The Court of Appeals dismisses a wife’s appeal of a trial court award under a prenuptial agreement, as she substituted the husband’s estate and not his personal representative as the party in interest when husband died after the trial court ...

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A wife who was unhappy with a lump sum settlement under a premarital agreement lost her appeal because she substituted her husband’s estate, not his personal representative, as the party in interest when the husband died after the divorce. Under ...

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A husband who did not timely perfect an appeal of a final divorce decree cannot now challenge the court’s equitable distribution or appointment of a special commissioner to sell marital property, and the Court of Appeals affirms the trial court ...

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A mother and father cannot overturn termination of their parental rights to their two children due to their histories of drug abuse, domestic violence and neglect and abuse leading to termination of parental rights to these two children’s five siblings; ...

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The Court of Appeals upholds termination of parental rights for a mother who refused to protect her seven-year-old daughter from continued sexual abuse by the mother’s boyfriend and who fled to Texas with her daughters and failed to give her ...

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A husband who says wife failed to disclose certain debts cannot overturn their post-nuptial agreement, incorporated into their final divorce decree in 2008; the Court of Appeals upholds the decision sustaining wife’s plea in bar to the husband’s 2012 complaint ...

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The Court of Appeals summarily affirms a trial court order denying appellant’s motions and quashing her subpoenas based on Rule 1:1; since the circuit court entered the final divorce decree 13 years earlier, the court did not err in denying ...

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The Court of Appeals affirms termination of a mother’s parental rights to four of her children because the mother was unable over a period of nearly three years to remedy her housing and employment situations and improve her ability to ...

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Testimony from a social worker and from the guardian ad litem, as an officer of the court, indicated mother’s two children who were over age 14 consented to termination of the mother’s parental rights, and the Court of Appeals upholds ...

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Siblings who traded accusations over use of their mother’s money have spent thousands on legal fees, and the legal wrangling is still not over. A son is fighting with two sisters, both sides claiming the other breached duties under a ...

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