86 results for 'judge:"Schumacher"'.
J. Schumacher finds that defendant was properly convicted of second-degree murder for shooting his father following a dispute over their cattle farm because the lower court properly allowed the state to admit evidence that cattle had died and farm machinery had fallen into disrepair to establish motive. Affirmed.
Court: Iowa Court Of Appeals, Judge: Schumacher, Filed On: April 24, 2024, Case #: 23-0776, Categories: Evidence, Murder
J. Schumacher finds that a child was properly removed from her mother's care under a child in need of assistance order entered after the father and brother were accused of sexually abusing the child because the record indicates the mother reported false information to authorities. Affirmed.
Court: Iowa Court Of Appeals, Judge: Schumacher, Filed On: April 24, 2024, Case #: 23-2121, Categories: Family Law
J. Schumacher finds that defendant was properly convicted of first-degree murder for killing a man during a drug buy because the state proved malice aforethought by providing evidence that defendant set up the drug buy and attempted to rob the victim before shooting him as he lie on the ground following a scuffle. Affirmed.
Court: Iowa Court Of Appeals, Judge: Schumacher, Filed On: April 10, 2024, Case #: 22-2029, Categories: Evidence, Intent, Murder
J. Schumacher finds that the lower court properly distributed trust funds over which plaintiff and his sister had been named co-trustees following the death of their parents to the sister's children rather than her estate, following the sister's death. A subsection of the trust language required that the distribution be made to the estate since the sister had failed to survive distribution. Affirmed.
Court: Iowa Court Of Appeals, Judge: Schumacher, Filed On: April 10, 2024, Case #: 23-0847, Categories: Trusts
J. Schumacher finds that a child was properly placed in a father's physical care following dissolution of marriage because the mother had unstable housing, transportation, and employment. Affirmed.
Court: Iowa Court Of Appeals, Judge: Schumacher, Filed On: April 10, 2024, Case #: 23-1492, Categories: Family Law
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J. Schumacher finds that property was properly divided in a dissolution of marriage because the husband failed to provide financial information indicating the division had been inequitable. Affirmed.
Court: Iowa Court Of Appeals, Judge: Schumacher, Filed On: April 10, 2024, Case #: 22-1847, Categories: Family Law
J. Schumacher finds that the parties' parental rights were properly terminated since they had left their young children to fend for themselves while the mother was out of town with her boyfriend, and the father had failed to respond to services for drug use. Affirmed.
Court: Iowa Court Of Appeals, Judge: Schumacher, Filed On: April 10, 2024, Case #: 24-0073, Categories: Family Law
J. Schumacher finds that farm property was improperly annexed into a drainage district because neither the engineer’s report nor the annexation report contained sufficient evidence to establish annexation would materially benefit the land.
Court: Iowa Court Of Appeals, Judge: Schumacher, Filed On: March 27, 2024, Case #: 22-1797, Categories: Property
J. Schumacher finds that a mother's parental rights were properly terminated since she had bipolar disorder and borderline intellectual functioning, and she had been convicted of child endangerment after biting and striking her child. Affirmed.
Court: Iowa Court Of Appeals, Judge: Schumacher, Filed On: March 27, 2024, Case #: 23-2020, Categories: Family Law
J. Schumacher finds that the state and a police officer were properly granted summary judgment after the officer shot a man who was possibly attempting to commit suicide by cop when the man pointed a gun at the officer after having already fired a shot, as the use of force was justified. Affirmed.
Court: Iowa Court Of Appeals, Judge: Schumacher, Filed On: March 27, 2024, Case #: 22-1625, Categories: Wrongful Death
J. Schumacher finds that a mother was properly granted sole legal custody of the parties' two children in a dissolution of marriage because the father blocked the children from communicating with their mother while they were in his care and refused to support their ongoing need for therapy. Affirmed.
Court: Iowa Court Of Appeals, Judge: Schumacher, Filed On: March 27, 2024, Case #: 23-1239, Categories: Family Law
J. Schumacher finds that the city was properly held responsible for maintaining a dilapidated cemetery in need of repair because the cemetery fell within city lines and the city was economically capable of providing for its repair. Affirmed.
Court: Iowa Court Of Appeals, Judge: Schumacher, Filed On: March 6, 2024, Case #: 23-1168, Categories: Municipal Law
J. Schumacher finds that a child was properly removed from her father's care under a child-in-need-of-assistance order since she credibly alleged her father and/or brother had been sexually abusing her. Affirmed.
Court: Iowa Court Of Appeals, Judge: Schumacher, Filed On: March 6, 2024, Case #: 23-1533, Categories: Family Law
J. Schumacher finds that a child was properly removed from her mother in a child-in-need-of-assistance proceeding based on the mother's history of using and selling methamphetamine, which was in the child's system at birth, and because she was inconsistent with and did not engage during visitation. Affirmed.
Court: Iowa Court Of Appeals, Judge: Schumacher, Filed On: March 6, 2024, Case #: 23-1877, Categories: Family Law
J. Schumacher finds that the lower court properly held that a company did not interfere with a contract after an heir who borrowed money from the company to purchase property from an estate turned around and sold the property to the company because a second heir who disputed the sale did not have an enforceable contract with the estate. Affirmed.
Court: Iowa Court Of Appeals, Judge: Schumacher, Filed On: February 21, 2024, Case #: 23-0564, Categories: Interference With Contract
J. Schumacher finds that child support was properly modified to require the mother to pay support to the father following dissolution of marriage. The father was the noncustodial parent, but he spent significant time caring for the child. Affirmed.
Court: Iowa Court Of Appeals, Judge: Schumacher, Filed On: February 21, 2024, Case #: 23-0727, Categories: Family Law
J. Schumacher finds that the county board of supervisors acted legally in rezoning a portion of property from agricultural to light industrial against the wishes of a nearby resident because the board was not required to amend the county's comprehensive plan, and the board’s decision was consistent with that plan. Affirmed.
Court: Iowa Court Of Appeals, Judge: Schumacher, Filed On: February 7, 2024, Case #: 23-0142, Categories: Zoning
J. Schumacher finds that a wife was properly denied spousal support in a dissolution of marriage since she received $6 million in assets in the divorce and will qualify for social security benefits in a short time. Affirmed.
Court: Iowa Court Of Appeals, Judge: Schumacher, Filed On: February 7, 2024, Case #: 23-0177, Categories: Family Law
J. Schumacher finds that a mother's parental rights were properly terminated since the children had been discovered by a garbage dumpster after sleeping in a car all night, and the mother could not safely supervise them due to alcohol abuse. Affirmed.
Court: Iowa Court Of Appeals, Judge: Schumacher, Filed On: January 24, 2024, Case #: 23-1590, Categories: Family Law
J. Schumacher finds that a grandfather's visitation rights with his granddaughter were properly terminated because his guardianship of the child ceased following the child's adoption, and he did not have a right to continued visitation. Affirmed.
Court: Iowa Court Of Appeals, Judge: Schumacher, Filed On: January 24, 2024, Case #: 23-0414, Categories: Family Law
J. Schumacher finds that the lower court improperly rewrote the decedent's will to include property in a trust against the wishes of her sons because the will did not contain ambiguities, and the district court improperly considered the testimony of the scrivener to find that the decedent's intent differed from the language of the will. Reversed
Court: Iowa Court Of Appeals, Judge: Schumacher, Filed On: January 10, 2024, Case #: 22-2045, Categories: Wills / Probate