An LLP is a professional authorized to provide legal services in family law without the supervision of an attorney including offering legal advice, drafting and filing court documents, as well as representing clients in mediations and in court proceedings.

This innovative role expands access to justice by allowing qualified professionals to assist clients with matters such as divorce, child custody, child support, and parenting time. Analogous to a Nurse Practitioner, an LLP can provide legal assistance, advice and guidance to litigants going through the court process.

LLPs provide assistance in family law matters including:

• Legal separation, declaration of invalidity of marriage, dissolution of a marriage, and dissolution of a civil union, whether pre-decree or post-decree

• Initial allocation or a modification of parental responsibilities or parentage cases, including representing parties in a parentage matter that initially had disputes in which more than two parents or alleged parents asserted or denied legal parentage once parentage has been determined by the court

• Establishment or modification of child support and/or maintenance

• Protection orders, name changes, and adult gender designation changes

• Filing and responding to motions for remedial contempt citations

LLPs have a limited license to practice in family law and are not licensed to practice in any other areas of law.

LLPs cannot provide services for the following legal matters:

• Registration of Foreign Orders

• Motions for Orders regarding Punitive Contempt Citations under C.R.C.P. 107

• Allegation of common law marriage in which either party disputes the existence of a common law marriage or the date when the common law marriage formed

• Disputed parentage where there are more than two parents or alleged parents asserting or denying legal parentage

• Non-parent's request for decision-making authority or parenting time is contested by at least one parent and the court has determined that the Indian Child Welfare Act applies to the proceeding, except as otherwise provided by law

• Preparation or litigation of Pre or Post Nuptial Agreements

• Dispute about the value of or income associated with a trust in which a party is a beneficiary

• Dispute about a jurisdictional issue

• Preparation of documents, other than an agreement addressing underlying property division, needed to effectuate the sale or distribution of assets of a business entity or commercial property

• Issues collateral to, but directly affecting, a matter which falls within the LLP's scope of practice when such issues require analysis and advice outside that scope of practice, such as immigration, criminal, and bankruptcy issues or the preparation of a qualified domestic relations order (“QDRO”) or other similar document implementing the division of retirement assets that could directly affect the resolution of the matter