Colorado § 14-13-306 - Enforcement of registered determination.

§ 14-13-306. Enforcement of registered determination.

(1) A court of this state may grant any relief normally available under the law of this state to enforce a registered child-custody determination made by a court of another state.

(2) A court of this state shall recognize and enforce, but may not modify, except in accordance with part 2 of this article, a registered child-custody determination of a court of another state.

Source: L. 2000: Entire article R&RE, p. 1533, § 1, effective July 1.

Editor's note: This section is similar to former §§ 14-13-115 and 14-13-116, as they existed prior to 2000.

OFFICIAL COMMENT

A registered child-custody determination can be enforced as if it was a child-custody determination of this State. However, it remains a custody determination of the State that issued it. A registered custody order is not subject to modification unless the State would have jurisdiction to modify the order under Part 2.

ANNOTATION

Law reviews. For article, "The Rights of Children and the Crisis in Custody Litigation: Modification of Custody in and out of State", see 46 U. Colo. L. Rev. 495 (1974-75). For article, "Recovering the Parentally Kidnapped Child", see 12 Colo. Law. 1798 (1983).

Annotator's note. Section 14-13-306 is similar to §§ 14-13-115 and 14-13-116 as they existed prior to the 2000 repeal and reenactment of this article. Relevant cases construing § 14-13-116 have been included in the annotations to this section. Cases construing § 14-13-115 have been included under § 14-13-203.

A certified copy of a foreign decree that is introduced into evidence and considered by the jury must be recognized with respect to its effect on defendant's conduct in this state. People v. Haynie, 826 P.2d 371 (Colo. App. 1991).

District court erred in finding that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction to enforce an out-of-state parenting time order. On registering the out-of-state order, the district court was empowered to enforce the order through any remedy normally available under state law, including those outlined in § 14-10-129.5. In re Parental Responsibilities of W.F-L., 2018 COA 164, 433 P.3d 168.

Applied in In re Bechard, 40 Colo. App. 516, 577 P.2d 778 (1978).