Colorado Code § 15-11-115

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In this subpart 2:
(1) "Adoptee" means an individual who is adopted.
(2) "Assisted reproduction" means a method of causing pregnancy other than sexual
intercourse.
(3) "Divorce" includes an annulment, dissolution of marriage, and declaration of
invalidity of a marriage.
(4) "Functioned as a parent of the child" means behaving toward a child in a manner
consistent with being the child's parent and performing functions that are customarily performed
by a parent, including fulfilling parental responsibilities toward the child, recognizing or holding
out the child as the individual's child, materially participating in the child's upbringing, and
residing with the child in the same household as a regular member of that household.
(5) "Genetic father" means the man whose sperm fertilized the egg of a child's genetic
mother. If the father-child relationship is established under the presumption of paternity under
section 19-4-105, C.R.S., the term means only the man for whom that relationship is established.
(6) "Genetic mother" means the woman whose egg was fertilized by the sperm of a
child's genetic father.
(7) "Genetic parent" means a child's genetic father or genetic mother.
(8) "Incapacity" means the inability of an individual to function as a parent of a child
because of the individual's physical or mental condition.
(9) "Relative" means a grandparent or a descendant of a grandparent.

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