Domestic Relations: Child Support-Marital Property-Distribution

Staff Report//May 13, 2019

Where a mother involved in a dissolution challenged the orders for child support and the distribution of marital property, the trial court erred in reducing the child-support obligation because the child-support start date predated the filing of her petition and purported to alter a separate final judgment, but the court did not abuse its discretion in awarding the husband a disproportionate amount of property in the form of his 401(k) account because there was no evidence of the value of the account and given the overall distribution of the rest of the couple’s property and debt.

Judgment is affirmed in part; reversed and remanded in part.

Lollar v. Lollar (MLW No. 73194/Case No. ED106488 – 9 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Hoff, J.) Appealed from circuit court, St. Louis County, Sherry, J. (Cheryl A. Rafert for appellant) (Richard Dwain Lollar for respondent) (Joan Amendola Coulter, guardian ad litem).