On appeal from the trial court’s grant of the petition for adoption filed by the guardians of K.A.F., which effectively terminated father’s parental rights, father argued that his counsel failed to adequately communicate with him prior to trial, failed to ...

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Father appealed from the termination of his parental rights to his children. The children’s division petitioned to terminate father’s parental rights on grounds he had abused and/or neglected the children by leaving them without parental support or making arrangements to ...

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Mother appealed from the termination of her parental rights. Mother divorced father, who subsequently married petitioner. Mother and father’s parenting plan contemplated the significant geographical distance between the parties. The court denied termination of mother’s parental rights to one of ...

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Mother appealed from the judgment terminating her parental rights to her child on grounds of abuse and neglect, failure to rectify conditions, and parental unfitness. On appeal, mother challenged the trial court’s findings of fact and argued that the decision ...

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The trial court entered a judgment involuntarily terminating T.B.’s parental rights to her child, A.R.B. On appeal, T.B. raised multiple claims of error in the termination proceedings. Where T.B.’s claims of denial of counsel and complaints regarding the guardian ad ...

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The Children’s Division alleged neglect by parents, who were both deaf, and assumed jurisdiction over the children who were residing with father; the division declined to give custody to mother due to her unstable housing situation. After parents failed to ...

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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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Defendant’s parental rights to his children were terminated after the trial court found, based on video interviews of the children’s half-siblings, that defendant committed physical and emotional abuse of the children. On appeal, defendant challenged the admission of the interviews ...

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In Re the Adoption of: C.M. v. E.M.B.R. (MLW No. 65597/Case No. SD32228 – 81 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Francis Jr., J.)

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In the Interest of: J.S.W. (MLW No. 62267/Case No. ED95390 – 9 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Romines, J.)

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Greene County Juvenile Office v. M.E.G. (MLW No. 62173/Case No. SD30866 – 25 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, per curiam)

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