Where children, who sought the appointment of a guardian and conservator for their mother, challenged a judgment in her favor by the probate court, the mother died during the appeal, so the issue is now moot, so the appeal is ...

Tagged with: Appointment Guardianship mootness

Where a father challenged a probate court order appointing his child’s grandmother as the guardian for the child, the trial court did not err in finding that there was sufficient evidence to show that he was unwilling, unable or unfit ...

Tagged with: Fitness Guardianship Sufficiency Of Evidence

  Where a wife challenged the probate division’s denial of her motion to remove the public administrator as the guardian and conservator for her incapacitated husband and to appoint herself and her daughter as successors, there was no statutory basis ...

Tagged with: Attorney's fees Guardianship probate Removal

In the Interests of: C.H., B.H & T.C. (MLW No. 70912/Case No. ED104772 – 15 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Odenwald, J.)

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Guardianship Parental Fitness

In the Matter of A.L.R.; K.R. v. A.L.S. (MLW No. 70298/Case No. SC95939 – 11 pages) (Supreme Court of Missouri, Stith, J.; Breckenridge, C.J.; Fischer, Draper, Wilson and Russell, JJ., concur)

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Guardianship Parental Fitness Standard Of Proof

In re L.M. (MLW No. 69131/Case No. ED102342 – 19 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, James M. Dowd, J.)

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Fitness Determination Guardianship

Rogers v. Department of Social Services (MLW No. 69079/Case No. SD33714 – 5 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Bates, J.)

Tagged with: Guardianship jurisdiction Juvenile Case probate

In the Matter of S.J.M. (MLW No. 67370/Case No. ED101082 – 17 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Quigless, J.)

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Guardianship

J.R.D. v. J.L.D. (MLW No. 67255/Case No. ED101337 – 9 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Sullivan, J.)

Tagged with: Abandonment Domestic Relations Guardianship

Where a woman sought a termination of a co-guardianship she shared with her parents over her daughter, the denial of the woman’s petition is affirmed because she did not meet her burden to show that it was in the child’s ...

Tagged with: Best Interests Guardianship probate Termination

Rash v. Wilson (MLW No. 64591/Case No. WD75298 – 15 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Hardwick, J.)

Tagged with: Guardianship Hardwick probate