2,498 results for 'cat:"Family Law"'.
J. Walker finds that the lower court improperly denied the foster parents' motion to stay the change of placement of two child in their care. The foster parents were not given a chance to address the court at a second hearing on the children's placement before the court ordered the children removed from the foster home where they had lived for the last five years. Reversed.
Court: Illinois Appellate Court, Judge: Walker, Filed On: April 26, 2024, Case #: 231670, Categories: family Law
Per curiam, the Nevada supreme court grants the petition for a writ of mandamus challenging the denial of a petition for temporary guardianship over minor children. The grandparents filed a petition for general guardianship, explaining that the children had been exposed to unsafe conditions living with their mother and her new partner with a criminal background. The petition was denied without prejudice for failure to provide proof of proper service. The mother filed an objection, and the children filed to appoint the grandparents as temporary guardians pending a decision on general guardianship. The court denied the petition without a hearing, failing to give the request consideration.
Court: Nevada Supreme Court, Judge: Per curiam, Filed On: April 25, 2024, Case #: 88027, Categories: family Law, Due Process, Guardianship
J. Silva finds that the lower court properly terminated the parental rights of the mother to her two children. Contrary to the mother's arguments on appeal, the evidence sufficiently supports the statutory grounds for termination and the lower court's best interest finding. There was evidence of drug use by the mother while she was pregnant. There was also evidence that she failed to complete her service plan and testimony that the children's current foster placement is with a "loving home." Affirmed.
Court: Texas Courts of Appeals, Judge: Silva, Filed On: April 25, 2024, Case #: 13-23-00591-CV, Categories: Evidence, family Law
J. Byrne finds that the trial court properly ruled against a father in a divorce case. The father challenges the court's decision to give the mother the right to choose the children's place of residence, alleging that past instances where the children were injured in the mother's care placed them at risk. The mother's testimony and evidentiary record refute the father's claims. Having failed to show that being placed with their mother would not be in the children's best interest, the trial court correctly ruled against the father. Affirmed.
Court: Texas Courts of Appeals, Judge: Byrne, Filed On: April 25, 2024, Case #: 03-22-00290-CV, Categories: family Law
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J. Garcia finds that the lower court properly entered an order in this suit to modify the parent-child relationship. The order required the mother to pay child support to the father, and the mother now argues that the evidence was insufficient to establish "a material and substantial change of circumstances." However, the record does not contain certain interviews, and there is a presumption that "the missing evidence supports the trial judge's finding." Affirmed.
Court: Texas Courts of Appeals, Judge: Garcia, Filed On: April 25, 2024, Case #: 05-23-00392-CV, Categories: Evidence, family Law
J. Hixson finds the circuit court properly terminated the parents' rights to their children based on sufficient evidence. The department was granted a petition for emergency custody and dependency-neglect after the mother tested positive for multiple drugs when giving birth. It then found each parent to be in partial and minimal compliance with the original case plan for reunification. Though certain evidence shows the parents were bonded with the children, the bond is not sufficient to prevent termination. Affirmed.
Court: Arkansas Court Of Appeals, Judge: Hixson , Filed On: April 24, 2024, Case #: CV-23-785, Categories: Evidence, family Law, Guardianship
J. Riley finds that the trial court properly held defendant in contempt and ordered her to serve 90 days in jail for lying three times in court about the existence and death of a child who did not exist, as the lies made it impossible for child services to determine if the child was real. Affirmed.
Court: Indiana Court Of Appeals, Judge: Riley, Filed On: April 24, 2024, Case #: 23A-JM-2671, Categories: Contempt, family Law
J. Jones denies the father's petition seeking the return of his child to Mexico under the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. Although the family "see-sawed" between Mexico and the United States since the child's birth, the majority of the child’s school and medical connections are in Washington, and the father looked at various houses to purchase in the United States. Because the child's habitual residence is the United States, the father's petition is denied.
