rebutting your presumptive guidelines have been established in your State? The courts may deviate from the guideline where its application would be inequitable, unjust or inappropriate. Any such deviation shall be accompanied by written or oral findings by the court specifying the reasons for the deviation. I4. Will your State establish support orders for prior periods? Yes I4.1. If so, for what prior periods (e.g., birth of the child, date of separation, prenatal expenses, 5 years retroactive)? * County Policy will determine establishment of support for a prior period. (1) An order for support or a prior period may be enter for those months the custodial party received public assistance or (2) under the dissolution of marriage statute from the date of the parties' physical separation or the filing of the petition or upon service upon the obligor, whichever date is latest for non-public assistance cases or (3) under the Uniform Parentage Act, and the juvenile support statute an order for support may be entered for a reasonable amount for the period prior to the entry of the order establishing paternity and support. I4.2. What information or documentation does your State require to proceed? The periods of time the custodial parent received public assistance. I4.3. Will your State allow a petition for support when the only issue is retroactive support? Yes I4.4. If there are limitations upon your State's ability to establish support for prior periods, please specify. None. I5. What actions can your State perform using the administrative process? Does your State use an administrative process for paternity, establishment, modification and the enforcement of child support?   I6. What is your State's statutory authority for the administrative process?   I7. Is there a local State law that allows the interstate administrative subpoena?   I8. Does your State require that a custodial person (who is not one of the biological parents) to have legal custody of a child before establishing an order for support for that child when public assistance is being expended?   I9. Does your State require that a custodial person (who is not one of the biological parents) to have legal custody of a child before establishing an order for support for that child when public assistance is/or is not being expended?   I10. Does your State require that a custodial person (who is not one of the biological parents) to have legal custody of a child before enforcing an order for support that was issued as the biological parents as the parties for non public assistance cases?   I11. When your state has issued an order that reserves support, and now child support should be ordered, should the other state request an establishment or a modification action?   J. Support Enforcement J1. Indicate whether your state has the following enforcement remedies available. Also indicate what procedures are available (i.e, judicial, administrative, or both?   J1.1. Are your State income tax refund procedures judicial, administrative, or both? Administrative. J2. Is the lien process in your State judicial, administrative or both? Administrative. J2.1. What are the trigger criteria for filing a lien? Any arrearage J2.2. Where is your State liens filed? RP-County clerk and recorder where property located PP-Central Indexing System Vehicles-County clerk and Recorder, except Denver County: DMV J2.3. Does your State charge a fee for filing a lien? Yes J2.4. If so, please indicate the amount.   J.3. Does your State enforce property seizure and sale? Yes J3.1. Are the property seizure and sale procedures judicial, administrative, or both? Judicial. J4. Are the MSFIDM Freeze and Seize procedures in your State judicial, administrative, or both? Administrative. J4.1. When must a non-custodial parent (NCP) receive notice that a MSFIDM Freeze and Seize action is an enforcement remedy and may be used by the State to collect deliquent child support? When case becomes delinquent J4.2. Does your State's income withholding definition include amounts in financial institutions? No J4.3. Does a new notice have to be sent when intent to Freeze and Seize is sent? No J4.3.1 If so, who notifies the NCP, the State or Financial Institution?   J5. What are the time frames if a new notice of intent to Freeze and Seize must be sent? N/A J5.1. What are the criteria that must be met to deem an obligor eligible for Freeze and Seize action in your state? $2500 minimum delinquency. No specified number of months delinquent. Trust and custodial accounts are exempt per state law. Joint accounts are exempt at this time. J5.2. What is the minimum dollar amount that the obligor must be delinquent prior to becoming eligible for asset seizure?   J5.3. Is there a specified amount of time for the obligor to be delinquent prior to proceeding with Freeze and Seize? 20 days for a non-mandated harship appeal. J5.3. 1. If yes, please provide the time frame.   J5.4. Are only a certain percentage of the obligor's financial assets eligible for Freeze and Seize?   J5.4.1. If yes, please provide the percentage.   J5.4.2 . Is the percentage different for joint accounts?   