A narrowly divided court ruled that a judge must hold a hearing before awarding temporary child custody.

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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 ...

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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. ...

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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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A man is in custody after threatening three judges who were involved in his divorce and child custody dispute, the St. Louis County Circuit Court said in a press release. Jeffrey D. Reuter, 51, formerly a dentist in Kirkwood, was ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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