Divorce, the kids and the house: what parents ask, answered

Only if one income carries it with room to spare, and the parenting plan keeps both parents close anyway. A house one parent cannot afford is a second loss for the kids two years later. The honest test, with the Denver numbers.

Yes, with a deferred sale written into the decree: who pays what, the trigger date, the sale terms, what happens on a missed payment. Both names usually stay on the loan. How a deferred sale is written.

The kids stay in the house and the parents rotate in and out, usually with a small shared apartment. It works as a bridge of six to twelve months while the house is decided; it rarely works for years. Nesting in Colorado.

Colorado does not set a distance. Practically: inside the drive time your parenting plan assumes, and inside the same school attendance area if that is the plan. Courts weigh how well a schedule actually works. Finding the second home.

No Colorado law requires it. Evaluators and judges do look at whether each home can realistically hold the schedule, and a bed of their own is the thing kids mention first. A shared room with a real bed beats a couch.

Received: only with the decree, a receipt history and three years left to run. Paid: it counts against you from the day it is ordered. The 2026 formula and the mortgage.

Not during the case without consent or an order. After the decree, a relocation that changes the parenting plan goes through the court (C.R.S. 14-10-129). Talk to your attorney before you sign a lease anywhere.

Together if you can, once the decision is made, with the plan for both homes ready to describe. Telling them, moving day, the new neighborhood.