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You will want to check with your local courthouse to make sure, but most courthouses will take Cash, Check, Credit Card, Debit Card or Money Order as acceptable forms of payment. Proof of ID will be required.

Yes, complete JDF 205 Motion to File without Payment and Supporting Financial Affidavit and JDF 206 Finding and Order Concerning Payment of Fees and file them with the court at the same time you file your case. The court may request copies of your last three months bank statements and pay stubs. The court may; waive the filing fees, set up a payment plan, or require you pay the filing fees in full. 

Filing fees are not refundable except by order of the court.

Depending on your case, there may be. If you have to have a party served after your filing, you may to pay the server a fee for service to the other party. 

If your case has already been filed and finalized, and you are not coming back to the court to request a motion for modification of a court order, there may be a fee for that.

The fee for service is determined by your process server so it can vary, there is no set fee.

The filing fees are determined by statute. 13-32-104(1)(a) C.R.S

An adoption is the legal process where birth parents’ rights are terminated and permanently awarded to adoptive parents. When a child is adopted, the adopting parents assume all the rights and responsibilities for the child. A birth parent cannot reappear one day and try to reclaim parental rights of the child.

• When a child is adopted, this ends all of the birth parents' rights and responsibilities. A birth parent cannot just reappear one day and try to reclaim the child. 

• Guardianship does not sever the rights and responsibilities of the birth parents, but means that a caregiver is responsible for the care and custody of the child. 

• Legal custody is different than guardianship in that it may be easier to receive government services from the state if you are a guardian rather than a legal custodian.

Any person over the age of 21 can adopt a child and persons under the age of 21 who get special permission from the court. If married, spouses must file jointly for adoption. If you are single, you can adopt on your own.

A child can be adopted by a step-parent if the custodial parent agrees and the non-custodial parent has either: 

• Abandoned the child for a year or more, 
• Failed to provide reasonable support for the child, such as failing to pay child support, or 
• Consents to the adoption. C.R.S. § 19-5-203(d)(I) and (II).

Yes, if you are a grandparent, brother, sister, one-half sibling, aunt, uncle or first cousin of the child to be adopted and the child has lived with you for one year or more. Such a relative will want to petition the court for a “Kinship Adoption.” C.R.S. § 19-5-203(j).