J5.4.3. If yes, please provide the amount.   J5.5. Does your state require that a minimum amount of money must be in a financial account for the funds to be eligible for Freeze and Seize action? If so please provide the amount.   J5.6. Who is responsible for applying the minimum amount, your State or the Financial Institution?   J5.7. How long does the obligor and/or account holders have to contact your State child support enforcement and/or court to challenge the Freeze and Seize action?   J5.8. If State law and/or policy allows for a second contest to Freeze and Seize action, how long does the obligor and/or joint account holder have to contact your state child support agency or court to challenge the Freeze and Seize action?   J5.9. On what basis can an obligor and/or other account holder challenge/contest a freeze and seize action?   J5.10. Is your State's complaint review process judicial, administrative or both? Administrative. Obligor objects to county agency. Obligor can also appeal to State agency then to court. J5.11. What are your State's penalties for incorrect seizures? None J5.12. Is the second challenge administrative, judicial or both?   J5.13. What are your State's appeal time frame, unique appeal requirements and recourse for non-debtor accounts? Timeframe to be determined.. Obligor can object based on hardship. Recourse for non-debtor to be determined. J5.14. Is the Freeze and Seize operation in your state centralized or automated? Not centralized. Automated. AEI process may be manual process. J5.15. Are there additional Freeze and Seize requirements or limitations not otherwise noted in this profile? Target date for implementation of the freeze and seize processd in 2000. J5.16. Has your state established a minimum benefit amount that must be met for a financial institution to proceed with the Freeze and Seize action?   J5.16.1. If yes, what is the amount?   J5.17. Does your state have procedures in place to liquidate non-liquid assets (e.g., stocks, bonds, etc)?   J5.17.1 If yes, please provide the state authority and the procedures Financial Institutions should follow to liquidate non-liquid assets.   J5.18. Does your state law/policy instruct the Financial Institution or state to hold the frozen assets during the challenge/appeal time frame and/or freeze period?   J5.19. How long does the Financial Institution have to send the obligor's assets to your state child support enforcement agency?   J5.19.1 . If yes, please define.   J6. Does your state withhold state funds or benefits? Yes J6.1. If yes, is the method of withholding state benefits judicial, administrative, or both? Administrative withholding of workman compensation benefits, unemployment benefits, state lottery, state vendor payments. J7. Please describe any other administrative enforcement procedures your state may have. None. J8. Please describe any other judicial enforcement procedures your state may have. Contempt of court, Rule 69 Procedure (judicial hearing held to solicit testimony regarding employment /assets) J9. If your state has established specific procedures for registering administrative liens, what are the procedures that another state must follow? A real property lien must be filed with the county Clerk and Recorder's Real Estate Records section in the county where the obligor owns property. J10. Which of our state's enforcement remedies are available without registration? Income Assignment J11. Describe your state's registration and enforcement procedures. A notice of registration of the order is sent to the non-registering party advising that a hearing to contest the validity or enforcement of the registered order must be requested within twenty days after notice. Failure to contest within this time period will result in confirmation of the order by operation of law. J12. After registration, describe additional judicial procedures required, if any, to enforce a support order. None J13. Has your state adopted the Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act (UEFJA)? Yes J13.1. If yes, please provide the statutory citation. 13-53-101 through 13-53-108 Colorado Revised Statutes 1998 J14. Does your state's law require financial institutions doing business in your state to accept Freeze and Seize actions directly from other states?   J14.1. If no, describe the process for a Freeze and Seize action from another state's IV-D agency (e.g., Transmittal #3, Transmittal #1, and list additional documentation required).   J15. Does your state use credit bureau reporting as an enforcement method?   J16. Provide which credit bureaus your state report an obligor's child support information?   J17. Is the method for credit bureau reporting judicial, administrative or both?   J18. In an interstate case, does your state report an obligor's child support information to credit bureaus when it is the initiating state, the responding state, or both?   J19. What are your state's criteria for reporting an obligor's child support information to credit bureaus?   