2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 14 - Domestic Matters
Dissolution of Marriage - Parental Responsibilities
Article 10 - Uniform Dissolution of Marriage Act
§ 14-10-102. Purposes - rules of construction

(1) This article shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes.

(2) Its underlying purposes are:

(a) To promote the amicable settlement of disputes that have arisen between parties to a marriage;

(b) To mitigate the potential harm to the spouses and their children caused by the process of legal dissolution of marriage; and

(c) To make the law of legal dissolution of marriage more effective for dealing with the realities of matrimonial experience by making an irretrievable breakdown of the marriage relationship the sole basis for its dissolution.