Your state’s pack. New issues arrive periodically on Mondays. Bookmark it. I built this for the Colorado T&E solo who knows the Colorado Probate Code (C.R.S. Title 15, UPC-based) cold but still loses an afternoon a week hunting the current homestead number, the Health First Colorado (LTSS) posture, whether the latest Colorado Supreme Court / CBA Formal Ethics Opinion opinion changes how you scope an engagement, or whether a recent Colorado Court of Appeals decision just moved the law on capacity, undue influence, or a trustee’s duties. What’s below is what mattered in Colorado lately — the week’s developments and the recent rulings from the bench.
For licensed attorneys. This pack is general legal information and professional commentary for practicing attorneys — it is not legal advice, does not apply to any specific matter, and creates no attorney-client relationship. Verify every authority against the cited primary source before relying on it with a client. Published by Mike Moss, a Utah-admitted attorney, as an AI-enablement information product; it is not an offer of legal services and is not a representation that the author is admitted to practice in your jurisdiction.
Three developments from the last seven days that I think actually matter to a Colorado T&E solo. Each one has a read that lands on your practice specifically — and each one comes with the citation so you can verify the detail yourself before you use it with a client.
Per the Colorado Judicial Branch RPC Standing Committee, the Colorado Supreme Court adopted AI-specific amendments to the Rules of Professional Conduct effective January 8, 2026 — a new Scope [20A] plus amended comments to Rule 1.1 — making Colorado the first state to embed AI guidance directly in its RPC. The amendments build on the Colorado Bar Association’s Formal Ethics Opinion 145, which addresses AI under competence, confidentiality, fees, and supervision.
If you use AI-assisted drafting or research, Colorado now gives you an in-state, binding frame rather than borrowed ABA guidance — so square your practice to it directly: verify AI output against the primary source under the Rule 1.1 competence comments, protect client confidences in tool inputs, and keep fees honest. This is the controlling authority for any AI work you do for a Colorado client; don’t default to out-of-state opinions when your own court has spoken.
Colorado Judicial Branch · RPC Standing Committee (amendments eff. Jan. 8, 2026) · coloradojudicial.gov · CBA Formal Op. 145
Per HCPF, Community First Choice — a 1915(k) Medicaid state-plan option for attendant services — launched statewide effective July 1, 2025. It expands the home- and community-based attendant-services available under Health First Colorado’s Long-Term Services and Supports, sitting alongside the existing HCBS waivers.
For a Colorado solo running a Medicaid plan, this is a new home- and community-based path to weigh against nursing-facility placement and the established HCBS waivers. When a client wants to stay at home, Community First Choice may change the eligibility and service calculus — so re-screen the setting question rather than assuming the waiver menu is unchanged from last year.
Colorado HCPF · Community First Choice (1915(k), eff. July 1, 2025) · hcpf.colorado.gov/community-first-choice-option
Per the Colorado General Assembly, SB 26-189 was signed into law (Became Law — Signed Act) on May 14, 2026. It repeals and reenacts the Colorado AI Act (originally SB24-205): from January 1, 2027, developers of automated decision-making technology must give deployers technical documentation, and deployers owe consumers point-of-interaction notice plus, within 30 days of an adverse consequential decision, a plain-language description, with rights to human review and data correction; it is AG-enforced under the Colorado Consumer Protection Act.
If your firm or a client deploys AI in a way that produces ‘consequential decisions,’ the January 1, 2027 clock is now running — the documentation, notice, and human-review obligations are not optional and are AG-enforceable. For a T&E solo, the near-term action is to flag any client business that uses automated decision-making (lending, housing, employment) so the compliance build starts well before the 2027 trigger.
Colorado General Assembly · SB 26-189 (Became Law — Signed Act May 14, 2026) · leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb26-189
Decisions that bind a Colorado practitioner — Colorado’s appellate courts and the federal courts covering Colorado, including the U.S. Tenth Circuit — read for what actually changes how you draft, advise, and plan. Trusts and estates broadly, not Medicaid alone: wills and capacity, undue influence, fiduciary duty, trust construction, and estate recovery. One read, the holding, and the official cite.
This lane reads each new opinion from Colorado’s appellate courts and the federal courts covering Colorado (Tenth Circuit) before anything lands here, and reads-and-discards matters that aren’t trusts-and-estates — criminal, family, commercial/LLC fiduciary, tax, and cases where an estate or trust is only a party. For this period’s trailing window, no new verified trusts-and-estates or estate-recovery decision from those courts was identified in the sources reviewed.
Nothing to re-paper from the bench this period; controlling authority is unchanged. When the next verified T&E ruling issues, it lands here with the holding and the official cite.
Controlling authority unchanged · Colorado appellate courts · U.S. Tenth Circuit.
This week in Colorado for the T&E solo with Health First Colorado clients: the developments from the Colorado Bar Association (Trust & Estate Section), the Colorado Supreme Court, and HCPF that actually moved your practice this period — each one primary-source verified.
Bar and Medicaid changes land on different schedules and aren’t indexed by practice focus. Every item here was checked against its primary source, with the link, so you can verify before relying on it.