K. Modification and Review/Adjustment K1. With what frequency are reviews conducted in IV-D cases (e.g., every year, every three years)? By request of the custodial party, non-custodial party or the IV-D office. K2. On what basis are the reviews conducted (e.g., on request of the CP, NCP in non-TANF cases, automatically in TANF cases)? By request of the custodial party or non- custodial parent. K3. Briefly describe your State's modification procedure. Review notice and income and expense affidavits are forwarded to the parties and financial information is gathered. A guideline calculation will be completed on the 40th day following the notice. If the results of the guideline calculation meet the criteria listed in response (3) below, a post review notice is sent to the parties. The parties have 40 days to challenge the results of the review. The parties have a right to request a judicial determination of the findings. K4. What are your criteria for modification (e.g., $50 or 20% from present order)? If the request for review is less than 36 months from the entry of the order, there must be a difference of at least ten-percent. If the request for review is greater than 36 months from the entry of the order, if the guideline calculation is different from the existing order the adjustment will be made. K5. Which of the following criteria for demonstrating a change in circumstances apply, if any?   K5.1. The earnings of the obligor have substantially increased or decreased. Yes K5.2. The earnings of the obligee have substantially increased or decreased. Yes K5.3. The needs of a party or the child(ren) have substantially increased or decreased. No K5.4. The cost of living as measured by the Federal Bureau of Vital Statistics has changed. No K5.5. The child(ren) have extraordinary medical expenses not covered by insurance. Yes K5.6. There has been a substantial change in child care expenses. Yes K5.7. What other criteria does your state use for demonstrating a change in circumstances or comments regarding change of circumstances?   K6. Does your State have cost of living adjustments (COLAs)? No K6.1. If so, what index does your State use?   K7. How does your state credit SSA disability to current and past due support?   K8. Does your state abate support? For example, when the child is not living with the custodial parent for more than 30 days and there has not been a change in custody, or when the noncustodial parent is in prison, etc.   K8.1. If so, please explain the situation?   K8.2. What is the statutory cite for your abatement law?   K8.3. What documents are required for each type of referral other than UIFSA referrals? For example, pay records and certifications for TANF, etc.   K8.4. Please provide information to obtain copies of paternity acknowledgements/affidavits and birth records, including where to make requests and the cost of processing the requests.   K9. What information is required to register an out-of-state order for enforcement/modification?   L. Lump Sum Payments L1. Does your state define a lump sum payment? No L1.1 If yes, please provide your state's definition. (Be specific, i.e., severance pay, incentives, relocation lump sum payments, ect)?   L1.2 Provide the statutory citation.   L2. Does your state law require employers to report lump sum payments? Yes L2.1 If yes, please provide the statutory citation or rule requiring employers to report this information. 14-14-111.5,(4)(k.5) Colorado Revised Statutes. L3. Are employers required to report lump sums for all income withholding orders (including cases with no arrears)? Yes L3.1 If yes, what is the threshold amount at which a lump sum payment must be reported? none L4. How are employers instructed to report a pending lump sum? Contact county worker that issued the order/notice to withhold income for support or the state office if the county is unknown. L5. Provide the timeframe within which the child support enforcement agency must respond to the employer with instructions for attaching the lump sum. Two business days L6. How long must the employer hold the lump sum before releasing the payment to the custodial parent? One week after contacting the county/state office. L7. Does your state use the income withholding order to attach the lump sum payment? Yes L7.1 If yes, is it noted on the original order or is it sent specifically to cover the lump sum? No, it is included in the order/notice to withhold income for support. L8. Does your state use the lien/levy process to attach the lump sum payment? No L8.1 If yes, what is the name of the document your state uses to attach lump sum payment?   L9. What other documents does your state use to attach lump sum payments? Garnishment or Worker's Compensation Lien and Levy. L10. Does your state require the consumer Credit Protection Act (CCPA) limits to be applied to lump sum payments? Yes L10.1 If yes, what are those limits? 50-65% of disposable income according to 13-54-104 Colorado Revised Statutes. L10.2 If no, what percentage is the employer required to withhold?   L11 If an employer pays the lump sum in addition to regular wages, in a single payment, would the CCPA limits apply? Yes L11.1 If yes, would the employer only withhold for that period's obligation? Yes.

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