¶1 Annette Bryan (Wife) appeals from an order of the trial court denying her request to delay granting her divorce from Victor Dewayne Bryan (Husband). The issue on appeal is whether the trial court abused its discretion or ruled against the clear weight of the evidence in denying Wife's request to delay ruling on the divorce until May 6, 2009, so that she could become eligible for "full medical,... More...   $0 (10-01-2009 - OK)

Appellant Kimme Putman sued respondents for negligently failing

to diagnose her ovarian cancer. The trial judge dismissed her lawsuit because she

failed to file a certificate of merit from a medical expert, as required for medical

malpractice lawsuits under RCW 7.70.150. Putman challenges the constitutionality of

the certificate of merit requirement on a number o... More...   $0 (09-17-2009 - WA)

Karen Victoria Dahlberg Wynn (appellant) filed a petition in the superior court seeking an order correcting her original birth certificate to state the actual names of her birth parents rather than the fictitious names her mother used when the original certificate was prepared. Appellant’s situation is unusual because her original birth certificate is sealed and her legally operative birth certi... More...   $0 (08-04-2009 - CA)

Plaintiff Joe D. Turner appeals an award of attorney fees to defendants Asset Allocation Advisors, Inc. (the company), Gregory E. Schultz, and Bruce D. Grenke (collectively defendants) made after Turner unsuccessfully sought declaratory and injunctive relief to forestall the arbitration of the dispute between the parties. He contends that it is too early to determine a prevailing party, and that a... More...   $0 (07-13-2009 - CA)

¶1 In October 2000, Petitioner, Kathleen Redmond [Mother], and Respondent, Brett Cauthen [Father], were married. Mother filed for divorce in August 2006. At the time of trial their daughter was 3 years old and their son was two years old. The trial court awarded Mother temporary sole custody of Children, and awarded Father modified standard visitation. During the temporary order hearing, the tria... More...   $0 (05-07-2009 - OK)

Plaintiffs, Amy and Jeff Clark, appeal the dismissal of their 16-count third-amended complaint alleging negligence against defendants, Children's Memorial Hospital and Doctor Barbara K. Burton, in connection with their son's birth with Angelman Syndrome The primary issue on appeal is whether plaintiffs may recover in a so-called "wrongful birth" action for their damages for the extraordinary costs... More...   $0 (04-27-2009 - IL)

On appeal in this dissolution of marriage case, husband challenges the trial court's property distribution and its award of spousal support to wife. In particular, he asserts that the trial court erred in allocating to him the financial responsibility for the majority of the credit card debt incurred by the parties, in awarding wife the marital residence, in treating husband's half interest in th... More...   $0 (01-28-2009 - OR)

Claude Rabbath (Appellant), the former husband, appeals several findings of fact and conclusions of law made by the circuit court in a final judgment dissolving Appellant’s 22-year marriage to Hala M. Farid (Appellee), the former wife. Appellant contends that the trial court abused its discretion in 1) finding that Appellant concealed income and assets and dissipated marital assets; 2) ordering ... More...   $0 (01-21-2009 - FL)

Plaintiff, Margaret R. Nettleton, filed a complaint against defendants, William J. Stogsdill, Jr. (Stogsdill), and The Law Offices of William J. Stogsdill, Jr. (firm), alleging that they committed malpractice during their representation of her in her dissolution proceeding. Plaintiff appeals the trial court's order granting defendants summary judgment on plaintiff's complaint and the trial court's... More...   $0 (12-29-2008 - IL)

¶1 Petitioner/Appellant Randall James Ritchie (Husband) appeals the provisions of the Domestic Relations Order (QDRO) entered pursuant to the Agreed Journal Entry Decree of Dissolution of Marriage ("Consent Decree") ending Husband's marriage to Respondent/Appellee Lisa Ann Ritchie (Wife). Husband asserts the QDRO's formula for dividing his military retirement benefits differs from the parties' ag... More...   $0 (12-05-2008 - OK)

Plaintiff Ymelda T. Patrick appeals from a judgment of dismissal entered after the court sustained defendant Alacer Corporation’s (Alacer) demurrer to her third amended complaint without leave to amend. Plaintiff asserted shareholder derivative and direct causes of action against Alacer and three individuals who sit on its board of directors and serve as trustees of the trust that is its sole re... More...   $0 (10-23-2008 - CA)

This is the latest in a series of lawsuits pursued by the plaintiff, David M. Somers, to collect an amount allegedly owed by the defendant, John M. Chan. In this appeal, we must decide whether the trial court correctly determined that the defendant was not liable for legal fees of $75,000 allegedly incurred by Lynn Chan, the defendant’s former wife, and claimed by the plaintiff, her former attor... More...   $0 (09-30-2008 - CT)

