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Search Warrant Requirement

Search Warrants Law enforcement can often conduct searches without a search warrant because there are exceptions to the Fourth Amendment’s search warrant requirement, like holes in swiss cheese.  Some of…

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Divorce: Third-Party Child Custody

Third-Party Child Custody in Missouri The Missouri Supreme Court recently issued an opinion in Bowers v. Bowers, No. SC965435, upholding a trial's court decision to award child custody to a…

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Adoption: Abandonment Includes Lack of Meaningful Contact

The Supreme Court's Decision The Missouri Supreme Court issued an opinion this week affirming a decision by a circuit court terminating a father's parental rights and granting a step-parent adoption.…

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Child Custody Law Change in Missouri

Earlier this month, Governor Nixon signed House Bill 1550 into law which provides for changes that will affect child custody related to divorce, legal separation, paternity and Judgments. This law…

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Adoption and Abandonment

I recently spoke at a continuing legal education seminar sponsored by the Missouri Bar on the subject of adoptions. Adoptions are yet another mechanism of establishing custody for children, even though…

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Divorce & Child Custody Settlement: Saving Money

Clients have asked over the years what they can do to save money in their divorce or child custody cases. I always have suggestions. I am sharing my most common…

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