HB21-1031 Summary

• Reverses a January 2020 Colorado Supreme Court ruling that prohibited district courts from modifying parenting time, decision-making, child support, or maintenance orders while appeals are pending.

• Grants trial courts continuing jurisdiction to modify maintenance and child support orders during appeal based on substantial and continuing changed circumstances.

• Allows trial courts to modify parenting time and decision-making responsibility orders during appeal to serve the best interests of the child.

• Permits courts to exercise temporary emergency jurisdiction to protect children during pendency of child-custody appeals.

• Applies retroactively to any request to modify an order appealed on, after, or before the effective date of the act.