General Scope of LLP Authority
Colorado Rule of Civil Procedure 207.1 provides that a licensed legal paraprofessional is an individual licensed by the Supreme Court pursuant to this rule to perform certain limited legal services. LLPs in Colorado do not have a general license to practice law and can only represent clients within the specific scope of matters permitted under this rule.
The scope of licensure for LLPs is as follows:
Notice of LLP’s Scope of Practice. The LLP is licensed by the Colorado Supreme Court to provide certain types of legal services only under the conditions set forth by the Court. LLPs in Colorado do not include individuals with a general license to practice law.
The LLP’s scope of licensure is limited:
- LLPs may represent clients in providing certain tasks and services related to legal separation, declaration of invalidity of marriage, or the dissolution of a marriage or civil union, whether pre- or post-decree.
- LLPs may represent clients in an initial allocation or modification of parental responsibilities or parentage cases, including representing parties in parentage matters with disputes where more than two parents or alleged parents assert or deny legal parentage once the court has determined parentage.
- LLPs may represent clients in establishing or modifying child support and/or maintenance obligations.
- LLPs may assist clients with tasks and services related to protection orders, name changes, and adult gender designation changes.
- LLPs may file and respond to motions for remedial contempt citations under C.R.C.P. 107 for clients.
However, the LLP is not authorized to represent clients in resolving certain discrete issues:
- Registration of foreign orders.
- Motions for or orders regarding punitive contempt citations under C.R.C.P. 107.
- Allegations of common law marriage where either party disputes the existence or the formation date of such marriage.
- Disputed parentage cases with more than two parents or alleged parents asserting or denying legal parentage.
- Requests from non-parents for decision-making authority or parenting time contested by at least one parent, where the court has determined that the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) applies.
- Preparation or litigation regarding pre- or post-nuptial agreements.
- Disputes about the value or income associated with a trust in which a party is a beneficiary.
- Jurisdictional disputes within the court.
- Preparation by LLP of documents required to effectuate the sale or distribution of assets pertaining to a business entity or commercial property, excluding the underlying property division.
- Issues that are collateral but directly affect a matter within the LLP's scope of practice, such as immigration, criminal, and bankruptcy issues, or preparation of a qualified domestic relations order (QDRO) or similar documents that implement the division of retirement assets, which could directly impact the resolution of the matter.
(Rule C.R.C.P. 207.1 (2025(20) – effective December 1, 2025)
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