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A father’s relocation to Germany is not enough to determine that keeping his son in the states is in the son’s best interest, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, held Monday. Although the appellate court agreed with its lower ...

In a home purchasing profile released last week by the National Association of Realtors confirmation was given to what many residential real estate professionals already suspected – first-time buyers have been driving the market. Surveying transactions from mid-2003 to mid-2004, ...

Even though a father seeking custody of his son has a significant connection with the state of Missouri, determining child custody in this state would not be in the son’s best interest, ruled the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District. ...

The American Bar Association (ABA) Legal Technology Resource Center has released the results of its most recent survey on lawyers’ use of technology. During the fall of 2003, the center mailed questionnaires to a random selection of more than 13,000 ...

Passage of the American Jobs Creation Act (HR4530) last month carried with it nearly 200 provisions, many of which plug holes in the U.S. Tax Code with little notice by the general public. One such provision significantly changes the exclusion ...

By Jane Pribek Special to The Daily Recordes on the use of experts. The first article appeared in the November 5 edition of The Daily Record. Two weeks ago, Minnesota Lawyer asked a panel of experienced practitioners to tell us ...

The emancipation of a 17-year-old began when she began active military duty, not when she failed to enroll in college five months later, the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District ruled in a reversed and remanded decision. In ...

The Board of Immigration Appeals’ failure to make findings on an illegal alien’s credibility puts his deportation in question, as the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sends the case back for further determinations. Seeking asylum was 27-year-old Mohamed El ...

The American Bar Association has approved civil discovery standards that provide practice tools for litigators. The following excerpt of the Amendments to the Civil Discovery Standards concerns privilege and work-product claims in electronic discovery issues. Attorney-client privilege and attorney work ...

Citing a Kansas Supreme Court case, the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District found the company that prepared a traffic impact study was liable to the descendants of a woman killed in a car accident. In Edgar Krause, ...

Punitive damages are awarded only infrequently. While they often provide a specter hanging over defendants, they are rarely granted to plaintiffs. On the rare occasions when exemplary damages are granted, they are frequently subject to appellate review. The U.S. Supreme ...