(1)Where a husband involved in a dissolution challenged the trial court’s grant of his attorney’s motion to withdraw and the denial of his motion for a continuance, the motion to withdraw was accompanied by the husband’s written consent to the ...

Tagged with: Attorney Withdrawal Continuance Division Of Property Family Law

Where a pro se brief filed by a mother in a child-custody dispute included numerous briefing deficiencies, only her point challenging the denial of a continuance is reviewed, and the mother failed to comply with Rule 65.03 in making the ...

Tagged with: Briefing Deficiencies Continuance Domestic Relations Family Law Family Law Pro Se Parties

Where a mother challenged a trial court’s decision awarding child custody and visitation and eliminating child support for one child, the record lacked sufficient evidence regarding the oldest child’s education to support the finding of emancipation, so the judgment is ...

Tagged with: Child Support Domestic Relations emancipation Family Law Family Law Income Disparity

Where a mother challenged a judgment finding her in contempt of court and abating child support that she had been awarded, arguing that an order for the family to participate in counseling was too indefinite to support a contempt finding, ...

Tagged with: Contempt of Court Domestic Relations Family Counseling Family Law Family Law Visitation

Where a mother involved in a dissolution challenged the orders for child support and the distribution of marital property, the trial court erred in reducing the child-support obligation because the child-support start date predated the filing of her petition and ...

Tagged with: Child Support Distribution Domestic Relations Family Law Marital Property

Where a husband involved in a dissolution defaulted on his obligation under a separation agreement to sell and equally divide the proceeds of the parties’ properties, the trial court erred by awarding damages to the wife instead of ordering the ...

Tagged with: Defaulted Obligation Domestic Relations Family Law Family Law Motion To Enforce Separation Agreement

  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 husband involved in a dissolution argued that the trial court erred in failing to classify and set aside certain property as non-marital property, the husband did not request specific findings of fact as to the designated property ...

Tagged with: Allocation Of Debt Family Law Family Law Marital Property

  Where a father brought sued the mother of his children and her parents for intentional interference with custody and false imprisonment after the mother abducted the children for three years with her parents’ help, and the jury returned a ...

Tagged with: Child Abduction Family Law Interference With Custody jury instructions

  Where a mother challenged the award of third-party custody of a minor child to the man the child knew as his father for his first nine years, the biological parents were found to be unfit, and the trial court’s ...

Tagged with: Family Law Family Law Putative Father Sufficiency Of Evidence Third-Party Custody

  Defendant appealed from the divorce judgment, arguing that the trial court erred by not including legal descriptions for the real estate included in the equitable distribution, by not awarding the parties their nonmarital property prior to distributing the marital ...

Tagged with: divorce Equitable Distribution Family Law Family Law Marital vs. Nonmarital Property