General Scope of LLP Authority
Colorado Rule of Civil Procedure 207.1 provides that a licensed paraprofessional is an individual licensed by the Supreme Court pursuant to this rule to perform certain limited legal services. LLPs do not have a general license to practice law in Colorado and can only represent you within the scope of matters permitted under this Rule.
An LLP’s scope of licensure is as follows:
Notice of LLP’s Scope of Practice. The LLP is licensed by the Colorado Supreme Court to perform certain types of legal services only under the conditions set forth by the Court. LLPs do not include individuals with a general license to practice law in Colorado.
- The LLP’s scope of licensure is limited:
- LLPs may represent the Client to perform certain tasks and services in a legal separation, declaration of invalidity of marriage, or dissolution of a marriage or civil union, whether pre- or post-decree.
- LLPs may represent the Client to perform certain tasks and services in an initial allocation or modification of parental responsibilities or parentage cases, including representing parties in a parentage matter that initially had disputes in which more than two parents or alleged parents asserted or denied legal parentage once parentage has been determined by the court.
- LLPs may represent the Client to perform certain tasks and services in a matter involving the establishment or modification of child support and/or maintenance.
- LLPs may represent the Client to perform certain 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 Client.
The LLP is not authorized to represent Client in resolving certain discrete issues:
- The registration of foreign orders.
- Motions for or orders regarding punitive contempt citations under C.R.C.P. 107.
- Allegation of common law marriage in which either party disputes the existence of a common law marriage or the date when the common law marriage formed.
- Disputed parentage where there are more than two parents or alleged parents asserting or denying legal parentage.
- A non-parent’s request for decision-making authority or parenting time is contested by at least one parent, and the court has determined that ICWA applies to the proceeding.
- Preparation of or litigation regarding pre- or post-nuptial agreements.
- A dispute about the value or income associated with a trust in which a party is a beneficiary.
- Disputes as to the jurisdiction of the court.
- Preparation by LLP of documents, other than the underlying property division, needed to effectuate the sale or distribution of assets of a business entity or commercial property.
- Issues collateral to, but directly affecting, a matter which falls within LLP's scope of practice when such issues require analysis and advice outside that scope of practice, such as immigration, criminal, and bankruptcy issues, or preparation of a qualified domestic relations order (“QDRO”) or other similar document implementing the division of retirement assets, that could directly affect the resolution of the matter.
(Rule C.R.C.P. 207.1 (2025(20) – effective December 1, 2025)