Week of May 20-26, 2025

In local courts, the Colorado Court of Appeals found in an allocation of parental responsibilities case that the district court erred when it granted a motion by a maternal grandmother to get majority parenting time and sole decision-making authority over the child’s father after the child’s mother died before the APR order could be issued. Nationally, an equally divided U.S. Supreme Court left a ruling in place rejecting a bid from an Oklahoma virtual charter school to be the country’s first state-funded religious charter school.