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Probate: Guardianship-Appointment-Mootness
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 dismissed. Appeal is dismissed. In the Matter of Selma McDonald Norton v. McDonald (MLW No. […]
Probate: Guardianship-Fitness-Sufficiency Of Evidence
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 to care for the child, so the judgment is affirmed. Judgment is affirmed. In the […]
Probate: Guardianship-Removal-Attorneys’ Fees
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 for the removal or successor appointment, and the judgment is affirmed because the refusal to […]
Domestic Relations : Guardianship – Parental Fitness
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.)
Domestic Relations : Guardianship – Parental Fitness – Standard Of Proof
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)
Domestic Relations : Guardianship – Fitness Determination
In re L.M. (MLW No. 69131/Case No. ED102342 – 19 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, James M. Dowd, J.)
Probate : Guardianship – Juvenile Case – Jurisdiction
Rogers v. Department of Social Services (MLW No. 69079/Case No. SD33714 – 5 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Bates, J.)
Domestic Relations : Incapacitated Child – Guardianship – Probate Jurisdiction
In the Matter of S.J.M. (MLW No. 67370/Case No. ED101082 – 17 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Quigless, J.)
Domestic Relations : Guardianship – Abandonment – Third Party
J.R.D. v. J.L.D. (MLW No. 67255/Case No. ED101337 – 9 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Sullivan, J.)
Probate: Guardianship – Termination – Best Interests
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 best interest to terminate the guardianship and she also waived her claim that the judgment […]
Probate: Guardianship – Competing Homes
Rash v. Wilson (MLW No. 64591/Case No. WD75298 – 15 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Hardwick, J.)
Probate: Guardianship – Child Custody – Habeas Proceeding
In the Estate of: A.T. (MLW No. 64228/Case No. ED98024 – 3 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Richter, J.)
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