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Rehabilitative maintenance; vague order SD28977 Timothy R. Isakson, Appellant, v. Tracie L. Isakson, Respondent Appeal From: Phelps County Circuit Court, Judge Tracy L. Storie Handdown Date: 2/6/2009 Opinion Author: Judge Daniel E. Scott Opinion Vote: Judges Barney and Bates, concur ...

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(1)Where a trial court in a dissolution designated the mother’s address as the children’s for educational and mailing purposes without issuing specific written findings as to the best interests of the children, the case must be remanded for the entry ...

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Where a trial court in a dissolution entered an order for the physician husband to pay 100 percent of the wife’s education expenses for obtaining a bachelor’s and master’s degrees but there was no evidence presented of when the wife ...

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Where a mother could not provide a plausible explanation for life-threatening injuries suffered by one of her children while in the care of her boyfriend with whom the mother continued a relationship even after her children were taken into custody ...

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(1)Where an unwed father signed an acknowledgment of paternity, the father may contest the adoption but his consent to the adoption is not required under Section 453.030, and the father’s constitutional rights were not violated by the statutory adoption procedure ...

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Where grandparents sought custody of two children claiming both parents were unfit, the trial court erred in excluding on the basis of privilege testimony from a social worker who counseled the children because the privilege is inapplicable when child abuse ...

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Where a husband in a dissolution appealed the disproportionate division of marital property, the trial court did not err in finding that the couple’s investment income and retirement benefits were marital property and the court’s finding that husband’s support of ...

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Paternity; extrinsic fraud   WD69198 Natalie Walker, Respondent, v. Michael Aaron Walker, Appellant Appeal From: Jackson County Circuit Court, Judge Marco Antonio Roldan Handdown Date: 1/13/2009 Opinion Author: Judge James M. Smart Jr. Opinion Vote: Judges Lisa White Hardwick and ...

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Where a husband did not submit to paternity testing until after his divorce was final and paternity had already been adjudicated, the court properly dismissed the husband’s motion for a declaration of non-paternity because the husband did not invoke the ...

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