Divorce in Colorado - Child Custody - International & Interstate Family Law
Russel Murray III, P.C.
Russel Murray III, Attorney at Law
- Mr. Murray is a past chair of the Family Law Section of the Colorado Bar Association (2001-2002) and is the current chair of the Adams/Broomfield Bar Association Family Law Section (2017-2023). He twice co-chaired the statewide Family Law Institute (2001, 1994) attended by more than 400 lawyers, judges, and family law mental health and accounting experts and experts in all other relevant fields. Mr. Murray teaches lawyers and judges: he has spoken locally and nationally at more than 100 CLEs (Continuing Legal Education courses) on topics of Interstate and International Child Custody, Colorado Divorce Family Law and Domestic Relations, Divorce and Post-Divorce Litigation, Multi-State Jurisdictional Issues, Child Family Investigators (CFI), Special Advocates, Criminal Law in Family Law Issues, Restraining and Protection Orders, Domestic Violence, Trial Tactics, Evidence Issues, Technology In and Out of The Courtroom, Family Law Ethics, and many other topics.
- Russel is a thirty-three year member of the Colorado Bar Association Ethics Committee and created and chaired the CBA Family Law Section Ethics Committee (1993-2003). Additionally, he is a 30 + year member of the American Bar Association (ABA) Family Law Section (Child Custody Committee; International Law Committee; Ethics Committee); the ABA International Law Section (Family Law Committee; International Mediation Committee); the ABA Center For Professional Responsibility; the International Society of Family Law (ISFL); the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers (APRL); the Colorado Criminal Defense Bar (CCDB); and the Adams/Broomfield (Chair, Family Law Section 2017-2025), Arapahoe, and Douglas County Bar Associations.
- For 30 consecutive years he has been listed as an AV lawyer in Martindale-Hubbell an honor reflecting legal knowledge and ability as well as ethical practices and procedures, bestowed upon lawyers by the judges before whom they appear and by their peers against whom they litigate and try cases. He is also listed as an International Family Law attorney in The Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers.
- The family law practice of Russel Murray III, P.C. emphasizes his particular expertise in Interstate and International Child Custody matters and Child Abductions, whether in private cases or in cases involving the Hague Convention and the International Child Abduction Remedies Act (ICARA), Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act (PKPA); Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Enforcement Act (UCCJEA); Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Act (UCAPA); and all types of Colorado Family Law and Domestic Relations Litigation.which includes divorce, child custody (married and unmarried), support (child support and spousal support/maintenance/alimony), division of marital property of all types (homes, land, businesses, finances, vehicles, jewelry, special collections and collectables, firearms, retirement accounts, benefits, technology-related and other intellectual property rights, and many more); grandparent rights; juvenile rights; and appeals at all levels of the state and federal courts.
- Mr. Murray serves as a referral attorney for the U.S. State Department Hague Convention Attorney Network and regularly presents on issues concerning The Hague Convention and related federal and state laws. He authored “Interstate Custody in the New Millennium (American Journal of Family Law, Fall, 1999)” and has chaired or served on committees involving Hague Convention issues and many related international family law issues featuring himself and other expert speakers from the six primary inhabited continents, including judges, attorneys, governmental and political leaders and leading technology proponents to raise awareness of potential interstate and international trial enhancements. Russel maintains a significant interest in the Ethics of Interstate and International Child Custody and Child Abduction cases and in the technology associated with Interstate and International cases.
- Russel Murray was named by Lawyers Weekly USA as one of its Ten Top Lawyers in the United States in 2001 for his seminal work in federal court on a highly-contested Hague Convention abduction case, Murray has also been featured in USA Today, the Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News, KMGH Channel 7 (Denver), and in various specialty publications such as FCW and Civic.com.