he argues, the temporary order would have abated and he would have had no continuing obligation to make the unallocated payments required by that order. In Colorado, as in most jurisdictions, it is true that, upon the death of a party during the pendency of a divorce action and before a final decree of dissolution is entered, “ ‘the general rule of laW is that a divorce action immediately abates.’ ” In re Marriage of Connell, 870 P.2d 632, 633 (Colo.Ct.App.1994) (emphasis added) (quoting Estate of McLaughlin v. Craig, 117 Colo. 67, 184 P.2d 130, 132 (Colo.1947)). However, Colorado law provides that “provisions for the support of a child are [not] terminated ... by the death of a parent obligated to support the child.” Colo.Rev.Stat. § 14-10-122(3); see also Abrams, 781 P.2d at 656-57 (<HOLDING>). It is not clear under Colorado law which rule
holding the foster parents responsible for support where the childs natural parents are unknown and noting that an earlier new york case held that an agreement to adopt did not terminate the natural parents duty of support but that in that earlier case the natural parent was alive and capable of providing for the child holding that parents may not voluntarily terminate their rights in a child to avoid child support payments or contract away a child support obligation holding that custodial parents death does not terminate noncustodial parents child support obligations set forth in dissolution decree holding that the trial court had not erred in including the cost of health insurance covering both the custodial parent and the parties child in determining the noncustodial parents childsupport obligation recognizing that at common law a parents liability to support his child terminated at the parents death the terms of the support order could not be enforced against his estate unless provisions allowing for such enforcement were included in the order