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In Colorado, prospective adoptive parents in kinship or custodial adoption cases are required to participate in a family assessment or home study. A social worker from a licensed placement agency will conduct the home study and provide a detailed written report to the court. The purpose of the home study is for the caseworker to visit your home, interview you and educate, prepare and evaluate the adoptive family. 

In kinship and custodial adoption cases, the potential adoptive parents can ask the court to waive the assessment by completing and filing the Motion to Waive the Family Assessment/Home Study (JDF 515) and the Order (JDF 516). C.R.S. § 19-5-206(g).

Yes, the courts must provide auxiliary aids to courtroom spectators as needed to ensure their equal participation in and benefit from court programs and services. Access to these services must be provided unless the court can demonstrate that the accommodation would result in a fundamental alteration of the nature of a service, program, or activity or cause undue financial or administrative burden. For example, an untimely request for accommodation by a spectator may not be made if it would require a continuation of the court proceedings, causing an undue administrative burden of rescheduling the parties, attorneys and witnesses.

There are three types of fees:

1. (Court) Statutory Filing Fees: Filings fees for specific filings. These are the same filing fees that are charged at the clerk’s office. These fees are not charged until the filing is accepted by the court. They can be waived if the courts grants a fee waiver. Currently, you can't E-File if you have received a fee waiver. 

2. (CCE) E-Filing Fees: The $12 fee charged per filing. You can file as many documents as you need in one filing. This fee is not charged until the filing is accepted by the court.

3. (*CCE & USPS) Service Fees: These are the fees charged when a party requests the E-Filing system to provide Service. Service occurs when the party submits the filing. These fees are non-refundable. If the other party has a CCE account, they are automatically Served, and a $12 fee is charged. That information is included in the terms and conditions when the E-Filing account is created. If USPS Service is requested, the fees are based on the number of pages.

CCE (Colorado Courts E-Filing): There is a $12 fee to serve the other party if they have a CCE account.

USPS (United States Postal Service, a.k.a. US Mail): Review the E-Filing Pricing Model.

County Court: Civil suits asking for money damages, FED case types filed pursuant to §13-40-101 et. seq., foreign judgments, name changes, replevins, misdemeanors, and minor traffic infractions. 

District Court: General jurisdiction civil, domestic relations, probate, and water cases. Criminal and juvenile delinquency cases.

Court of Appeals: All case classes and types.

Supreme Court: All case classes and types. 

Denver County Court cases are not available in the Colorado Court's E-Filing system. Organizations should continue to file and serve in Denver County Court through File & Serve Xpress. Denver District and Probate Court cases can be submitted through the Colorado Court's E-Filing system.