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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 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 maintenance

Where a defendant, who was convicted of furnishing pornographic materials to a minor and first-degree statutory sodomy, challenged the testimony of two witnesses regarding delayed disclosures of sexual abuse, the trial court did not err in allowing the testimony because ...

Tagged with: Delayed Disclosures witness testimony

Where a property owner challenged the issuance of a permit to discharge water onto its property and the Administrative Hearing Commission dismissed its permit appeal as untimely, the judgment is reversed because the relevant statutes did not conflict and the ...

Tagged with: Permit Appeal timeliness

Where an insurer challenged a trial court’s denial of a motion for a directed verdict against the wife of a deceased patient after a jury trial in which the insurer was the defendant, a settlement between the doctor and his ...

Tagged with: Rescission Of Policy Settlement Agreement

Where residents challenged the grant of liquor licenses to an establishment in their neighborhood, the judgment is reversed and remanded because the decision failed to include findings of fact on the issue of whether granting the application would be detrimental ...

Tagged with: findings of fact Liquor License Application Municipal Ordinance

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 Finality Of Judgments jurisdiction

Where class representatives, who claimed an employer failed to pay overtime compensation, challenged the trial court’s denial of their amended motion for class certification, the judgment is reversed and remanded because the evidence was sufficient to fulfill the numerosity requirement ...

Tagged with: class action Denial of Certification Numerosity Requirement

  Where a driver challenged the revocation of his driving privileges in a DWI case, the arresting officer provided testimony that the driver refused to submit to the request for a breath test, so the trial court did not err ...

Tagged with: Breath Test Refusal DWI

Where a defendant challenged his conviction for first-degree tampering and an order of restitution, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting evidence of other thefts and drug use because the evidence was relevant to establish the defendant’s ...

Tagged with: Propensity Evidence restitution Tampering

Where a plaintiff who prevailed in a wrongful-death action brought a garnishment claim against the defendants’ insurer, the court properly found that an assault-and-battery exclusion did not bar the claim and that the insurer wrongfully refused to defend the named ...

Tagged with: Assault-and-Battery Exclusion Failure to Defend garnishment