Missouri Court of Appeals· 12/7/1999

Jones v. Jones

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10 S.W.3d 528
1999 Mo. App. LEXIS 2367
1999 WL 1101336

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explaining that the term welfare means something other than best interests in that, in order to demonstrate that a child’s welfare requires that he be placed in third party custody, the third party must plead and prove special or extraordinary circumstances
affirming grant of third-party custody to maternal grandmother on basis that “the welfare of the child require(d]” it, although father was not found to be unfit
involving a grandmother’s motion to intervene in modification of dissolution action
best interest determination only reached if the parental presumption is rebutted under the fitness or welfare basis
involving grandparents’ motion to in- “ tervene in dissolution action

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Judges: Ulrich, P.J., and Edwin H. Smith and Howard

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