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Domestic Relations: Child Support-Modification-Child Custody

Where a father challenged a judgment altering visitation provisions and increasing his child-support obligation, the father did not show prejudice from the admission of a court-ordered psychological examination because substantial evidence supported the finding that unsupervised visitation would endanger the ...

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Domestic Relations: Order of Protection-Sufficiency of Evidence of Predicate Acts

Defendant appealed from the order of protection, arguing that there was insufficient evidence to support the trial court’s finding that defendant’s conduct constituted stalking or harassment and that the trial court failed to consider the harm to defendant from the ...

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Domestic Relations: Parenting Plan-Equitable Distribution and Maintenance Award

Wife appealed from the trial court’s dissolution judgment as to the parenting plan, maintenance award, equitable distribution and award of attorney fees in favor of husband. Where wife’s brief failed to comply with the requirements of Rule 84.04, wife failed ...

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Domestic Relations: Settlement Agreement-Business Non-Compete-Contempt

Where a husband challenged a contempt judgment entered against him for actions that his ex-wife claimed violated the parties’ settlement agreement in connection with their lawn care businesses, there was no explicit directive in the agreements regarding the parties’ obligations ...

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Domestic Relations: Joint Custody-Child Support-Monthly Income Calculation

Where a father involved in a dissolution challenged the denial of joint legal custody as well as the calculation and retroactive payment of child support, the trial court found that the father voluntarily stepped out of the older children’s lives ...

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Domestic Relations: Paternity-Child Support

Mother appealed from the trial court’s judgment that granted father sole legal and physical custody of the parties’ child, with mother having visitation, in addition to awarding father child support and ordering mother to pay father’s attorneys’ fees and a ...

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Domestic Relations: Paternity-Child Custody

Mother appealed from the judgment establishing paternity and determining child custody, child support and parenting time. Mother argued that the trial court’s adoption of father’s parenting plan was against the weight of the evidence, exceeded the scope of the matter ...

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Domestic Relations: Termination of Parental Rights-Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

On appeal from the trial court’s grant of the petition for adoption filed by the guardians of K.A.F., which effectively terminated father’s parental rights, father argued that his counsel failed to adequately communicate with him prior to trial, failed to ...

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