Recent Posts in Paternity Category
Posted on Mar 28, 2012 By Jerry Wallentine
In Missouri, there are two primary ways that a non-married parent can seek to establish child support, judicial and administrative. A judicial action is through the circuit court, and an ...
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Posted on Mar 6, 2012 By Jerry Wallentine
Recent Ruling: Termination of parental rights requires proof of statutory grounds by clear, convincing and cogent evidence, and proof of child’s best interest by a preponderance of the evidence. ...
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Posted on Feb 20, 2012 By Jerry Wallentine
Missouri's paternity disestablishment law, enacted in August 2009, allowed men who have been declared the father of a child by a court or the Division of Family Services to set aside (overturn) ...
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Posted on Feb 10, 2012 By Jerry Wallentine
Trial judge is prohibited from ordering ex-husband to submit to genetic testing where previous divorce judgment found that ex-husband was not the father of child, where child was represented by a ...
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