Question: Is there an exception to the age of consent in Colorado?

Colorado also provides exemptions for specified age differences between partners and for marriage. Age of sexual consent. The Colorado age of sexual consent is 17 years old. Colorado law does not criminalize consensual sex when both parties are 17 years old or older.

Is Colorado changing the age of consent?

In addition to the law related to those 14 and under, the law made it a crime to have sex with a person who is a 15- or 16-year-old if the actor is at least 10 years older, regardless of consent. Therefore, the age of consent in Colorado is 17. UNDER THE NEW LAW, is 17 if the other party is less than 10 years older.

In the State of Colorado this age is 19. If the child receives permission from the court to be emancipated then the parents or the guardians are not responsible for the child. That means they are not obligated to provide money, medical insurance or any other kind of support.

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