D.  Before Hearing


C.R.S. § 19-4-107
Any interested party may request the court determine paternity. This includes the mother, putative father, child, state, state DHS, or county DHS. If the child has no presumed father, personal representatives of deceased interested parties may also file. An agreement between the putative father and the mother or child does not bar others from bringing the action unless the court approves the agreement.

C.R.S. § 19-4-107.5
The party filing a paternity action must disclose to the court the existence of any prior temporary or permanent restraining orders.

C.R.S. § 19-4-107(b)
Any man presumed to be the father based on marriage (or attempted marriage) may not seek a declaration of nonpaternity after the child is five years old. If he brings it sooner, it may be denied if he did not bring it within a reasonable time after he learned of his nonpaternity.

C.R.S. § 19-4-108
An action in paternity brought by the mother or father must commence before the child’s eighteenth birthday. An action in paternity brought by the child must commence before the child’s twenty-first birthday.

C.R.S. § 19-4-110
C.R.S. § 19-4-111
C.R.S. § 19-4-112

Before the hearing, the court may:
  • Appoint the child a GAL;
  • Issue temporary orders;
  • Order genetic tests to determine paternity.