Uniform Community Property Disposition Death Act

Broader inheritance rules for Colorado property owners

The law expands community-property rules at death to cover all or a qualifying share of Colorado real estate. The property must be traceable to community property or bought with it. Its status depends on the law where either spouse had their legal home when it was acquired or later became community property. The person who died need not have had their legal home in Colorado at death. Related income, rent, profits, gains in value, and other increases are also covered. Existing coverage continues for qualifying personal property traced to community property when the person died with their legal home in Colorado. The law starts at 12:01 a.m. on the day after the 90th day following the legislature's final adjournment. An adjournment on May 13, 2026, makes that date August 12, 2026. A referendum petition filed within that period delays the challenged law or part until voters approve it in November 2026. It then takes effect when the governor officially declares the vote.