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Family Law: Third-Party Custody-Putative Father-Sufficiency Of Evidence
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 findings were sufficient to support the award of third-party custody to the putative father. Judgment […]
Domestic Relations: Third-Party Custody-Sufficiency Of Evidence
Where a man, who was not the biological father of his girlfriend’s child but acted as such from her birth, sought custody or visitation with the child after the mother began to prohibit contact between the two, the man pleaded facts sufficient to support a claim for third-party custody, so dismissal for failure to state […]
Domestic Relations : Breach Of Contract – Third-Party Custody – Same-Sex Couple
K.M.M. v. K.E.W. (MLW No. 71075/Case No. ED105087 – 28 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Sullivan, J.)
Domestic Relations : Child Custody – Third-Party Custody – Natural Father
Bowers v. Bowers (MLW No. 70593/Case No. ED103176 – 39 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Hoff, J.)
Domestic Relations : Third-Party Custody – Standing
Hanson v. Carroll (MLW No. 69923/Case No. ED103530 – 9 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Gaertner Jr., J.)
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