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Adult Adoptions: Everything you Wanted to Know
Adult Adoptions: Everything you Wanted to Know

An adult adoption is an adoption of a child over the age of 18 years old. Why would you do an adult adoption? For the person being adopted it is usually for inheritance rights and to recognize the person in their life who may have acted as their parent but who hasn’t been ...

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  • Adult Adoptions: Everything you Wanted to Know

    An adult adoption is an adoption of a child over the age of 18 years old. Why would you do an adult adoption? For the person being adopted it is usually for inheritance rights and to recognize the ...

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  • What Does Having Your Pleadings Stricken Mean?

    To have your pleadings stricken means that your complaint, petition, or lawsuit will be dismissed. This is a common order entered in family court to obtain compliance by one or both parties to move ...

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  • The Anger Associated with Divorce

    I don’t think that I’ve truly understood the anger that some of my divorce clients feel until COVID. With COVID we have lost a lot. Many of us have family, friends, co-workers, and people we know who ...

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  • Gender Identity and Name Changes in Missouri

    One of the most basic but necessary issues that we can help transgendered clients with is a name and gender change. You want to be referred to by the proper name and you also want legal recognition of ...

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  • The Financial Reckoning that Comes with Divorce

    Not very many of my clients come out of their divorce better off financially than when they went into it. The ones that do were being financially abused by their spouses and were already paying all ...

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  • Sometimes Judges Just Get It Wrong

    Sometimes judges just get it wrong. I get easily frustrated by my clients’ common misperception that every judge will always make the perfect decision. You all think absolute fairness will be found in ...

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