Where a mother challenged a modification of child custody that replaced her sole physical custody with one hour of supervised visitation per week, the award was not an abuse of discretion because it was in the child’s best interest following ...

Tagged with: Child Custody Emotional Development Supervised Visitation

Where mother challenged a judgment entered on a motion to modify the decree of dissolution and the father cross-appealed, the trial court properly found sufficient evidence of a substantial change in circumstances to warrant an award of sole legal custody ...

Tagged with: Child Custody Child Support

Plaintiff alleged that, two days after completing five days in jail, defendants petitioned the state juvenile court to maintain the protective custody they had over plaintiff’s children. Plaintiff alleged that defendants failed to afford her a hearing on the protective ...

Tagged with: Child Custody Emergency Protective Custody Untimely Hearing

Many mothers detained in border stations this summer reported the health of their children worsened while in custody, recounting bouts of fever, diarrhea and respiratory illness they say were not properly treated, according to a nonprofit legal group’s questionnaire of ...

Tagged with: border wall Child Custody ICE immigrant children Trump zero tolerance policy

Many mothers detained in border stations this summer reported the health of their children worsened while in custody, recounting bouts of fever, diarrhea and respiratory illness they say were not properly treated, according to a nonprofit legal group’s questionnaire of ...

Tagged with: border wall Child Custody ICE immigrant children Trump zero tolerance policy

Where a wife involved in a dissolution challenged the division of marital property,  the child-custody decision and the denial of her request for maintenance, the wife could not challenge the division of property because she stated that she had no ...

Tagged with: Child Custody maintenance Property Division

Plaintiffs filed suit against the Department of Human Services, the local county and two tribal courts, contesting the tribal court’s jurisdiction over plaintiff Kimberly Watso’s child-custody proceedings for her children. Although Watso was not Native American, her children were through ...

Tagged with: Child Custody Non-Native American Parent Tribal Court Jurisdiction

Where a father challenged the denial of his motion to modify child custody and granting in part the mother’s motion, granting her sole legal custody of their daughter, the judgment is affirmed because the trial court properly considered and weighed ...

Tagged with: Child Custody Sole Custody

  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 mother filed a notice of appeal from the original judgment in a dissolution, the judgment did not address the ruling from a modification order, and the mother failed to file her notice of appeal within 10 days ...

Tagged with: Child Custody Family Law Notice Of Appeal timeliness

Plaintiff appealed the dismissal of his claims against various defendants and grant of summary judgment against remaining defendants. Where the court agreed with the district court’s factual findings and conclusions of law and found no abuse of discretion in denying ...

Tagged with: Child Custody Denial of Joinder Domestic Relations Summary-Judgment Dismissal