Kansas Child Support Law
<H2> <center> State of Kansas v. Cody S. LaCrone </h2> </center>
Wichita, Kansas, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with sexual exploitation of a child and aggravated indecent liberties with a child younger than 16. Cody S. LaCrone, age 32, was accused of sexual exploitation of a child.... More...
$ (11-28-2025 - KS)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Montressa Cunningham </h2> </center>
Topeka, Kansas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud and Wire Fraud and Money Laundering.<br> <br> A jury convicted Defendant Montressa Cunningham (“Cunninghamâ€) of sixteen offenses stemming from a fourteen-month fraudulent scheme. Cunningham and his wife Felicia purchased seven higher-end used cars, financing those purchases<br... More...
$0 (11-19-2025 - KS)<h2> <center> A.S. Vineyard Church of Overland Park d/b/a Vineyard Community Church,Vineyard USA, and Mark Warner </h2> </center>
Olathe, Kansas personal injury lawyers reprsented the Plaintiff on a sexual abuse case.<br> <br> In August 2021, A.S. filed a petition for damages and alleged that she was sexually abused as a child by Robert Bloom, her former youth pastor at Vineyard Church of Overland Park (VCOP). In addition to Bloom, A.S. named VCOP, Vineyard USA (VUSA), and Mark Warner as defendants in her claims of negligen... More...
$0 (06-28-2025 - KS)<h2> <center> In the Matter of the Adoption of Baby Boy S. </h2> </center>
Wichita, Kansas family law lawyers represent man and wife in an adoption case.<br> <br> "1. On or about December 17, 2023[,] Baby Boy [S.] was born in Wichita, Sedgwick [C]ounty[,] Kansas. <br> <br> "2. [R.S.] . . . is the natural mother of Baby Boy [S.]. [R.S.] has filed a consent to allow Baby Boy [S.] to be adopted. <br> <br> "3. In connection with the adoption proceeding, [R.S.] f... More...
$0 (07-03-2025 - KS)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Daniel Kroeker </h2> </center>
Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with recept and possession of child pornography.<br> <br> Defendant decided to peruse Tumblr one night and found himself looking at a six-year-old boy’s genitals. Using the handle “tobeautifullwomen,†he chatted with Kyle Enzminger, whose handle was “kinkyolder53,†on the social media platform.... More...
$0 (07-09-2025 - KS)<h2> <center> State of Kansas v. Jordan Kristopher Yardley </h2> </center>
Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with child abuse.<br> After the district court revoked Jordan Kristopher Yardley's probation, he moved to withdraw his plea. Yardley alleged his mental health impaired his ability to enter his plea; he lacked sufficient time to review the plea agreement; plea counsel had failed to introduce exonerating evidence and had fai... More...
$0 (03-08-2025 - KS)<h2> <center> State of Kansas v. Levi William Kemp </h2> </center>
Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual exploitation of a child.<br> <br> In October 2019, Oath Holdings, Inc.-the parent company of Yahoo-sent a cyber tip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) regarding suspected child-sexual-abuse materials detected in one of its accounts. NCMEC referred the matter to Detective Stephanie ... More...
$0 (03-01-2025 - KS)</center><h1><center> United States of America v. Daniel Paul Prekopa </h1></center>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Kansas City, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with child sexual abuse </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Kansas man sentenced for crimes related to child sexual abuse</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> A Kansas man received a combined sentence of 87 months in prison after ... More...
$0 (02-21-2025 - KS)<h2> <center> State of Kansas v. Dell William Schmidt, Jr. </h2> </center>
Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of meth.<br> <br> Schmidt was charged with possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia. Schmidt entered into a diversion agreement with the State, which was later revoked due to Schmidt's failure to fulfill certain terms of the agreement. <br> <br> * * *<br> Legal issue Was there suffic... More...
$0 (02-20-2025 - KS)<h1><center> STATE OF KANSAS v. PATRICIO SABAS GOMEZ </h1></center>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Topeka, KS criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant with claiming a jury instruction contained an alternative-means error </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> If a defendant claims a jury instruction contained an alternative-means error, the <br> reviewing c... More...
