Domestic Relations: Divorce-Division of Marital Property

Staff Report//September 21, 2023//

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Defendant appealed the divorce judgment, which divided the parties’ marital property and determined child custody and support. Plaintiff moved to dismiss the appeal due to the deficiencies in defendant’s brief.

Where defendant’s brief failed to conform to the requirements of Rule 84.04, including lacking page references to the record, the court dismissed the appeal.

Appeal is dismissed.

In re the Marriage of: Kurz (MLW No. 80525/Case No. SD37918 – 4 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Goodman, J.) Appealed from circuit court, Jasper County, Holcomb, J. (John Luther Young, Springfield, for appellant) (Charles Spencer Genisio, Joplin, for respondent)