Court: USDC Western District of Washington, Judge: Jones, Filed On: April 24, 2024, Case #: 2:23cv1655, NOS: Other Statutory Actions - Other Suits, Categories: family Law, International Law
J. Harrison finds the circuit court properly entered the divorce decree and custody and support order, finding the ex-wife to be in contempt. The court correctly denied the mother's request to relocate, finding it in the child's best interest to remain where his support system is located. There is ample evidence the mother's failure to control her emotions caused the child's anxiety during visitation exchanges. At one exchange, the mother was crying so loudly she could not hear the visitation supervisor speaking. The child's counselor also testified that certain of the mother's actions could be considered intentional sabotage and that it is damaging for the child to be purposefully kept from his father. Affirmed.
Court: Arkansas Court Of Appeals, Judge: Harrison , Filed On: April 24, 2024, Case #: CV-23-240, Categories: Evidence, family Law, Guardianship
J. Murphy finds the circuit court properly denied the stepfather's petition to adopt his 13-year-old stepdaughter. The stepfather sought adoption after the child's biological father petitioned to establish paternity and visitation. Though the healthy, academically achieving daughter considers her stepfather her father, having no interest in visitations with her biological father, the record demonstrates the mother hindered the biological father/daughter relationship by not telling him about her for the first two years of her life. The mother also told the daughter she was conceived by rape. The biological father has regularly paid child support, also carrying insurance on the daughter. Adoption is in derogation of the natural parent's rights and the biological father has contested the adoption. Affirmed.
Court: Arkansas Court Of Appeals, Judge: Murphy , Filed On: April 24, 2024, Case #: CV-23-311, Categories: Evidence, family Law, Guardianship
J. Stone finds that the trial court should not have recused a judge in this divorce case based on the husband's claim of impartiality. There was no evidence that the judge was “biased, prejudiced, or interested in the cause” of this matter. Reversed and vacated.
Court: Louisiana Court Of Appeal, Judge: Stone, Filed On: April 24, 2024, Case #: 55,605-CA, Categories: Evidence, family Law
Per curiam, the appellate division finds that the lower court improperly dismissed the paternal grandmother's petition for additional visitation with her grandchildren due to the mother's cancellation of visits. The grandmother is entitled to a hearing on her allegations that the mother interfered with her visitation rights and whether that conduct warrants a modification of the visitation order. Reversed.
Court: New York Appellate Divisions, Judge: Per curiam, Filed On: April 24, 2024, Case #: 02201, Categories: family Law
J. Joyce finds the trial court properly continued a FAPA restraining order against respondent after finding him to be a continuing credible threat to petitioner’s physical safety. “Respondent’s immigration issue continued after the parties separated, and there was a volatile incident between the parties after they separated, the evidence was sufficient.”
Court: Oregon Court of Appeals, Judge: Joyce, Filed On: April 24, 2024, Case #: A180897, Categories: family Law, Restraining Order
J. Navarro-McKelvey finds that the lower court properly granted sole legal and physical custody of the parties' three children to the father. The court was not required to consent to a parenting plan the father had proposed three years earlier, as the parties were no longer in agreement as to the custody arrangements, so the court was required to determine a custody plan that was in the best interests of the children. Affirmed.
Court: Missouri Court Of Appeals, Judge: Navarro-McKelvey, Filed On: April 23, 2024, Case #: ED111647, Categories: family Law
J. Combs finds the district court properly terminated the mother and father's parental rights. The medical examiner testified the 15-year-old daughter reported abuse that had occurred for a number of years, which led to an examination confirming the abuse and the doctor's contacting police. Multiple witnesses with law enforcement and protective services testified to the mother and father's dismissive behavior and unwillingness to take part in a safety plan. The mother lacks standing to challenge the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act and the trial court did not violate her right to equal protection by failing to apply the Act's heightened burden of proof. Affirmed.
Court: Oklahoma Supreme Court, Judge: Combs , Filed On: April 23, 2024, Case #: 120910, Categories: family Law, Native Americans, Guardianship
J. Pirtle finds the county court properly divided the property in this marriage dissolution. Real estate conveyed to the couple by the ex-husband's parents was correctly found to be marital property, and the ex-husband was not entitled to a credit for the value of a vehicle that was paid off with proceeds from his workers compensation settlement. Affirmed in part.