$0 (01-17-2025 - KS)<h1><center> STATE OF KANSAS v. GABRIAELLE AKIN </h1></center>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Topeka, KS criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant with claiming the district court abused its discretion. </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> The facts of this case are well known to the parties and will only be briefly stated. <br> In March 2022, Akin se... More...
$0 (01-17-2025 - KS)<h1><center> STATE OF KANSAS v. OTHON MIGUEL LARA-LOPEZ </h1></center>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Topeka, KS criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant with moving for a new trial </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> In May 2021, Lara-Lopez was charged with aggravated indecent liberties with a <br> child after a 12 year old (referred to here under the pseudonym, ... More...
$0 (01-17-2025 - KS)<h1><center> STATE OF KANSAS v. ROBERT E. MCINTOSH </h1></center>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Topeka, KS criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant with appealing his convictions for disorderly conduct <br> and interference with law enforcement. </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> McIntosh was charged with criminal threat, disorderly conduct, and interf... More...
$0 (01-17-2025 - KS)<h1><center> STATE OF KANSAS v. MARVIN WILLARD POULSON </h1></center>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Topeka, KS criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant with appealing his jury conviction of one count of rape and one count of criminal restraint </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> </h2></b></b> <br> <br> After an incident in July 2019, the State charged Poulson with two counts of rape <br> under K.S.A. 2019 Su... More...
$0 (01-17-2025 - KS)<h1><center> STATE OF KANSAS v. JENNIFER L. DAILY </h1></center>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant with appealing the district court's revocation of the probation and imposition of her underlying sentence </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> On April 26, 2018, Jennifer Daily entered guilty pleas in two separ... More...
$0 (01-10-2025 - KS)<h2> <center> In the Interests of D.M.H. Jr., M.M.H., M.L.H., and D.M.H., Minor Children. </h2> </center>
<h2><br> Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant in a parental rights termination action.<br> </h2> <br> <br> Father has four minor children subject to this action: D.M.H. Jr., M.M.H., M.L.H. and D.M.H. (collectively, the children). The natural mother (Mother) of the children is not a party to this appeal, although she separately appealed from the termination of her paren... More...
$0 (11-27-2024 - KS)<h2> <center> In the Interests of G.I. and R.I., Minor Children </h2> </center>
<h2><br> Kansas City, Kansas family law lawyer represented the Defendant in a parental rights termination action.<br> </h2><br> In June 2022, the Kansas Department for Children and Families (DCF) received a report that a stranger found one-year-old R.I. wandering outside alone. DCF investigated the report and spoke to Mother and J.I. (Father) a few days after the incident. Mother and Father revea... More...
$0 (12-06-2024 - KS)<h2> <center> In the Interests of M.C. and J.M. </h2> </center>
<h2><br> Olathe, Kansas family lawyer represented parents in a termination of parental rights action.<br> <h2><br> The State simultaneously filed separate child in need of care cases in November 2020 for M.C., then barely 2 years old, and J.M., then 10 months old, when Mother stabbed the children's father in their presence. The record indicates Father has chronically<br> <br> 2<br> <br> abused... More...
$0 (12-06-2024 - KS)<h2> <center> In the Interest of A.B. </h2> </center>
<h2><br> Wichita, Kansas family law lawyer represented the father in a termination of parental rights action.<br> </h2><br> <br> A.B. was born in July 2022 and placed in the NICU. A few days later, the State filed a child in need of care petition. The petition alleged that Mother's parental rights to her other seven children and Father's parental rights to his two other children had been recently ... More...
$0 (11-15-2024 - KS)<h1><center>, United States of America v. Timothy Vigil </h1></center>,
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Kansas City, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with receipt of child pornography </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Colorado Recidivist Sex Offender Sentenced to 35 Years in Prison for Crimes Against Children</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> A California man was sentenc... More...
$0 (11-14-2024 - KS)<h1><center> United States of America v. Antonio Laringo Knox </h1></center>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> cty, st criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with receiving child pornography </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> California man sentenced to 240 months for receiving child pornography</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> ... More...
