Parents’ Lopsided Shares Of $500,000 Settlement Vacated By Missouri Appeals Court

Mealey's (November 13, 2018, 1:52 PM EST) -- ST. LOUIS — A Missouri appeals court vacated the apportionment of a $500,000 wrongful death settlement between a decedent’s divorced parents on Nov. 6, holding that the allotment of 98 percent to the father and 2 percent to the mother misapplied state law.  It remanded for recalculation of the apportionment amounts (Loren Macke, et al. v. Austin Patton, No. ED106271, Mo. App., Eastern Dist., Div. 3, 2018 Mo. App. LEXIS 1380)....

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