The plaintiff, Turi Rostad, and the
defendant, Leon Hirsch, both appealed to the Appellate
Court from the judgment of the trial court in the plaintiff’s
paternity action against the defendant seeking an
order of support and maintenance for her minor son,
attorney’s fees, statutory interest, past due child support
and past due ‘‘special child support.’’ In his ap... More...   $0 (06-17-2015 - OK)

This is an appeal from an order terminating the parent-child relationship between D.V. and his mother. The relationship between the little boy and his father was also terminated, but the father has not appealed. Because of recurrent family violence between the parents, we will refer to Father’s behavior where necessary to explain the factual circumstances.1
Mother brings seven issues for rev... More...   $0 (06-03-2015 - TX)

In December of 2011, Jorge Garcia filed a petition for bill of review in the underlying cause seeking to set aside an order entered in February of 1996 which established Garcia’s paternity of J.A.E. The Office of the Attorney General filed a no-evidence motion for summary judgment asserting no evidence existed to support each element of Garcia’s bill of review claim. The trial court granted th... More...   $0 (06-03-2015 - TX)

Appellant, the Office of the Attorney General of Texas, appeals from the trial court’s judgment that appellee, Jose Guadalupe Duran, pay nothing in back child support. By one issue, appellant contends that “[t]he trial court abused its discretion when it ordered that [appellee,] be released from a child support arrearage judgment in contravention of
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Texas Family Code section 161.005.... More...   $0 (05-28-2015 - TX)

Andrew L. (Andrew) is the biological father of Emilio G. who was born in July 2013. Katherine O. (Katherine) is Emilio’s biological mother. Andrew and Katherine never married. Katherine became pregnant with Emilio a few months after she and Andrew began dating in August 2012. Their relationship was not smooth. By April 2013, Andrew and Katherine had broken up, with Andrew confirming the break up... More...   $0 (05-22-2015 - CA)

Appellants T.M. (Father) and J.R. (Mother) appeal from the trial court’s order
terminating their parental rights to their minor child, J.M.1 Father and Mother each contend that the
evidence is factually insufficient to support the termination of their parental rights. Mother also
contends that the trial court wrongfully admitted evidence regarding advertisements for “escort�
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This appeal is from a final judgment in a paternity suit. In two issues, the child’s mother, Griselda Ortiz, argues the trial court abused its discretion by not ordering retroactive child support and by ordering current child support in the amount of $1500.00 per month. We affirm.
BACKGROUND
In 1996, Ortiz met Carlos Guerrero. The two had a romantic relationship. At the time, Ortiz and G... More...   $0 (05-20-2015 - TX)

Appellant, the mother, challenges the trial court’s final judgment of paternity and custody order regarding her two children. She alleges that the trial court made three errors that merit discussion: (1) the trial court erred in granting majority time-sharing of the older child to appellee, a non-relative; (2) the trial court erred in
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calculating child support; and (3) the trial court ... More...   $0 (05-15-2015 - FL)

Appellant, K.G.,1 challenges the trial court’s order terminating her parental rights to her son, D.N., Jr.2 By a sole issue, she maintains the evidence is insufficient to support termination on the ground that she would be incarcerated for not less than two years from the date the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services filed its Original Petition for Protection of a Child, for Conser... More...   $0 (05-13-2015 - TX)

Amine Britel died intestate in 2011. Appellant Jackie Stennett, the mother of A.S., a child born out of wedlock, petitioned to administer Amine’s estate and for A.S. to be declared Amine’s heir under Probate Code section 6453, subdivision (b)(2)
(section 6453(b)(2)).1 Under section 6453(b)(2), a nonmarital child may establish that he or she is the natural child of an intestate decedent by ... More...   $0 (04-23-2015 - CA)

Defendants, Brian Kennedy and, as to Skyline Outdoor Media LLC only, David Seyde, appeal from a May 13, 2014 order in favor of plaintiff, Drake Kennedy.1 The May 13, 2014 order denied defendants’ motion to stay dissolution of a number of corporations and limited liability companies and appoint appraisers to permit a buyout to occur. (Corp. Code,2 §§ 2000, 17707.03.) Defendants contend the tria... More...   $0 (04-20-2015 - CA)

A jury found that a father’s parental rights to his child should be terminated
based on one or more of the Family Code’s statutory grounds and that termination
was in the child’s best interest. In eight issues, the father contends that there was
no evidence, or alternatively, insufficient evidence to support the trial court’s
judgment on the jury’s findings. We affirm.More...   $0 (04-16-2015 - TX)

