OUR PUBLISHED APPELLATE DECISIONS

We’ve handled over 100 appeals in state and federal courts, involving issues in all areas of family law addressing issues important not only for our individual clients, but that also impact people throughout the state. We frequently assist other attorneys by handling appeals pending in the Kansas Appellate Courts and accept referrals for our focused handling as designed appellate counsel. Other attorneys throughout the state look to us for up-to-date information on family law appeals and evolving law.

We also regularly digest new Kansas Family Law Appellate cases for our use in keeping others lawyers and the public up-to-date on new family law trends. For information on our digests of published and unpublished Kansas Appeals Court decisions, see “Resources.”

A few of the published appellate cases we’ve handled, including the issues addressed by those appeals, include:

Marriage of Hall, 43 Kan.App.2d 392 (2010) (child support – court power to order “cooperation” with former spouse to obtain life insurance). (Review Granted by Kansas Supreme Court on 2011.Apr.11)

Marriage of Ehinger, 34 Kan.App.2d 583 (2005) (spousal support – statutory power to modify spousal support)

Magstadtova v Magstadt, 31 Kan.App.2d 1091 (2003) (Hague Abduction Convention – assessment of attorneys fees and expenses under Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction of 25 October 1980)

Graham v. Cirrocco, 31 Kan.App.2d 563 (2003) (employment agreements – standards for assessment of physician non-competition agreements and geographic limitations)

State ex rel. Kansas Department of SRS v. Strotkamp, 30 Kan.App.2d – (2002) (grandparent visitation – burden of proof; ‘substantial relationship’ requirement; upholding grandparent visitation)

Skillett v. Sierra, 30 Kan.App.2d 1041 (2002) (child support – application of ‘financial considerations’ adjustment; using child support guidelines to determine retroactive child support in parentage cases)

DeGraeve v. Holm, 30 Kan.App.2d 865 (2002) (grandparent visitation – burden of proof; attorneys fees assessment; upholding grandparent visitation)

Marriage of Jennings, 30 Kan.App.2d 860 (2002) (child custody – binding effect of parenting plan agreement when there is a later dispute)

Marriage of Kopac, 30 Kan.App.2d 735 (2002) (spousal support – considerations in termination on basis of “cohabitation”)

Trolinger v. Trolinger, 30 Kan.App.2d 192 (2001) (protection from abuse – standards for issuing orders involving adults and related children)

Marriage of Ronen, 29 Kan.App.2d 443 (2001) (child support – defining expenses included in basic child support amount and responsibility for extracurricular expenses)

Johnson v. Stephenson, 28 Kan.App.2d 275 (2000) (child custody – binding effect of parenting plan agreement when there is a later dispute)

Marriage of Gordon-Hanks, 27 Kan.App.2d 987 (2000) (case management – domestic relations case management standards; hearing and evidentiary requirements to support orders)

Sokol v. Kansas Department of SRS, 267 Kan. 740 (1999) (child abuse – administrative standards for determining substantiation of allegations of child abuse)

Marriage of Scott, 263 Kan. 638 (1998) (child support – imputing income to residential parent; ‘reasonable’ child care expenses)

Barnett v. Barnett, 24 Kan. App. 2d 319 (1997) (protection from abuse – standards for determining ‘abuse’ in cases involving children)

Marriage of Welliver, 254 Kan. 801 (1994) (service of process – requirements and considerations in granting default judgments in divorce cases)

Santaniello v. Santaniello, 18 Kan. App. 2d 112 (1992) (grandparent visitation – burden of proof requirements; deference to parental decisions)

Summers v. Montgomery Elevator, 243 Kan. 639 (1988)(attorneys fees  – standards for assessment of fees and costs; determining what is a ‘frivolous action’)

Gould v. Taco Bell, comparative fault – comparison of intentional fault with negligence in premises liability case)

Teepak v. Learned, 237 Kan. 320 (1985) (comparative fault – comparative negligence and indemnity between tortfeasors)