Paternity Law
 
In The Interest of O.L.R.M.

After the infant child, OLRM, was adopted, appellant, Brandon O., filed a petition to adjudicate parentage. Appellee, Adoption Advocates, Inc., filed a plea to the jurisdiction and request for the trial court to dismiss Brandon’s suit on the grounds that he lacked standing. The trial court granted appellee’s motion and dismissed the case with prejudice. This appeal by Brandon ensued. We affirm... More...   $0 (06-04-2014 - TX)

Department of Human Services v. Lafe C. Coldware and Erica Ann Butler

1 Custodian/Appellant Erica Ann Butler1 appeals the decision of the trial court ordering Defendant/Appellee Lafe Coldwater to pay $400 per month in child support, denying her request for child support arrearages, and awarding legal custody of C.M.B., the minor child, to Defendant/Appellee.2 Custodian/Appellant Erica Ann Butler ("Mother") is the natural mother of C.M.B., a minor child born out-of-... More...   $0 (05-16-2014 - OK)

Jason P. v. Danielle S.

Family Code1 section 7613, subdivision (b) (hereafter, section 7613(b)) currently provides: “The donor of semen provided to a licensed physician and surgeon or to a licensed sperm bank for use in assisted reproduction of a woman other than the donor’s spouse is treated in law as if he were not the natural parent of a child thereby conceived, unless otherwise agreed to in a writing signed by th... More...   $0 (05-14-2014 - CA)

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... More...
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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... More...
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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... More...   $0 (04-09-2014 - FL)

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... More...
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R.P. v. K.S.W.

¶1 R.P., an alleged biological father, appeals from the district
court’s dismissal of his petition to establish paternity under the
R.P. v. K.S.W. and D.R.W.
2. Unless otherwise specifically noted, all citations to the Utah Code
are to the 2012 edition of the Utah Code Annotated.
20120559-CA 2 2014 UT App 38
Utah Uniform Parentage Act (the UUPA). See Utah Code Ann.
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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 ... More...   $0 (02-14-2014 - OK)

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... More...
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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... More...   $0 (02-13-2014 - CA)

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... More...
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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... More...
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Christopher Carlton v. Shalanda Brown and The Adoption Center of Choice, Inc.

¶1 In this case, Christopher Carlton asks us to once again
consider both the constitutionality of the Utah Adoption Act (Act)
as well as the extent of the rights it affords to putative fathers who
wish to contest adoptions in Utah. Mr. Carlton argues first that
the Act is unconstitutional, both facially and as applied to him,
and second, that the district court erred when, bas... More...
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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... More...   $0 (02-05-2014 - IA)

ANDREW R. BRIGGEMAN, Plaintiff/Appellee, v. CANDACE L. HARGROVE, Defendant/Appellant.

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 t... More...   $0 (02-04-2014 - OK)

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... More...
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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... More...
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In the Interest of the Children of Sara Knigh and David A. Lincoln, Jr.

Wewok, Oklahoma family law lawyers represented the parties in a divorce action involving child support.

¶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... More...
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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... More...   $0 (01-03-2014 - OK)

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... More...
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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’... More...   $0 (12-18-2013 - ID)

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... More...   $0 (12-10-2013 - WY)

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... More...   $0 (12-04-2013 - FL)

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... More...
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