Domestic Relations-Dissolution Judgment-Modification

Staff Report//February 18, 2026//

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Father appealed the trial court’s modification of the parties’ dissolution judgment and child custody order. Father argued that the trial court erred in treating his request for final authority on school choice as a request for sole legal custody and that the evidence did not support the denial of his request. Father also argued that the trial court abused its discretion in awarding mother attorneys’ fees, including anticipated fees for the appeal, and denying father’s request for fees.

Where father failed to prove that designating him as the final decision-maker on school choice was in the best interests of the parties’ child, there was no error in the trial court’s judgment, and father’s inappropriate communications with mother justified the attorney fee award.

Judgment is affirmed.

Kull v. Farahat (MLW No. 84364/Case No. ED113245 – 15 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Clark, J.) Appealed from circuit court, St. Louis County, Hearne, J. (Amr Farahat, appellant pro se) (Alexandra Deering Johnson for respondent)