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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 ...

Tagged with: Child Custody Child Support Modification

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 ...

Tagged with: Order Of Protection Sufficiency of Evidence of Predicate Acts

Mother appealed from the termination of her parental rights to her child A.R.F., on grounds of neglect, failure to rectify and parental unfitness. The trial court found that termination was in the child’s best interest. On appeal, mother argued that ...

Tagged with: Likelihood of Future Harm

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 ...

Tagged with: Equitable Distribution and Maintenance Award Parenting Plan

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 ...

Tagged with: Business Non-Compete contempt Settlement Agreement

Where a father challenged a trial court’s judgment granting in part and denying in part his motion to modify child custody and support, the trial court failed to make the statutorily required findings, so the judgment is reversed and remanded. ...

Tagged with: Child Custody Child Support Required Findings

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 ...

Tagged with: Child Support Joint Custody Monthly Income Calculation

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 ...

Tagged with: Child Support paternity

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 ...

Tagged with: Child Custody paternity

Where appellant sought grandparent visitation of her daughter’s children but the daughter had been legally adopted by her stepmother, the appellant was not the grandmother of the children under the statutory definition, so the trial court did not err in ...

Tagged with: adoption Grandparent Visitation

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 ...

Tagged with: ineffective assistance of counsel Termination of Parental Rights