{"data":{"id":"us-co/c.r.s.-13-24-105","jurisdiction":"us-co","citation":"C.R.S. § 13-24-105","heading":"Beginning and concluding collaborative law process.","body":"(1) A collaborative law process begins when the parties sign a collaborative law participation agreement.\n\n(2) A tribunal may not order a party to participate in a collaborative law process over that party's objection.\n\n(3) A collaborative law process is concluded by a:\n\n(a) Resolution of a collaborative matter as evidenced by a signed record;\n\n(b) Resolution of a part of the collaborative matter, evidenced by a signed record, in which the parties agree that the remaining parts of the matter will not be resolved in the process; or\n\n(c) Termination of the process.\n\n(4) A collaborative law process terminates:\n\n(a) When a party gives notice to other parties in a record that the process is ended;\n\n(b) When a party:\n\n(I) Begins a proceeding related to a collaborative matter without the agreement of all parties; or\n\n(II) In a pending proceeding related to the matter:\n\n(A) Initiates a pleading, motion, order to show cause, or request for a conference with the tribunal;\n\n(B) Requests that the proceeding be put on the tribunal's active calendar; or\n\n(C) Takes similar action requiring notice to be sent to the parties; or\n\n(c) Except as otherwise provided by subsection (7) of this section, when a party discharges a collaborative lawyer or a collaborative lawyer withdraws from further representation of a party.\n\n(5) A party's collaborative lawyer shall give prompt notice to all other parties in a record of a discharge or withdrawal.\n\n(6) A party may terminate a collaborative law process with or without cause.\n\n(7) Notwithstanding the discharge or withdrawal of a collaborative lawyer, a collaborative law process continues if, not later than thirty days after the date that the notice of the discharge or withdrawal of a collaborative lawyer required by subsection (5) of this section is sent to the parties:\n\n(a) The unrepresented party engages a successor collaborative lawyer; and\n\n(b) In a signed record:\n\n(I) The parties consent to continue the process by reaffirming the collaborative law participation agreement;\n\n(II) The agreement is amended to identify the successor collaborative lawyer; and\n\n(III) The successor collaborative lawyer confirms the lawyer's representation of a party in the collaborative process.\n\n(8) A collaborative law process does not conclude if, with the consent of the parties, a party requests a tribunal to approve a resolution of the collaborative matter or any part thereof as evidenced by a signed record.\n\n(9) A collaborative law participation agreement may provide additional methods of concluding a collaborative law process.","path":["Title 13 - COURTS AND COURT PROCEDURE","Article 24 - Uniform Collaborative Law Act"],"source_url":"https://olls.info/crs/crs2026-title-13.htm","current_through":"Colorado Revised Statutes 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:37:45Z","sha256":"b0eae0f80b4ccf5fd1e7843adbe23c2806eae0f4e46d177953c25b72e39701c9","source_id":"us-co","stale":false,"prev":"us-co/c.r.s.-13-24-104","next":"us-co/c.r.s.-13-24-106"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}