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Financial issues are often the cornerstone issue in dissolution of marriage cases. Contests over the division of marital assets and debts, the determination of whether individual assets are part of the marital estate or one spouse's separate property, and disagreements over value and allocation frequently merge to become one of, if not the, primary areas of focus of protracted domestic relations litigation in dissolution cases. The Financial Expert Guide for Family Law Attorneys and Judges, Colorado Edition, focuses exclusively on Colorado law and applications addressing these multifaceted legal and financial issues. Parties in Colorado divorce cases, the attorneys who represent them, and the judicial officers before whom the parties appear all confront substantial challenges when this constellation of financial issues arise. To assist all the parties confronting the many and varied financial challenges domestic relations cases present, the authors prepared this Guide to assist all of them, but especially the attorneys and judicial officers who must present and decide these cases. Our goals were to provide judges, attorneys, and experts a comprehensive summary of the key Colorado valuation cases and legal principles, the fundamentals for understanding and applying those business valuation concepts in family law cases, the essentials of attorney-expert coordination in a valuation case, and the critical techniques and approaches for supporting or attacking a valuation report at hearing or trial. John H. Tatlock, Esq. co-author