Kim Willoughby

Practice Areas

Prenups/Marital and Cohabitation Agreements

Estate Planning

Matrimonial Law

Career

Published Appellate Decisions:

- In re Marriage of Crandall and Levy, 22CA1790, (Colo. App. 2024 (not published).

- In re A.C.B., 2022 WL 67869 (Colo. App. 2022).

- In re Marriage of Crouch, 2021COA3 (2021).

- In re Marriage of Rooks, 16SC906, 2018 CO 85 (Colo. App. 2018).

- In re Parental Responsibilities of A.R.L., 318 P.3d 581 (Colo. App. 2013)

- In re Madrone, 290 P.3d 478 (Colo. 2012).

- In re Marriage of Sorenson, 166 P.3d 245 (Colo. App. 2007).

- In re Marriage of DePalma, 176 P3d 829 (Colo. App. 2007).

- In re Marriage of Ciesluk, 113 P.3d 135 (Colo. 2005).

- In re E.L.M.C., 100 P.3d 546 (Colo. App. 2004).

- In re Marriage of Dorworth, 33 P.3d 1260 (Colo. App. 2001).

Professional Memberships

ACTEC - Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

AAML - Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers

ACFTL - Fellow of the American College of Family Trial Lawyers

Colorado Bar Association

Publications

- Kim co-authored an article with Wendy S. Goffe and Peter M. Walzer entitled "When Estate Planning and Marital Agreements Collide" - Part I and Part II

- Kim contributed a chapter to the book "How to Be a Lawyer: The Path from Law School to Success," written by Jason Mendelson and Alex Paul.

- "Realizing the Value of Hard to Value Assets," American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Journal, Fall, 2021

- Contributing Author, "The Double Dip Debate," Business Valuation in Divorce, Fourth Edition, 2019

- "Colorado's New Uniform Premarital and Marital Agreements Act," with Susan L. Boothby, The Colorado Lawyer, March 2014

- "Changes to Colorado's Uniform Probate Code," with Elizabeth Bryant and Constance Beck Wood, The Colorado Lawyer, December 2010

Personal

Kim lives with her husband and two teenagers in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains just outside of Denver. Kim is an ice rink veteran, having raised one hockey player and one competitive figure skater. She loves hiking, camping, skiing, snorkeling, boating, and cows.

Kim is originally from South Dakota, where she still owns the family ranch. She has segued her homes and presence in South Dakota and Grand Cayman into a niche asset protection practice.

Kim's husband owns a local Colorado distillery, making Vanjak Vodka and Camaro's.

Kim is an avid reader and appreciates book recommendations for management, biographies, history, neuropsychology, the aging brain, and novels by Irish authors.

Kim's passion for the law arises from her love of constitutional law, teaching and writing, While she thought she would be a philosophy professor, three generations of lawyers and judges in her family steered her away from that.

Kim loves her area of practice because of the wonderful people she is fortunate enough to work for. Few things in her professional life give her more joy than a well put-together spreadsheet, a pile of tax returns, and a plan to help people in an unfortunate time of life to get to a better place.

Education

Work Highlights

- Kim is one of only two attorneys listed with Chambers and Partners as a Band 1 Family Law Attorney for High Net Worth individuals in Colorado.

- Kim has been selected to the American College of Family Trial Lawyers, a select group of 100 of the top family law trial lawyers from across the United States.

- Kim has been named one of the Top 10 Attorneys in Colorado for 2024 by SuperLawyers.

- Kim has been named one of the Top 100 Attorneys in Colorado for 2012, 2013, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024, and one of the Top 50 Female Attorneys in Colorado for 2006, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 by SuperLawyers (a publication of 5280 Magazine and Law and Politics).

- Kim has been selected to SuperLawyers every year for the last eighteen years (2006 - 2024).

- Kim was named by 5280 Magazine as one of the best attorneys in Denver for 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2024.