What the court’s own documents say
- If a motion to restrict is granted, a hearing is held within 14 days of the filing of the motion.
- “A hearing will be held within 14 days from the filing of this motion, if granted by the court. §14-10-129(4), C.R.S”
- — Colorado Judicial Branch — JDF 1406, Motion and Affidavit to Change/Restrict Parenting Time (rev. April 11, 2023)
- On the restrict track, the written response may be filed on or before the emergency hearing — not on the 21-day schedule.
- “For a Motion to Restrict Parenting Time, your written response can be filed on or before the emergency hearing.”
- — Colorado Judicial Branch — JDF 1406, Motion and Affidavit to Change/Restrict Parenting Time (rev. April 11, 2023)
- The moving parent must assert imminent or immediate danger to the child from the parenting-time contact, and may ask for supervised parenting time until the hearing.
- “I ask the court to restrict the other party’s parenting time because I believe the children are in imminent/immediate danger because of the parenting time contact.”
- — Colorado Judicial Branch — JDF 1406, Motion and Affidavit to Change/Restrict Parenting Time (rev. April 11, 2023)
Why this one moves so fast
A restriction request asserts the child is in immediate danger, so the system treats it as an emergency. The speed is not a sign the court has decided anything — it is the court making room to look at a serious allegation quickly. Supervised parenting time may be ordered in the interim.
The bar is high, and it is specific
The form's own language is imminent or immediate danger from the parenting-time contact. That is a narrower claim than “I disagree with his parenting.” What the court is deciding is that specific question, and a response is strongest when it answers that question with documents rather than answering everything else.
Fourteen days is not long
Records take time to request. If there are police, medical, school, or agency records that speak to the allegation, start requesting them the day you are served, not the week of the hearing.
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
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