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Martine LiFleur v. Nathaniel Webster, Jr.

Martine LiFleur (“LiFleur”) appeals from a 2013 order which 1) denied her emergency motion to terminate an agreed temporary order of custody/parental responsibility; and 2) vested temporary custody and parental responsibility in the minor child’s stepmother. For the reasons that follow, we reverse.

FACTUAL BACKGROUND

LiFleur and Nathaniel Webster, Jr. (“Webster”) had a chil

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Lorena Quiroz v. Rummie Lee Gray, II

Lorena Quiroz and Gary S. Vernier1 appeal the trial court’s judgment establishing that Rummie Lee Gray, II, is the biological father of R.L.G., a child born to Quiroz while she was married to Vernier. In a single issue, Appellants argue the trial court erred because it lacked subject-matter jurisdiction. We affirm.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Gray began dating Quiroz in Octob

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Andrew R. Briggeman v. Candace L. Hargrove

¶1 In this post-paternity, custody modification proceeding, Defendant/Appellant, Candace L. Hargrove (Mother), appeals from the trial court's order dated February 29, 2012, which found the trial court lacked jurisdiction to consider Mother's application for attorneys fees and costs. The trial court held the Oklahoma Supreme Court's order entered in Case No. 109,239 prohibits Mother from bringing

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Estate of James P. Maher, III v. Olga Valerievna Iglikova

Lyudmila Taran, guardian of her son, P.M., a minor and beneficiary of the Estate of James P. Maher, III, appeals the trial court’s denial of her motion for summary judgment, wherein the trial court found that A.M.I., appellee Olga Valerievna Iglikova’s daughter, is a pretermitted child. We reverse because A.M.I. does not qualify as a pretermitted child because she was born before the execution

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William Frank Davis v. Carolina Davis

This appeal arises from a dispute between Frank and Carol Davis over custody of their three children and the proper division of their property. During the divorce proceedings Carol testified that she had taken part in a religious wedding ceremony with Mohammad Iqbal Hozri several years before she married Frank and
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that the marriage to Mohammad was never terminated through divorce. The tr

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Thomas Smith Davis v. Kimberly Joyce Beat

Comes now Plaintiff, Thomas Smith Davis (hereinafter Tom Davis), by md through his attorney of record, Heather M. Cline, and for his cause of action against the Defendants, Kimberly Joyce Beal and Robert Dewayne Hartman (hereinafter Defendant Beal and Defendant Hartman), jointly and severally, alleges and states as follows:

I. The acts complained of herein occurred in Oklahoma and Clevelanc

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Thomas W. Demeester v. Rebecca Demeester

Thomas DeMeester (Husband) appeals from the trial court’s order dissolving his marriage to Rebecca DeMeester (Wife). Husband raises the following issues on appeal:

1. Did the trial court abuse its discretion in dividing the marital estate?

2. Did the trial court abuse its discretion in valuing certain marital assets?

3. Did the trial court abuse its discretion in ordering Hu

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Genevieve-Anne Gaurdreau v. Richard A. Barnes

Richard Barnes ("Father") appeals from the trial court's judgment modifying a prior dissolution judgment and child custody decree. We affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

On March 20, 2007, a Petition for Dissolution was filed. On July 8, 2008, the marriage between Father and Genevieve-Anne Gaudreau ("Mother") (collectively, "Parents") was dissolved, pursuant to a consent judgment ("Dissolution Jud

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The People v. Juan Carlos Rodarte

Juan Carlos Rodarte appeals his conviction of one count of attempted murder (Pen. Code, §§ 664, 187, subd. (a)),1 with a true finding that he inflicted great bodily injury on his victim (§ 12022.7, subd. (b)), one count of shooting from a motor vehicle (former § 12034, subd. (c), now § 26100, subd. (c)),2 with true findings on both counts that defendant personally discharged a firearm causing

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Roberto Ledesma v. Daniela Estrada Gutierrez and Juan Antonio Cisneros

At issue in this case is the paternity of A.C., who is now four years old. A.C.’s biological father, Roberto Ledesma, challenges the district court’s denial of his petition to establish paternity, custody, visitation, and support, and to terminate the rights of A.C.’s legally established father, Juan Cisneros. Ledesma contends the district court misapplied Iowa Code sections 600B.41 and 600B

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Genevieve-Anne Gaudreau v. Richard A. Barnes

Richard Barnes ("Father") appeals from the trial court's judgment modifying a prior dissolution judgment and child custody decree. We affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

On March 20, 2007, a Petition for Dissolution was filed. On July 8, 2008, the marriage between Father and Genevieve-Anne Gaudreau ("Mother") (collectively, "Parents") was dissolved, pursuant to a consent judgment ("Dissolution

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C.G. v. J.R. and J.R.