$0 (11-12-2024 - KS)<h2> <center> State of Kansas v. Shawn P. Rosenberg </h2> </center>
Hutchinson, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sex crimes.<br> <br> <br> Here, a jury found that the facts proved that Shawn P. Rosenberg was guilty of several serious sex crimes. In this appeal, we must decide whether legally sufficient evidence was presented to this jury so it could find the accused guilty. We must also decide whether the omission of a certain ... More...
$0 (10-25-2024 - KS)<h2> <center> T.D. and D.D. v. B.R. </h2> </center>
Kansas City, Kansas family law lawyers represented father and grandparents in a grandparent visitation dispute.<br> <br> <br> B.R., the natural father (Father) of the minor child at the heart of this case, H.R., appeals from the district court's written order establishing a grandparent visitation plan. When the child's natural mother passed away, the district court awarded custody to Father rather... More...
$0 (10-25-2024 - KS)<h2> <center> State of Kansas v. Isaiah J. Duckworth </h2> </center>
Lawrence, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aggravated sexual battery.<br> <br> Duckworth entered a no-contest plea to two counts of aggravated sexual battery in violation of K.S.A. 21-5505(b)(1), a severity level 5 person felony, for his conduct with a 16-year-old victim. At the plea hearing, the district court reviewed the plea advisory and plea agreement that... More...
$0 (10-25-2024 - KS)<h2> <center> State of Kansas v. Timothy James Eugene Kittle </h2> </center>
McPherson, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexually molesting a child.<br> <br> Kittle and his wife Jayne have two children-their daughter Emma and her older brother Sam. (The names are pseudonyms we have substituted to protect the children's privacy.) Kittle and Jayne separated without divorcing, and she moved to Massachusetts with the children. Jayne encount... More...
$0 (10-25-2024 - KS)<h2> <center> In the Matter of the Wrongful Conviction of Jason Mashaney </h2> </center>
Wichita, Kansas personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff seeking damages from the State of Kansas as a result of being wrongfully convicted.<br> <br> <br> In 2004, a jury convicted Mashaney of aggravated criminal sodomy and aggravated indecent liberties with a child for his alleged conduct in 2003 with his then-five-year-old daughter, A.A. He was sentenced to 442 months in prison. A Court ... More...
$0 (10-25-2024 - KS)<h2> <center> In the Matter of the Marriage of M.D. and S.D. </h2> </center>
<h2><br> Olathe, Kansas family law lawyers represented husband and wife in a divorce.<br> </h2><br> <br> After eleven years of marriage and four children together, Father and Mother divorced. Six years of contentious and acrimonious litigation over the parties' children, spousal maintenance, and child support followed. At first, the parties agreed to share equal parenting time with their four chil... More...
$0 (10-18-2024 - KS)<h2> <center> Matthew Byrnes, M.C. v. St. Catherine Hospital, et al. </h2> </center>
<h2><br> Kansas City, Kansas civil rights job discrimination lawyers represented the Plaintiff.<br> </h2><br> <br> People get fired from their jobs for many reasons, or, sometimes, for no reason at all. And if the person's an at-will employee, that's just fine, the law says. Just fine, that is, as long as his employer didn't fire him for discriminatory or retaliatory reasons. Plaintiff Dr. Matthe... More...
$0 (09-06-2024 - KS)<h2><center> United States of America v. Bogdana Alexandrovna Mobley </h2></center>
<h2><br> Wichita, Kansas international kidnapping criminal defense lawyer represented the defendant.<br> </h2><br> Bogdana Alexandrovna Mobley has been charged with international parental kidnapping in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1204. She appeals from the district court's order affirming the magistrate judge's pretrial detention order. Exercising jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and 18 U.S.... More...
$0 (12-19-2017 - KS)<h2> <center> In the Interests of H.T. and C.T., Minor Children </h2> </center>
<h2><br> Leavenworth, Kansas family law lawyer represented the father.<br> </h2><br> <br> The natural father (Father) of C.T. and H.T. appeals the district court's decision to terminate his parental rights. Specifically, Father argues the evidence does not support the district court's finding of his unfitness. But viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the State, as we are required t... More...
