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The Missouri Supreme Court will weigh the concept of one judge for one family against a parent's right to a change of judge in termination of parental rights cases in an appeal transferred Tuesday by the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District.
I'm hopeful that the Supreme Court will agree that parents' rights should be paramount in these cases, said St. Louis attorney Michele Hammond, who represented the father in this case. Obviously, we're wanting to protect children in termination of parental rights cases, no doubt, but the trend in the court seems to be leaning more and more toward we need to protect parents from an overly zealous Division of Family Services or an overly zealous deputy juvenile officer, whatever the case may be.See the full content of this document
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Change of Judge Issue Sent to Missouri Supreme Court
The bottom line is it comes down to: Are parents going to be afforded the same rights that all litigants are afforded in cases being able to take that change of judge? she said.
Judge Thomas J. Frawley of the St. Louis City Family Court presided over the protective custody case of S.M.H., the daughter of T.H. Jr., for more than a year, during which time he placed the child in the cu...See the full content of this document
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