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Domestic Relations: Continuance-Briefing Deficiencies-Pro Se Parties
Staff Report//May 28, 2019
Where a pro se brief filed by a mother in a child-custody dispute included numerous briefing deficiencies, only her point challenging the denial of a continuance is reviewed, and the mother failed to comply with Rule 65.03 in making the motion for continuance, so the judgment is affirmed.
Judgment is affirmed.
Tatum v. Tatum (MLW No. 73247/Case No. ED106826 – 11 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Sullivan, J.) Appealed from circuit court, St. Charles County, Banas, J. (Damon Tatum, pro se) (Mercedeas Tatum, pro se).
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