Six theaters — and the water courts come first.

District courts — general jurisdiction (the constitutional trial floor)

"The district courts shall be trial courts of record with general jurisdiction, and shall have original jurisdiction in all civil, probate, and criminal cases, except as otherwise provided herein"

Colo. Const. art. VI, § 9(1)

• Twenty-three districts composed county-by-county by C.R.S. 13-5-102 through 13-5-123.1 — the statutory registry carries every composition verbatim.
• The 23rd district (Douglas, Elbert, Lincoln) began operating January 7, 2025; the 18th is now Arapahoe alone.

County courts — the $25,000 civil line

"does not exceed twenty-five thousand dollars"

C.R.S. § 13-6-104(1)

"On and after January 1, 2019" C.R.S. § 13-6-104(1)the line's own effective date — the statute states it

• Attorney-issued county-court process rides the order-carried C.R.C.P. 303.1 advance clock (7 days before the return date — the CO-5 registry computes it).

Small claims — the $7,500 room with its own representation statute

"does not exceed seven thousand five hundred"

C.R.S. § 13-6-403

"Any natural person, corporation, partnership, association, or other organization may commence or defend an action in the small claims court" C.R.S. § 13-6-407(1)parties — and the section's own bar on assignees who are not real parties

• 13-6-407(2) governs who may represent whom in the small-claims room — read the section whole on its own page; this platform routes, it does not appear for anyone.

Denver's constitutional specials — probate, juvenile, and the charter county court

"Pursuant to the provisions of section 1 of article VI of the Colorado constitution, there is hereby established the probate court of the city and county of Denver"

C.R.S. § 13-9-101

"Pursuant to the provisions of section 1 of article VI of the Colorado constitution, there is hereby established the juvenile court of the city and county of Denver" C.R.S. § 13-8-101

"shall be as provided in the charter and ordinances of the City and County of Denver" Colo. Const. art. VI, § 26Denver County Court's judges ride the city charter — the one county court outside the state system's judge provisions

• Denver (the 2nd district) is the one Colorado county with four distinct courts — the registry names all four with their sources.

Forcible entry and detainer — statutory jurisdiction and notice structure

"The district courts in their respective districts and county courts in their respective counties have jurisdiction of all cases of forcible entry, forcible detainer, or unlawful detainer arising pursuant to this article 40"

C.R.S. § 13-40-109

"may terminate a periodic tenancy at the end of the tenancy period" C.R.S. § 13-40-107(1)the notice statute — its subsection (2) sets the written-notice lengths by tenancy duration; read whole on its own page

• 13-40-107's own text routes residential premises through 38-12-1302 — the modern residential structure lives in loaded Title 38; the lane's day-by-day mechanics are read from the sections themselves, never paraphrased into parameters here.