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As a new wave of homeowners begin approaching retirement age, they are faced with deciding whether their financial obligations and debts should be retired first. At one time, it was considered fiscally sound to owe nothing on a home. Even ...

A trial court erred in enforcing a mechanic’s lien on a couple’s property because it was filed against the wrong party, the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District ruled in an affirmed in part, reversed in part opinion. ...

Third-quarter results for the remodeling market moved one point ahead of the seasonally adjusted second quarter of2004. Continued low interest rates and stable consumer confidence are attributed as key elements, according to the National Association of Home Builders. “This has ...

Judge Daugherty nears end of term as 16th Circuit PJ; Judge J.D. Williamson prepares to takeover

Missourians seeking to purchase homes for the first time will have greater access to low interest loans as the result of an allocation to the Missouri Housing Development Commission announced today. Department of Economic Development Director Kelvin Simmons advised the ...

The Missouri Press-Bar Com- mission has unanimously elected Kansas City attorney John S. Black to a one-year term as president of the commission. Black, who served as president of The Missouri Bar in 1992-1993, is a partner with the firm ...

Courts cannot force medication on the delusional when the treatment has little probability of success, ruled the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri ordered the man, Hessam Ghane, be involuntarily ...

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that although it can review a trial judge’s authority to remand a case to state court, it will not review the lower court’s reasoning. Between 1998 and 2001, WorldCom Inc. issued debt ...

There is only one first valid step towards annexing an area of land, the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District ruled in an affirmed decision. In City of St. Joseph, Missouri, Appellant v. Village of Country Club, Missouri, ...

Jeanie Botkin presents the scholarship to Eric Hobbs at LAKC’s Annual Holiday Dinner The Lawyer’s Association of Kansas City’s Young Lawyer’s Section found several ways to help others this holiday season. At the LAKC’s 2004 Annual Holiday Dinner, held on ...

At a news conference last week, American Bar Association President Robert J. Grey Jr. presented Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor with the ABA American Jury Project’s “Principles for Juries and Jury Trials,” the result of six months of intensive ...