A mother must return to Spain and redraw the shared custody plan for her 10-year-old, after she disobeyed a Spanish court order by moving him to her Missouri hometown.

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Among the myriad ways the COVID-19 pandemic is re-shaping lawyers’ lives is the impact of the crisis on their practices. Lawyers in two areas, family and employment law, shared how their practices have shifted in the wake of the virus. ...

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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 ...

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Where a husband involved in a dissolution argued that the wife was unjustly enriched when he involuntarily overpaid child support, the wife’s challenge to the order granting the husband’s motion to set aside a default judgment was untimely and is ...

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Where a husband involved in a dissolution challenged an award of $800 in monthly maintenance,  the trial court did not err in calculating the wife’s income or in considering her post-dissolution increase in expenses, and the court also did not ...

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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 ...

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Defendant appealed the full order of protection entered by the trial court against defendant. Defendant challenged the sufficiency of evidence supporting the trial court’s finding that defendant committed the predicate act of stalking against plaintiff. Where there was no evidence ...

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Where an appellant’s petition for dissolution of marriage was filed in the trial court and dismissed without prejudice so that appellant was free to amend and refile, the appeal must be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction because the dismissal was ...

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Where a wife challenged a trial court’s dismissal of her motion to set aside a judgment of dissolution on the grounds of alleged fraud, arguing that the court erred by granting the husband’s motion for judgment on the pleadings because ...

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Where a husband involved in a dissolution brought a pro se challenge to a judgment against him on the wife’s motion for contempt, the husband’s failure to file a complete transcript and legal file resulted in a record that was ...

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Where a father, who challenged the termination of his parental rights, failed to maintain adequate communication with his child for more than two years while he was in prison and failed to provide even minimal support, the trial court did ...

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