Court: Nebraska Court Of Appeals, Judge: Pirtle , Filed On: April 23, 2024, Case #: A-23-283, Categories: family Law, Property, Workers' Compensation
J. Carlyle finds that the lower court properly granted summary judgment to the appellee in this dispute involving the validity of the parties' partition agreement. The appellant failed to address "each ground upon which the judgment could have been based." Affirmed.
Court: Texas Courts of Appeals, Judge: Carlyle, Filed On: April 23, 2024, Case #: 05-23-00844-CV, Categories: family Law, Contract
J. Goldin finds the lower court properly determined it had jurisdiction over this child custody matter. A mother attempted to register and enforce a foreign decree to modify the terms of a divorce decree. The mother and father had been divorced in Utah, but they established that they and the minor child had lived in Williamson County, Tennessee for more than six months, therefore the Utah court lacked subject matter jurisdiction when it entered a Relocation Order in 2022. The lower court properly refused to register and enforce the order, and the mother is not entitled to relief. Affirmed.
Court: Tennessee Court of Appeals, Judge: Goldin, Filed On: April 22, 2024, Case #: M2023-00813-COA-R3-CV, Categories: family Law, Jurisdiction
J. Powell finds the lower court properly denied the father's motion to terminate the parents' shared parenting plan and name him sole residential guardian of their child. Although the mother ignored portions of the plan, denied the father parenting time on several occasions and often spoke to the child about the father in a derogatory manner, she attended therapy sessions and made genuine attempts to correct her behavior while maintaining a strong bond with the child, which made it in the child's best interest for the plan to remain in place. Affirmed.
Court: Ohio Court Of Appeals, Judge: Powell, Filed On: April 22, 2024, Case #: 2024-Ohio-1519, Categories: Evidence, family Law
J. Miller finds the trial court properly granted the maternal grandmother's motion for permanent custody and determined the father had abandoned the child. Not only had he failed to visit the child while the mother was still alive, the mother had been granted a protection order against the father, while the grandmother also agreed to allow limited visitation, which prevented a full termination of his rights. Affirmed.
Court: Ohio Court Of Appeals, Judge: Miller, Filed On: April 22, 2024, Case #: 2024-Ohio-1535, Categories: Evidence, family Law
J. Miller finds the trial court properly ordered the marital home be sold as part of the couple's divorce. The wife failed to produce evidence she was able to refinance the property to remain there with the children, while there is also no requirement for a court to allow a party to keep the marital home. Meanwhile, although the husband used retirement funds prior to the parties' divorce, he did so to support himself, not as a way to intentionally harm the wife; therefore, the court properly denied the wife's motion to find he committed financial misconduct. Affirmed.
Court: Ohio Court Of Appeals, Judge: Miller, Filed On: April 22, 2024, Case #: 2024-Ohio-1533, Categories: Evidence, family Law
J. Lynch finds the lower court properly denied the wife's motion for a spousal support modification. The court used up-to-date income numbers, while evidence in the record indicated the current support amount allowed the wife and children to leave comfortably, with ample funds for personal expenses. Affirmed in part.
Court: Ohio Court Of Appeals, Judge: Lynch, Filed On: April 22, 2024, Case #: 2024-Ohio-1526, Categories: Evidence, family Law
J. White finds the trial court erred when striking a mother and father’s parenting plan sua ponte, without the proper notice. The mother petitioned the appeals court for writ of prohibition or certiorari quashing the trial court’s order, as neither party had requested the plan to be struck. The court concludes her review should be an interlocutory appeal. Reversed.
Court: Florida Courts Of Appeal, Judge: White, Filed On: April 19, 2024, Case #: 6D23-2856, Categories: Civil Procedure, family Law
J. Moore finds that the lower court improperly awarded the father visitation, "with the right to delegate his visitation rights" to the paternal grandparents. The ruling was improper, as it was "the equivalent of awarding the paternal grandparents visitation rights," without meeting certain requirements under the Grandparent Visitation Act. Accordingly, the case is remanded with instructions. Reversed.
Court: Alabama Court of Civil Appeals, Judge: Moore, Filed On: April 19, 2024, Case #: CL-2023-0201, Categories: Civil Procedure, family Law