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Mother appealed from the judgment establishing paternity and determining child custody, child support and parenting time. Mother argued that the trial court’s adoption of father’s parenting plan was against the weight of the evidence, exceeded the scope of the matter ...

Tagged with: Child Custody paternity

Where appellant sought grandparent visitation of her daughter’s children but the daughter had been legally adopted by her stepmother, the appellant was not the grandmother of the children under the statutory definition, so the trial court did not err in ...

Tagged with: adoption Grandparent Visitation

On appeal from the trial court’s grant of the petition for adoption filed by the guardians of K.A.F., which effectively terminated father’s parental rights, father argued that his counsel failed to adequately communicate with him prior to trial, failed to ...

Tagged with: ineffective assistance of counsel Termination of Parental Rights

Where a father challenged the denial of his motion to modify child support, which was based on the mother’s increased income, the trial court did not err in denying the motion because there was not a substantial and continuing change ...

Tagged with: Child Support Increased Income Modification

Father appealed from the termination of his parental rights to his children. The children’s division petitioned to terminate father’s parental rights on grounds he had abused and/or neglected the children by leaving them without parental support or making arrangements to ...

Tagged with: Failure to Complete Service Agreement Termination of Parental Rights

Mother appealed from the termination of her parental rights. Mother divorced father, who subsequently married petitioner. Mother and father’s parenting plan contemplated the significant geographical distance between the parties. The court denied termination of mother’s parental rights to one of ...

Tagged with: Divorced Parents Termination of Parental Rights

Appellants appealed from the denial of their motion to intervene in an ongoing juvenile case. Appellants previously adopted three half-siblings of S.M.B. Appellants’ petition to adopt S.M.B. was denied in favor of another couple. When S.M.B. was returned to state ...

Tagged with: adoption Motion To Intervene

Where a husband challenged a judgment of contempt finding that he owed his ex-wife $66,128, judgments of contempt are not final for purposes of appeal, and the garnishment in this case arose from an underlying payment obligation in the original ...

Tagged with: Appellate Jurisdiction Contempt Judgment garnishment

Wife appealed from the judgment dissolving her marriage, which ordered an agreed-upon adjustment in the division of husband’s 401(k), arguing that the adjustment was “contrary to the agreement of the parties” and contrary to “the opinion of the plan administrator” ...

Husband appealed from the judgment of divorce, challenging the trial court’s exercise of discretion in dividing the couple’s marital property, in particular wife’s 401(k) and stock ownership plan, along with the trial court’s order requiring husband to pay wife attorneys’ ...

Tagged with: divorce Equitable Distribution

Where a wife involved in a dissolution challenged a finding that she was not a partner in the couple’s family farming operation, the trial court did not err in finding that the wife’s evidence was not persuasive, and the judgment ...