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Husband appealed from the trial court’s judgment of dissolution of marriage. Wife moved to dismiss husband’s appeal due to Rule 84.04 violations and other briefing deficiencies. Where husband failed to include concise statements describing where the errors complained of on ...

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Mother appealed from the judgment granting grandparent visitation rights with mother’s son to the child’s paternal grandfather, the father of mother’s deceased husband. Mother argued that she did not deny grandfather reasonable visitation for a period exceeding 90 days. Where ...

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(1) Where a father challenged a judgment modifying an original dissolution decree, the trial court erred in striking expert testimony on the son’s employability and emancipation, so the appellate court exercised its discretion to render the appropriate judgment, finding that ...

Tagged with: Child Support emancipation expert testimony

Where a father challenged a judgment altering visitation provisions and increasing his child-support obligation, the father did not show prejudice from the admission of a court-ordered psychological examination because substantial evidence supported the finding that unsupervised visitation would endanger the ...

Tagged with: Child Custody Child Support Modification

Defendant appealed from the order of protection, arguing that there was insufficient evidence to support the trial court’s finding that defendant’s conduct constituted stalking or harassment and that the trial court failed to consider the harm to defendant from the ...

Tagged with: Order Of Protection Sufficiency of Evidence of Predicate Acts

Mother appealed from the termination of her parental rights to her child A.R.F., on grounds of neglect, failure to rectify and parental unfitness. The trial court found that termination was in the child’s best interest. On appeal, mother argued that ...

Tagged with: Likelihood of Future Harm

Wife appealed from the trial court’s dissolution judgment as to the parenting plan, maintenance award, equitable distribution and award of attorney fees in favor of husband. Where wife’s brief failed to comply with the requirements of Rule 84.04, wife failed ...

Tagged with: Equitable Distribution and Maintenance Award Parenting Plan

Where a husband challenged a contempt judgment entered against him for actions that his ex-wife claimed violated the parties’ settlement agreement in connection with their lawn care businesses, there was no explicit directive in the agreements regarding the parties’ obligations ...

Tagged with: Business Non-Compete contempt Settlement Agreement

Where a father challenged a trial court’s judgment granting in part and denying in part his motion to modify child custody and support, the trial court failed to make the statutorily required findings, so the judgment is reversed and remanded. ...

Tagged with: Child Custody Child Support Required Findings

Where a father involved in a dissolution challenged the denial of joint legal custody as well as the calculation and retroactive payment of child support, the trial court found that the father voluntarily stepped out of the older children’s lives ...

Tagged with: Child Support Joint Custody Monthly Income Calculation

Mother appealed from the trial court’s judgment that granted father sole legal and physical custody of the parties’ child, with mother having visitation, in addition to awarding father child support and ordering mother to pay father’s attorneys’ fees and a ...

Tagged with: Child Support paternity