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  Where a wife challenged the probate division’s denial of her motion to remove the public administrator as the guardian and conservator for her incapacitated husband and to appoint herself and her daughter as successors, there was no statutory basis ...

Tagged with: Attorney's fees Guardianship probate Removal

  Where a mother challenged a trial court’s modification of child custody and child support, the judgment is reversed because no evidence was presented at the hearing on the father’s motion regarding custody to show a change in the circumstances ...

Tagged with: Child Custody Family Law Modification Sufficiency Of Evidence

  Where a prisoner sought a release to probate or a hearing on whether probation should be granted, arguing that his failure to complete the 120-day treatment program was due to an improper calculation of the 120-day period by the ...

Tagged with: 120-Day Program Criminal Law Date Calculation probation

  Where a defendant found guilty of second-degree assault challenged the trial court’s refusal to suppress evidence and testimony related to a warrantless blood draw, there were no exigent circumstances presented to justify the warrantless search, so the judgment is ...

Tagged with: Assault Case Blood Draw Criminal Law Warrantless

  Where a limited liability company, which entered into a contract for the sale of farmland, challenged a trial court’s refusal to grant specific performance, the company’s only evidence that it was ready, willing and able to perform the contracts ...

Tagged with: contracts Property Sale Specific Performance

  Where a school district sent a county coroner a written request for records under the Missouri Sunshine Law, which was denied and challenged by the school district, the appellate court lacked jurisdiction over the appeal because the trial court’s ...

Tagged with: civil practice jurisdiction Sunshine Law

  Where appellant challenged a finding that its CPR instructors were employees rather than independent contractors after a former instructor submitted a claim for unemployment benefits, the evidence showed that the appellant controlled the results of the instructors’ work as ...

Tagged with: Administrative Employment Status independent contractors Unemployment Benefits

Defendant rented a mobile home lot from plaintiff; the terms of the lease stated that the property could be occupied only by the named tenants and that the lease was not assignable or subleasable without plaintiff’s approval. Defendant and her ...

Tagged with: breach of lease Landlord-Tenant Preclusion of Assignment and Sublease Property Law

  Plaintiff appealed the denial of its complaint for declaratory judgment to allow contributions from a corporation’s treasury to a PAC established or maintained by that corporation. Plaintiff argued that the trial court erred by ruling that the Campaign Contribution ...

Tagged with: Campaign Contribution Reform Contributions from Corporate Treasury Corporate-Administered PAC election law

  Defendant appealed from the divorce judgment, arguing that the trial court erred by not including legal descriptions for the real estate included in the equitable distribution, by not awarding the parties their nonmarital property prior to distributing the marital ...

Tagged with: divorce Equitable Distribution Family Law Marital vs. Nonmarital Property

  Petitioner appealed from the denial of his pro se post-conviction motion, arguing that the trial court violated his due process rights by accepting a statement in lieu of an amended motion filed by appointed post-conviction counsel because no attorney ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law Denial of Due Process Post-Conviction Relief Pro Se Statement