Central Park & Lowry Divorce & Custody Attorney

What a Central Park or Lowry divorce is usually about.

Central Park was Stapleton until 2020 and Lowry was an Air Force base until 1994, and both were built in a single generation, which gives their divorces a shape: a house bought between 2008 and 2018 that is worth twice what was paid, two careers, restricted stock or options from one employer, a 529 plan for each child, and almost no inherited money to trace. Colorado divides marital property equitably, and the increase in a home’s value or a retirement account’s balance during the marriage is marital even when the asset was opened before the wedding, so the Central Park file is less about where the money came from than about dividing what both spouses built without a tax mistake. Retirement money is divided with a qualified domestic relations order, drafted correctly, or the tax bill lands on the wrong spouse; unvested compensation is divided by a formula that depends on when it was granted and why. I have written about both on Executive Compensation and QDROs & Retirement Plans.

The income side is medicine and the downtown firms. The Anschutz Medical Campus is ten minutes from either neighborhood, so one spouse is often a physician with a group buy-in, a call schedule and student loans that are separate debt; the other is often an attorney, a consultant or an executive paid partly in equity. Colorado treats a professional practice as property with a value and the professional’s earnings as income, and getting that line right is the difference between a fair result and paying twice. Maintenance in these households usually turns on the marital standard of living and the earning capacity of a spouse who stepped back when the children were small, and the house is usually the asset that has to be sold or refinanced to make the division work. More on Professional Practices, Spousal Maintenance and The House & the Buyout.

Denver District Court, downtown.

The Denver City and County Building on Bannock Street — Denver City and County Building: Denver District Court

Central Park and Lowry are in the City and County of Denver, so a case filed here goes to the 2nd Judicial District at the Denver City & County Building on Bannock Street — about twenty minutes down Colfax or Martin Luther King from either neighborhood and twenty-five from my office in Greenwood Village. Domestic relations is heard in Room 256; criminal matters are across the street at Lindsey-Flanigan. Denver runs the busiest family docket in the state, 3,916 domestic cases filed in 2024, with five district judges who rotate through domestic for eighteen to twenty-four months at a time and three magistrates who stay. The court has its own simplified forms, the DEN series, and the initial status conference is set with a facilitator or a judge, in person or by phone. Nothing is accepted by fax or email, and the C.R.C.P. 16.2 financial disclosures — for a Central Park household, the grant agreements, the 529 statements and the mortgage file — are due 42 days after service. In my experience the volume means a contested permanent-orders hearing is set well out, which is one more reason to settle what can be settled early; and there is no family waiting area, so do not bring the children. The detail, and every other metro courthouse, is on the Denver Metro Family Courts page.

City and County of Denver · 2nd Judicial District

Denver City & County Building

1437 Bannock Street, Denver, CO 80202 · Clerk’s Office, Room 256
(303) 606-2300
Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.

The bench. Five district judges rotate through the domestic docket for eighteen to twenty-four months at a time; three magistrates stay with it. Domestic relations is in Room 256 of the City & County Building; 3,916 domestic cases were filed in 2024, the most in Colorado.

Parking. No courthouse lot. Meters and paid garages ring Civic Center; the nearest public garage is the Denver Justice Center garage at 490 West 14th Avenue. Budget twenty minutes to park and clear security.

Help at the courthouse. Self-help center in Room 281, closed 11:30 to 12:30. The court has no family waiting area, so do not bring the children.

Directions in Google Maps · Official court page (Colorado Judicial Branch)

Central Park & Lowry at a glance

County: City and County of Denver
Court: Denver City & County Building, downtown (2nd Judicial District)
Schools: Denver Public Schools (Northfield, DSST and the Central Park and Lowry elementaries, by choice enrollment)
To the courthouse: About 20 minutes; no courthouse lot, allow time to park
To my office: About 25 minutes to Greenwood Village; video available

Custody when the school is the neighborhood.

Most Central Park and Lowry parents chose the neighborhood for the schools and the parks, and most custody cases here are about keeping the children in both while two households take shape a few blocks apart. Denver Public Schools runs on choice enrollment, so a parent who moves across Quebec or Alameda has not necessarily changed schools, but the plan has to say which address controls the enrollment and who drives on which mornings, because the plan that is vague about Sunday night is the plan that ends up back in court. Colorado’s best-interests factors include the physical proximity of the parents’ homes and each parent’s past pattern of involvement, and I build parenting plans around both — and around a physician’s call schedule or a parent whose work does not stop at five. When one parent is thinking about moving to the suburbs or out of state, the relocation rules decide the case, and they are strict. More on Parenting-Time Schedules, Custody for Executives & Business Owners and Relocation & Move-Away.

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What a Central Park or Lowry divorce is usually about.

Denver District Court, downtown.

Custody when the school is the neighborhood.

Recent writing.

If you are in Central Park or Lowry, start with a confidential conversation.