¶1 The claimant, Bonnie Brooks (Claimant), appeals a decision of the Three Judge Panel of the Workers' Compensation Court in favor of Osage Drilling Company/Seismic Drilling (Employer) and its insurer, American Home Assurance, finding that she was not a surviving spouse of Roy Sanders, deceased.1

BACKGROUND

¶2 The parties have not materially disputed the facts pertinent to this... More...   $0 (07-10-2008 - OK)

Sheldon Engel, a practicing attorney, appeals from a circuit court order granting the motion of his former client Marsha Loyfman to vacate an agreed settlement order in his suit to enforce an attorney retainer agreement. In addition to granting Loyfman's motion, the court sua sponte dismissed Engel's suit for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. The primary issue on appeal is whether the circu... More...   $0 (06-06-2008 - IL)

In Lockyer v. City and County of San Francisco (2004) 33 Cal.4th 1055 (Lockyer), this court concluded that public officials of the City and County of San Francisco acted unlawfully by issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in the absence of a judicial determination that the California statutes limiting marriage to a union between a man and a woman are unconstitutional. Our decision in ... More...   $0 (05-16-2008 - CA)

Father and Mother were married on February 20, 2001, and they had one child during the marriage, Olivia L. Collett ("Daughter"), who was born... More...   $0 (01-29-2008 - MO)

Alice Henkel is a single mother raising a minor child, E.H., who was born on May 27, 2003. Cory Flynn is the father of E.H. Alice and Cory were never married and never lived together. Alice and E.H. live with E.H.'s maternal grandparents. Cindy Flynn is Cory's mother and the paternal grandmother of E.H. Cindy filed a petition in the circuit court of Lee County for grandparent visitation... More...   $0 (12-11-2007 - IL)

This is a dispute about whether petitioner is entitled to "surviving spouse" benefits after the death of a disability and retirement fund member from whom she was divorced two years earlier. The trial court held that she is not entitled to the benefits, because the fund specifically defines a "surviving spouse" as one to whom a member was married for at least 12 months before the member's death... More...   $0 (09-26-2007 - OR)

In this case we are asked to revisit our decision in In re M.M.D., 213 Ill. 2d 105 (2004), and again address whether Wickham v. Byrne, 199 Ill. 2d 309 (2002), which held unconstitutional Illinois' grandparent visitation statute, invalidated a preexisting agreed order for grandparent visitation. However, because the minor who was the subject of the agreed visitation order at issue here has ... More...   $0 (09-20-2007 - IL)

This appeal requires us to consider the extent to which a client is obligated to compensate her former attorney for professional services rendered, when that attorney was disbarred prior to the completion of the representation. The plaintiff, David M. Somers and Associates, P.C.,1 a law firm, appeals2 from the trial court's judgment in favor of the defendant, Lori C. Busch, a former cl... More...   $0 (08-07-2007 - CT)

Plaintiff brought suit against the estate of his attorney for legal malpractice. Plaintiff claimed his attorney had mishandled his dissolution of marriage causing loss of property and additional legal fees. Plaintiff claimed his attorney failed to respond to discovery and mishandled marital and non-marital property and their values. Additionally Plaintiff claimed that Defendant failed to lis... More...   $99114 (08-07-2007 - MO)

�1 Petitioner, Donald G. Woodard, [Husband] and Respondent, Beverly R. Woodard, [Wife] were married in September 1984. Since 1977, Husband had been a firefighter, first with the Edmond Fire Department, and then in 1980, with the Oklahoma City Fire Department. In February 1997, Husband had worked as a firefighter for twenty years. At that time, he was eligible for retirement and a month... More...   $0 (06-22-2007 - OK)

whether the trial court erred in denying Jason's motion for change of venue from the judge. Finding that the trial court should have granted the change of judge, we reverse the judgment of the trial court and remand ... More...   $0 (04-05-2007 - IN)

Appellant Ann Marie Agostino ("Wife") appeals from the St. Joseph Circuit Court's judgment ordering an unequal division of marital property in favor of her former husband, Frank James Agostino ("Husband") and denying her request for attorney's fees. Concluding that the trial court's rationale for an unequal division of property does not rebut the statutory presumption that an equal division o... More...   $0 (04-04-2007 - IN)

�2 While the present action is one for declaratory judgment, the operative facts here arise from a divo... More...   $0 (02-01-2007 - OK)