2020 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 14 - Domestic Matters
Article 10. Uniform Dissolution of Marriage Act
Section 14-10-102. Purposes - rules of construction.
(1) This article 10 must be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes.
(2) The underlying purposes of this article 10 are:
To promote the amicable settlement of disputes that have arisen between parties to amarriage;
To mitigate the potential harm to the spouses and their children caused by the process of legal dissolution of marriage;
To make the law of legal dissolution of marriage more effective for dealing with therealities of matrimonial experience by making an irretrievable breakdown of the marriage relationship the sole basis for its dissolution; and
To provide safeguards for a parent with a disability, pursuant to the provisions ofsection 24-34-805.
Source: L. 71: R&RE, p. 520, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 46-1-2. L. 2018: Entire section amended, (HB 18-1104), ch. 164, p. 1133, § 2, effective April 25.
