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Child Custody

Sep 6, 2022

AP seeks ex-Missouri Gov. Greitens’ child custody record

The Associated Press has joined The Kansas City Star's motion to get a sealed court record from former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens’ child custody case.

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Apr 6, 2020

Supreme Court sends custody dispute back to closed courthouse

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

Feb 21, 2020

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 children’s physical health or emotional development, and the trial court did not err in [...]

Jan 17, 2020

Family Law: Child Custody-Child Support-Required Findings

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. Judgment is reversed and remanded. T.J.E. v. M.R.M. (MLW No. 74406/Case No. ED107697 – 10 […]

Dec 30, 2019

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 before the trial court, and was based upon an improper guardian ad litem recommendation. Where […]

Dec 12, 2019

Man who threatened three judges arrested after armed standoff

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 arrested Dec. 11 in Bonne Terre after a three-hour armed standoff with police attempting to […]

Oct 7, 2019

Domestic Relations: Child Custody-Supervised Visitation-Emotional Development

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 the mother’s efforts to deliberately alienate the child from her father, and the judgment is […]

Sep 23, 2019

Domestic Relations: Child Custody-Child Support

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 to the father, and the court did not err in ordering the mother to pay […]

Sep 18, 2019

Domestic Relations: Child Custody-Emergency Protective Custody-Untimely Hearing

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 custody within the time mandated by state law and unlawfully seized her children due to […]

Sep 5, 2019

Many moms say kids’ health worsened in immigration custody

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 200 detained women. The Dilley Pro Bono Project handed out a 13-question survey, mostly in […]

Sep 5, 2019

Many moms say kid’s health worsened in immigration custody

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 200 detained women. The Dilley Pro Bono Project handed out a 13-question survey, mostly in […]

Jul 29, 2019

Domestic Relations: Property Division-Child Custody-Maintenance

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 objection to the division proposed by the husband, so under the invited-error principle she could […]

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