C.G. appeals a final judgment entered against him in his paternity action. C.G. is the undisputed biological father of H.G.-R. However, H.G.-R.'s biological mother was married to J.R. at the time of H.G.-R.'s birth, thereby establishing J.R. as H.G.-R.'s

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legal father. After C.G. filed a verified complaint to establish paternity, he and the biological mother entered into a paterni

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IN THE INTEREST OF THE CHILDREN OF KNIGHT

¶1 Defendant/Appellant, David Lincoln (Father), seeks review of the trial court's order awarding child support to Plaintiff/Appellee, Sara Knight (Mother), for the support of their minor child. We hold the trial court erred as a matter of law (1) in failing to deduct from Father's self-employment income the ordinary and reasonable expenses necessary to produce the income, and (2) in failing to de

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Christopher Harignordoquy v. Lee Ann Barlow

[¶1] The parties to this appeal were divorced in the District Court for the Ninth Judicial District (Teton County). Appellant Christopher Harignordoquy contends that the district court erred in exercising child custody jurisdiction, in the determination as to whether his children might be entitled to possible dual citizenship as that finding might relate to child custody, in requiring a bond to p

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Jane Doe v. John Doe

This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing a petition filed by the maternal grandmother of a child born out of wedlock in which the grandmother sought to terminate the parental rights of the biological father and to adopt the child. After the magistrate court entered an order granting the petition, the biological father intervened and successfully moved to set aside the order. The grandmother’

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Vladislav v. Sazonov v. Olga Karpova

Upon the Court’s own motion, the mandate issued in this case on December 4, 2013 is recalled. This Court’s opinion dated November 13, 2013 is vacated and this Amended Opinion is issued in its stead.

Vladislav Sazonov, the father, appeals the non-final order denying his motion to dismiss for forum non conveniens. Olga Karpova, the mother, is a citizen of Russia who had a child by the fat

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Richard Williams v. Lauren Lutrario

The father appeals a non-final order denying his second amended motion for contempt and enforcement of a timesharing agreement. The mother cross-appeals the trial court’s determination that the father was entitled to a federal income tax exemption for the minor child. We affirm the order denying the father’s motion for contempt, but reverse the order finding the father entitled to a tax exempt

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Department of Revenue, o/b/o R.S.M. v. B.J.M.

The Department of Revenue, on behalf of R.S.M., appeals the final judgment of paternity and support ordering the father, B.J.M., to pay child support to the mother, R.S.M., for their child, L.W.M. Competent substantial evidence does not

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support the final judgment. Consequently, we reverse and remand for further proceedings.

In November 2010, the Department filed its peti

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In the Matter of JAMIE LELOFF, Petitioner-Respondent, and JUSTIN FONG, Respondent-Appellant.

1 ORTEGA, P. J.
2 Father appeals a judgment establishing custody, parenting time, and child
3 support for the parties' minor child. On appeal, father asserts that the trial court erred in
4 ordering that child support should commence from the date that the parties separated
5 because the petition was filed pursuant to ORS 109.103 and the court, therefore, did not
6 have authori

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Home At Last Adoption Agency, Inc. v. V.M., Father

Home at Last Adoption Agency, Inc., (“the Adoption Agency”) appeals a final judgment dismissing its second amended petition to terminate the parental rights of Appellee, V.M., to his biological daughter. Because the trial court erroneously concluded that our prior opinion in this case precluded it from finding that Appellee had abandoned the child, we reverse.

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The procedural an

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Valdislav Sazonov v. Olga Karpova

Vladislav Sazonov, the father, appeals the non-final order denying his motion to dismiss for forum non conveniens. Olga Karpova, the mother, is a citizen of Russia who had a child by the father in Russia over seventeen years ago. The mother petitioned to establish paternity, and sought an award of prospective and retrospective child support. Because the mother is a plaintiff from another country w

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Marci Frazier v. Kelly Goudschaal

Kelly Goudschaal and Marci Frazier were committed to a long-time, same-sex relationship, during which they jointly decided to have two children via artificial insemination. In conjunction with the birth of each child, the couple executed a coparenting agreement that, among other provisions, addressed the contingency of a separation. A few months after the couple separated, Goudschaal notified Fraz

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Thomas P. Campbell v. Tammie J. Hein

[¶1] Thomas Campbell (Husband) and Tammie Hein (Wife) were divorced in 2008 pursuant to a stipulated Property Settlement, Child Custody, Child Support Agreement. In 2010, Husband petitioned to reopen the Decree of Divorce, alleging that Wife had misrepresented material facts related to the parties’ division of debt. The district court denied Husband’s petition, and Husband appeals. We affirm.

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Jesse Pena v. Sandra Diaz

This is a hard case to decide against the appellant, although there is no doubt in my mind that the law compels affirmance. It is the latest of many cases filed in our state courts in which the biological father seeks to establish his paternity to a child born into a marriage between the child's mother and another man. Indeed, this is the second time Mr. Pena has filed suit in an effort to try to

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Heather Ann Worthington v. Timothy Gail Worthington

Heather Ann Worthington, the Former Wife, challenges the trial court's order amending or modifying the final judgment of dissolution of marriage and the order denying her motion for rehearing. We reverse the portion of the order modifying the timesharing arrangement because it exceeds the scope of the relief requested in the motions that were noticed for and addressed at the hearing below.

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