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

  Where a husband challenged an order that he pay temporary maintenance and set up a temporary custody arrangement for the couple’s minor child, the trial court properly considered the standard of living during the marriage to determine the wife’s ...

Tagged with: Child Custody domestic violence Family Law Temporary Maintenance

  Where a mother, who had executed a consent form and a power of attorney form through an adoption agency, challenged a temporary custody order to the potential adoptive parents of her child, the adoption proceeding remained pending and direct ...

Tagged with: adoption Child Custody Family Law mootness

Where a mother challenged a trial court’s modification of child support and the denial of a physical-custody modification, the modification of support is reversed and remanded because the court used an incorrect Form 14, but the court did not err ...

Tagged with: Child Custody Child Support Domestic Relations Family Law Form 14

Where father failed to assert facts demonstrating the untimely appeal was not due to father’s culpable conduct and where the juvenile court’s termination of custody left no determination for appellate review and left father In same position as prior to ...

Tagged with: Child Custody Court's Termination of Jurisdiction Domestic Relations Late Filing of Appeal

Bowers v. Bowers (MLW No. 71528/Case No. SC96545 – 20 pages) (Supreme Court of Missouri, Draper III, J.; Wilson, Russell, Powell, Breckenridge and Stith, JJ., concur; Fischer, C.J., concurs in separate opinion filed)

Tagged with: Child Custody Domestic Relations Stepfather Third Party