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An attorney who prepared and filed his own income tax returns but failed to pay the tax for four years was suspended from practice by the Missouri Supreme Court in an original disciplinary proceeding. The decision came December 18 in ...

A court-ordered reduction of a divorced father’s periods of temporary child custody was a “modification,” not a “restriction” of his rights under § 452.400.2, RSMo Supp. 1989, and thus did not require a finding that the child’s health was endangered ...

The Missouri Supreme Court accepted transfer of four cases in December, while denying requests to transfer 27 others. Three of the transfers granted were in civil cases; one was a criminal case. An additional case that had been accepted for ...

Where a drunk driver in an auto accident killed the unborn child of a pregnant woman, the fetus was a “person” from “the moment of conception” under Missouri’s abortion law, so the driver was guilty of manslaughter, the Missouri Supreme ...