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The parties cross-appealed from the trial court’s equitable distribution judgment, which classified certain stock and cash as marital property, and LLC ownership interests as husband’s separate property. Where there was insufficient evidence to determine whether stock was issued as a ...

Tagged with: divorce Equitable Distribution

Where a wife involved in a dissolution challenged the division of marital property,  the child-custody decision and the denial of her request for maintenance, the wife could not challenge the division of property because she stated that she had no ...

Tagged with: Child Custody maintenance Property Division

Where a mother, who requested counsel and was indigent, sought to prohibit the trial court from proceeding with an underlying termination of parental rights until counsel was appointed to represent her, the preliminary order in prohibition is made permanent because ...

Tagged with: Appointment Of Counsel Parental Rights Termination

Plaintiffs filed suit against the Department of Human Services, the local county and two tribal courts, contesting the tribal court’s jurisdiction over plaintiff Kimberly Watso’s child-custody proceedings for her children. Although Watso was not Native American, her children were through ...

Tagged with: Child Custody Family Law Non-Native American Parent Tribal Court Jurisdiction

Where a husband involved in a dissolution argued that the wife was unjustly enriched when he involuntarily overpaid child support, the wife’s challenge to the order granting the husband’s motion to set aside a default judgment was untimely and is ...

Tagged with: Child-Support Overpayment Family Law unjust enrichment

Where a husband involved in a dissolution challenged an award of $800 in monthly maintenance,  the trial court did not err in calculating the wife’s income or in considering her post-dissolution increase in expenses, and the court also did not ...

Tagged with: Attorney’s Fees Equalization Payment Family Law maintenance

Where a father challenged the denial of his motion to modify child custody and granting in part the mother’s motion, granting her sole legal custody of their daughter, the judgment is affirmed because the trial court properly considered and weighed ...

Tagged with: Child Custody Family Law Sole Custody

Defendant appealed the full order of protection entered by the trial court against defendant. Defendant challenged the sufficiency of evidence supporting the trial court’s finding that defendant committed the predicate act of stalking against plaintiff. Where there was no evidence ...

Tagged with: Family Law Order Of Protection Stalking Sufficiency Of Evidence

Where an appellant’s petition for dissolution of marriage was filed in the trial court and dismissed without prejudice so that appellant was free to amend and refile, the appeal must be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction because the dismissal was ...

Tagged with: Dismissal of Petition Family Law Finality Of Judgments jurisdiction

Where a wife challenged a trial court’s dismissal of her motion to set aside a judgment of dissolution on the grounds of alleged fraud, arguing that the court erred by granting the husband’s motion for judgment on the pleadings because ...

Tagged with: Deceased Party Family Law fraud jurisdiction

Where a husband involved in a dissolution brought a pro se challenge to a judgment against him on the wife’s motion for contempt, the husband’s failure to file a complete transcript and legal file resulted in a record that was ...

Tagged with: Contempt Motion Family Law Insufficient Record