the original order is the Colorado divorce decree, legal separation or declaration of invalidity of marriage with an order for current support. The original order may also be the earliest active Colorado juvenile support order or the earliest active Colorado Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act/Uniform Interstate Family Support Act order.

The order and organization in which records were created and/or stored by the creator or office of origin.

The order in which records and archives were kept when in active use, ie the order of accumulation as they were created, maintained and used. This principle requires that the original order be preserved or reconstructed unless, after examination, the original order is identified as a totally haphazard accumulation making records irretrievable (but not an odd, unorderly or difficult arrangement). See also Provenance. Source: Adapted from Ellis, p. 475.