What If Your Ex Won’t Provide Financial Disclosure in Colorado?

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Last Updated: May 2026

You filed your child support modification. You completed your own JDF 1111 Sworn Financial Statement — all 12 pages, signed under oath, probably notarized at the UPS Store for $15. You sent the other parent their copy. And now you’re waiting for theirs. It doesn’t come.

Both Parents Are Required to Disclose — No Exceptions

Under C.R.C.P. 16.2(e), both parties in a Colorado domestic relations case have a mandatory duty to disclose financial information. The deadline is 42 days after the responding party is served. Say you earn $7,667/month as a healthcare administrator in Boulder County, 20th Judicial District.

The JDF 1104 Gap Nobody Warns You About

JDF 1104 is the Certificate of Compliance with Mandatory Financial Disclosures. Here’s the problem: JDF 1104 has no checkbox, section, or language for documenting that the other party failed to provide theirs. You can certify your own compliance, but the form gives you no way to flag the other side’s non-compliance.

How to Compel Disclosure Through the Court

The formal mechanism is the Motion to Compel Under C.R.C.P. 16.2, which is JDF 1105. It’s a two-page form available on coloradojudicial.gov. Before you file, you must certify you’ve provided your own disclosure and that you’ve tried to get the information without court action.

Once you file JDF 1105, the court can issue JDF 1112 — an Order Re: Motion to Compel. The filing fee for the modification itself is $105.

What If You Don’t Have Their Income at All?

Colorado allows parties to estimate the other parent’s income based on available information — prior tax returns, publicly available salary data, income from the original decree.

How Representation Affects the Process

If the other parent is represented, the disclosure process runs through their attorney. When the other parent doesn’t have an attorney, the disclosure obligation is identical under C.R.C.P. 16.2(e). Some counties have Sherlock coordinators at coloradojudicial.gov.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can the court just use my income and skip the other parent’s? No. The child support calculation under C.R.S. § 14-10-115 requires both parents’ incomes.

Does non-disclosure delay my modification? It can. But non-disclosure doesn’t stop you from filing or moving forward.

The Colorado Judicial Branch maintains all self-help forms, including JDF 1105 and JDF 1111, at coloradojudicial.gov/self-help/change-court-orders.