Colorado § 14-5-313 Costs and fees

Colorado Statutes

§ 14-5-313 — Costs and fees

Colorado § 14-5-313

Title 14Domestic

Art.Uniform Interstate Family

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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 14-5-313 (2026).

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(a)The petitioner may not be required to pay a filing fee or other costs.

(b)If an obligee prevails, a responding tribunal of this state may assess against an obligor filing fees, reasonable attorney's fees, other costs, and necessary travel and other reasonable expenses incurred by the obligee and the obligee's witnesses. The tribunal may not assess fees, costs, or expenses against the obligee or the support enforcement agency of either the initiating or the responding state or foreign country, except as provided by other law. Attorney's fees may be taxed as costs, and may be ordered paid directly to the attorney, who may enforce the order in the attorney's own name. Payment of support owed to the obligee has priority over fees, costs, and expenses.

(c)The tribunal shall ord

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(a) The petitioner may not be required to pay a
filing fee or other costs.

(b) If an obligee prevails, a responding tribunal of this state may assess
against an obligor filing fees, reasonable attorney's fees, other costs, and
necessary travel and other reasonable expenses incurred by the obligee and the
obligee's witnesses. The tribunal may not assess fees, costs, or expenses against
the obligee or the support enforcement agency of either the initiating or the
responding state or foreign country, except as provided by other law. Attorney's
fees may be taxed as costs, and may be ordered paid directly to the attorney, who
may enforce the order in the attorney's own name. Payment of support owed to the
obligee has priority over fees, costs, and expenses.

(c) The tribunal shall order the payment of costs and reasonable attorney's
fees if it determines that a hearing was requested primarily for delay. In a
proceeding under part 6 of this article, a hearing is presumed to have been
requested primarily for delay if a registered support order is confirmed or enforced
without change.

Legislative History

Source: L. 93: Entire article R&RE, p. 1592, � 1, effective January 1, 1995. L. 2003: (c) amended, p. 1253, � 21, effective July 1, 2004. L. 2015: (b) amended, (HB 15-1198), ch. 173, p. 552, � 22, effective July 1.