$0 (09-20-2024 - KS)<h2> <center> State of Kansas v. David Lawrence Smith </h2> </center>
<h2><br> Atchison, Kansas aggravated indecent liberties with a child criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant.<br> </h2><br> David Lawrence Smith was convicted of three counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child. In 2016, Smith filed his first K.S.A. 60-1507 motion. This court affirmed the district court's denial of that motion and declined to review the merits of Smith's suffic... More...
$0 (09-20-2024 - KS)<h2> <center> State of Kansas v. Justin Qualls </h2> </center>
<h2><br> Olathe, Kansas sexual exploitation of a child criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant.<br> </h2><br> <br> Having worked out an agreement with the State, Qualls entered his plea in January 2023 and was sentenced about six weeks later. Qualls admitted to possessing child pornography-a form of sexual exploitation of a child defined in K.S.A. 21-5510(a)(2) as having for sexual or pr... More...
$0 (09-13-2024 - KS)<h2><center> State of Kansas v. Blake Dean Morgan </h2></center>
<h2><br> Manhattan, Kansas possession of meth, marijuana and paraphernalia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant.<br> </h2><br> <br> <br> Riley County Police Officer Paul Terpstra stopped Morgan's car for a traffic violation. During the car stop, Terpstra smelled marijuana in the car, which provided probable cause to search Morgan's car. While searching the car, Terpstra found baggies... More...
$0 (08-20-2024 - KS)<h2><center> State of Kansas v. Lee Lunsford, Jr. </h2></center>
<h2><br> Atchison, Kansas drug trafficking charge criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant.<br> </h2><br> <br> Lunsford was charged with several drug and traffic charges. After plea negotiations with the State, Lunsford pled guilty to one count of possession of methamphetamine, a severity level 5 drug felony. In exchange, the State dismissed all remaining charges. The parties told the cou... More...
$0 (09-06-2024 - KS)<h2><center> In the Matter of the Marriage of L.S. and D.J. </h2></center>
<h2><br> Leavenworth, Kansas divorce lawyers represented the husband and wife in a marriage dissolution case.<br> </h2><br> <br> L.S. and D.J. were married in 2005 and shared a 12-year marriage which gifted them with two children. In late 2017, L.S. filed for divorce. Her petition included a domestic relations affidavit (DRA), minus any child support adjustments, and she did not attach a child sup... More...
$0 (05-31-2024 - KS)<h2> <center> In the Matter of the Marriage of S.P, and R.P. </h2> </center>
<h2><br> Dodge City, Kansas family law lawyers represented the plaintiff and defendant in a divorce.<br> </h2><br> <br> Modern divorce courts spring from the old courts of equity where the judges were guided by one principle: try to do what is right and fair under the circumstances. Modern divorce courts, awarding custody and dividing debts and property between two sparring marriage partners, stil... More...
$0 (08-22-2024 - KS)<h2><center> Tiffany Espinosa v. Todd W. Allen, et al. </h2></center
<h2><br> Wichita, Kansas civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiff.<br> </h2><br> <br> "Civil rights violations by government officials can occur in many situations, but police misconduct may be the most familiar. Concerns over excessive force by police have mounted in recent years. Excessive force violates the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which forbids unreasonable searches and... More...
$0 (08-09-2024 - KS)<h1><center> STATE OF KANSAS v. BLAKE WAYNE FEIKERT </h1></center>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Topeka Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Blake Feikert was charged in July 2022 with criminal threat against a law <br> enforcement officer. He was arrested on July 27, 2022, and was held in jail... More...
$0 (07-12-2024 - KS)<h1><center> STATE OF KANSAS v. CRISTA G. HINOSTROZA </h1></center>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> <br> Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conceal and carry contraband into a correctional facility </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Officers from the Lyon County Sheriff's department and the Emporia Police <br> Department r... More...
$0 (08-03-2024 - KS)<h1><center> STATE OF KANSAS v. CHRISTOPHER D. KEMMERLY </h1></center>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> cty, st criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant the right to self-representation </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> On the evening of February 17, 2019, Justin Gaston got out of a white Cadillac in <br> the parking lot of a motel in Wichita. One of the ... More...
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