Andrew L. (Andrew) is the biological father of Emilio G. who was born in July 2013. Katherine O. (Katherine) is Emilio’s biological mother. Andrew and Katherine never married. Katherine became pregnant with Emilio a few months after she and Andrew began dating in August 2012. Their relationship was not smooth. By April 2013, Andrew and Katherine had broken up, with Andrew confirming the break up... More...   $0 (04-10-2015 - CA)

Olive N. Anderson, a Filipino national, moved to Nebraska and married Wade B. Anderson after meeting him through an online dating service. Their marriage soured, and the court entered a dissolution decree giving Wade custody of their only child. Wade argues that the court ordered Olive to pay child support that is too low and ordered him to pay alimony that is too high. Wade further contends that ... More...   $0 (04-03-2015 - NE)

In two issues, appellant, Teisa I. Tupou-Pati, challenges the trial court’s dismissal
of her petition seeking managing conservatorship of her grandchildren, Y.H.T., A.M.T.,
and R.S.T. Because we agree that appellant lacked standing to file suit in this matter,
and because we conclude that the trial court did not abuse its discretion by denying
appellant’s motions for new trial ... More...   $0 (03-05-2015 - TX)

¶1 In this paternity action, Respondent/Appellant, Vernon McDowell, appeals from the trial court's decree of paternity and its order denying his motion to vacate the decree of paternity. Appellant admitted to the trial court that he is the putative father of the minor child, R.D.P. Based on that admission, we cannot find the trial court exceeded its jurisdiction in decreeing Appellant's paternity... More...   $0 (03-02-2015 - OK)

We affirm the final judgment in this paternity and support action. We
do not address the merits of the issues raised by appellant, as they either
were not preserved by objections in the trial court on the grounds raised
on appeal, or they lack merit. As to the father’s claim that this court lacks
jurisdiction to consider the orders entered prior to the final judgment
designat... More...   $0 (02-11-2015 - FL)

In this action to establish paternity, a parenting plan and child support,
Petitioner Monica Medina seeks relief from two non-final discovery orders, one
requiring her, as pertinent here, to produce settlement agreements entered into
between non-parties to this action and clients of the law firm which employs her
(none of whom or which are parties to this action), the other purport... More...   $0 (02-11-2015 - FL)

¶1 This case, like Nevares v. M.L.S., 2015 UT 34, presents ques-tions concerning the applicability and constitutionality of Utah Code section 78B-6-111. That provision forbids a biological father
1 Associate Chief Justice Nehring acted on this case prior to his retirement.
IN RE ADOPTION OF J.M.S.
Opinion of the Court
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from challenging an adoption when his child was conceived... More...   $0 (02-06-2015 - UT)

In this family law proceeding, T.A. (Mother) appeals from a judgment finding that R.M. (RM) is the presumed father of Mother's biological daughter (Child). Mother conceived Child through artificial insemination procedures, and RM is not the biological father. The trial court declared RM to be Child's presumed father by applying the

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parentage presumption set forth in Family Code... More...   $0 (01-27-2015 - CA)

The Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (UCCJEA),
adopted by California as Family Code section 3400 et seq., prescribes when a state court
has jurisdiction to make an initial custody determination. Family Code section 3402,
subdivision (g) provides with respect to a child less than six months of age that
jurisdiction rests in the state in which the child “lived... More...   $0 (01-05-2015 - CA)

Jeanna Cheney appeals the Court of Appeals' decision affirming the district court's award of residential custody of her daughter, Justine Poore, to Justine's father, Zachary Poore. Like the Court of Appeals, we conclude that the district court erred in applying K.S.A. 2013 Supp. 23-3207(b) (dividing the residency of full siblings
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between their parents) to the residential custody determin... More...   $0 (12-19-2014 - KS)

This is an appeal by Gracia Gimeno from a downward modification of
Naltan Rivera’s child support obligation in a post-paternity modification
proceeding, based upon the fact that Rivera has fathered three more children by
another woman after having fathered a child with Gimeno. It is settled law that a
party moving for a downward modification of child support has the burden of
... More...   $0 (12-17-2014 - FL)

A biological father who does not qualify as a presumed father under Family Code section 76111 generally does not have statutory standing to block the adoption of his child unless he proves that it is in the child's best interests that the adoption not proceed. (Adoption of Kelsey S. (1992) 1 Cal.4th 816 (Kelsey S.); Adoption of Michael H. (1995) 10 Cal.4th 1043, 1052 (Michael H.).) Under Kelsey S.... More...   $0 (12-15-2014 - CA)

¶1 The only issue presented for this Court's consideration is whether the trial court erred in granting the defendant's motion to dismiss for want of jurisdiction based on the plaintiff's lack of standing. Questions within the issue are (1) whether a person has standing to seek a best-interest-of-the-child hearing when the sole biological parent relinquished some of her parental rights to the pers... More...   $0 (11-12-2014 - OK)