Where a husband challenged a trial court’s award of temporary maintenance to his ex-wife, the award was supported by substantial evidence based on the wife’s showing of need and her inability to support herself, but the judgment is reversed in ...

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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 ...

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Where a husband challenged a trial court’s denial of his motion to modify or terminate maintenance, the court did not err because the wife could not meet her reasonable needs despite her increased income, but the judgment is reversed in ...

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Where a husband involved in a dissolution challenged the division of property and the maintenance award, arguing that the maintenance awarded in an interlocutory judgment was not final, the award was not final because it did not order a complete ...

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Father appealed from the termination of his parental rights to his daughter C.E.B. on the statutory grounds of neglect, after the trial court found father suffered from a mental condition and chemical dependency and had repeatedly failed to provide for ...

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Where a father claimed his ex-wife fraudulently, negligently and intentionally misrepresented that he was the father of her three children when paternity testing eventually showed that he was not the father of the second child, the trial court properly dismissed ...

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Where a husband involved in a dissolution challenged the division of property, the trial court erred by failing to identify which properties were marital and non-marital, so the appellate court was unable to determine whether the distribution was just, and ...

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Juvenile Officer v. C.F. (MLW No. 71503/Case No. WD80805 – 19 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Ahuja, J.)

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In the Interest of A.F.W. v. C.B.W. (MLW No. 71423/Case No. SD35110 – 12 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Lynch, J.)

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Where a father tested positive for marijuana on numerous occasions but did not meet the updated definition of cannabis abuse outlined in DSM-V, and he acted appropriately with his child, the interactions with the child were positive, the father and ...

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Where a trial court pre-determined a fine if a father did not take his children to their therapy sessions or if he had the children during the mother’s custody time, the judgment is reversed in part because the court ordered ...

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