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Where a mother challenged a modification of child custody that replaced her sole physical custody with one hour of supervised visitation per week, the award was not an abuse of discretion because it was in the child’s best interest following ...

Tagged with: Child Custody Emotional Development Supervised Visitation

Mother appealed from the judgment terminating her parental rights to her child on grounds of abuse and neglect, failure to rectify conditions, and parental unfitness. On appeal, mother challenged the trial court’s findings of fact and argued that the decision ...

Tagged with: Abuse or Neglect Termination of Parental Rights

Defendant appealed the judgment of the trial court finding defendant liable for a share of the higher education expenses of the parties’ daughter. The parties’ separation agreement, made part of their divorce decree, required each parent to pay 50 percent ...

Tagged with: Child-Support Arrearages Separation Agreement

Relator filed a petition for writ of prohibition seeking an order directing respondent to cease operation of a “domestic abuse court,” which was an unauthorized treatment court division created by respondent, who placed defendants in the DAC as a special ...

Tagged with: Prohibition Proceeding Unauthorized Treatment Court Division

Where a trial court ordered the sale of a marital residence with the proceeds to be divided between a man and his ex-wife after the deduction of the sale expenses and the outstanding mortgage debt after the initial dissolution order ...

Tagged with: Fair Rental Value Marital Property Sale of Residence

Where mother challenged a judgment entered on a motion to modify the decree of dissolution and the father cross-appealed, the trial court properly found sufficient evidence of a substantial change in circumstances to warrant an award of sole legal custody ...

Tagged with: Child Custody Child Support

The trial court entered a judgment involuntarily terminating T.B.’s parental rights to her child, A.R.B. On appeal, T.B. raised multiple claims of error in the termination proceedings. Where T.B.’s claims of denial of counsel and complaints regarding the guardian ad ...

Tagged with: Collateral Attack Termination of Parental Rights

D.R. moved to set aside E.R.S.’s adoption. In response, the adoptive parents moved to strike D.R.’s motion, asserting that he was not a party to the underlying adoption action and therefore the trial court had no authority to grant D.R. ...

Tagged with: Motion to Set Aside Adoption Standing

Plaintiff alleged that, two days after completing five days in jail, defendants petitioned the state juvenile court to maintain the protective custody they had over plaintiff’s children. Plaintiff alleged that defendants failed to afford her a hearing on the protective ...

Tagged with: Child Custody Emergency Protective Custody Untimely Hearing

Plaintiffs sought judicial review of the Clean Water Commission’s approval of a permit application for a poultry-concentrated, animal-feeding operation. Plaintiffs argued that the applicant failed to show production-area setback distances or provide a copy of proposed building plans. Plaintiffs also ...

Tagged with: Animal-Feeding Operation Poultry-Concentrated Setback Distances Validity of Commissioners

Where a father who argued that he was exempt from paying child support challenged a trial court’s denial of his motion to take depositions of his daughter and a detective and also challenged the court’s determination that the child was ...

Tagged with: Child Support Deposition of Child emancipation