What the court’s own documents say
- JDF 1406 is one form covering both requests, selected by a checkbox at the top: Change or Restrict.
- “Motion and Affidavit to ☐ Change ☐ Restrict Parenting Time”
- — Colorado Judicial Branch — JDF 1406, Motion and Affidavit to Change/Restrict Parenting Time (rev. April 11, 2023)
- A change request is decided on the best interest of the child; a restriction request asserts imminent or immediate danger.
- “I believe the parenting time changes are in the best interest of the child(ren).”
- — Colorado Judicial Branch — JDF 1406, Motion and Affidavit to Change/Restrict Parenting Time (rev. April 11, 2023)
- The response clocks differ: 21 days for a change, versus on-or-before an emergency hearing held within 14 days for a restriction.
- “For a Motion to Change Parenting Time, you have 21 days to file a written response.”
- — Colorado Judicial Branch — JDF 1406, Motion and Affidavit to Change/Restrict Parenting Time (rev. April 11, 2023)
Read the top of page one
Before anything else, look at which box is checked. Everything downstream — how long you have, what the judge is deciding, how fast a hearing arrives — follows from that single mark.
Why people get this wrong
Generic advice online treats “modify custody” as one thing. In Colorado these are two tracks on one piece of paper, and preparing for the wrong one wastes the only time you have.
If you have a hearing coming up
The free walkthrough of a hearing day — what happens box by box, and the exact words that get a document into evidence — is on this site and asks nothing of you.
Related
Sources
- Colorado Judicial Branch — JDF 1406, Motion and Affidavit to Change/Restrict Parenting Time (rev. April 11, 2023) — loaded and read 2026-08-04
General information about Colorado court procedure, not legal advice, and not about your specific case. Court rules and forms change — open the linked source and confirm it still says this before you rely on it. For advice about your situation, talk to a licensed Colorado family-law attorney. CourtDocs is not a law firm and no attorney-client relationship is created by reading this page.