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Missouri father wants to change family laws he says prevented him from seeing his son
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Mark Ludwig says the present household legal guidelines deal with dads unfairly in divorce circumstances.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — All month, 5 On Your Aspect is targeted on the psychological well being disaster in America. This morning, we take a look at the impression of divorce on kids and households. One Missouri father has been combating for years to vary the household legal guidelines that prevented him from seeing his son.
“On daily basis of his life has been documented now,” stated father Mark Ludwig, flipping via notebooks crammed with pictures of his son and handwritten recollections.
Writing recollections down in these journals is how Ludwig ensures his son can mirror on their time collectively. That’s as a result of time is not one thing he and his son have at all times had.
“After my son was born, he was moved with out my information,” Ludwig stated. “I spent 204 days monitoring him down and gaining access to him. After that point, I used to be relegated to an each different weekend customer.”
Ludwig discovered personally how exhausting divorce or separation may be on {couples} and their kids. He says dads aren’t handled pretty in court docket.
“If a pair will get divorced or separated, that youngster wants entry to that father, every mum or dad provides worth to a baby otherwise,” Ludwig defined.
That is why he has made it his mission to vary household court docket legal guidelines and launched the non-profit Individuals For Equal Shared Parenting.
Final 12 months, he traveled to 24 states making an attempt to go laws.
“I used to be simply stunned. I believed this is able to solely take a 12 months or two to get handed. We have been working in Missouri now since 2016,” he defined.
Republican Consultant Jim Murphy of south St. Louis County is the sponsor of Home Invoice 1974, often known as the shared parenting invoice.
“I imagine that fathers have been discriminated towards prior to now. There’s virtually a presumption {that a} girl ought to have custody and that you must show that the girl has carried out one thing incorrect in an effort to equalize that. It should not be that manner, it needs to be each presumed equal until confirmed in any other case,” Murphy stated.
Household legislation lawyer Martha Moran says Missouri courts are already striving for 50-50 in custody circumstances.
“It isn’t simply successful custody. The objective is shared custody. Analysis reveals that kids profit from having important, if not equal, contact with each dad and mom,” Moran stated.
Moran stated the state’s legal guidelines had been up to date in 2012 to mirror that objective. Her drawback with this invoice is it tries to provide a one-size-fits-all method to one thing very advanced.
“The court docket goes to aim to provide as a lot time as attainable to every mum or dad, however generally it’s simply not attainable,” she defined.
Regardless of the size of time it’s taking to go, Ludwig says he received’t cease. He needs to verify fathers like him don’t should undergo what he went via simply to see their kids.
“Highschool drop-out charges, drug charges, you learn of all these issues and virtually all of these, half of these would go away if you happen to would get 50-50 equal shared parenting and permit dads again into their youngster’s lives,” he stated.
Consultant Murphy tells 5 On Your Aspect the shared parenting invoice is making its manner via the Home and Senate. It could stall once more with solely two weeks left of session.
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Missouri State football vs. Montana today: Live updates, highlights from Week 1 game
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Missouri State football: Ryan Beard previews Montana
Missouri State head football coach Ryan Beard held his weekly press conference ahead of Saturday’s opener at Montana.
Missouri State football season has arrived and an offseason of looking to the 2025 season and its impending move to Conference USA will be set aside for the Bears’ final season in the Missouri Valley Football Conference and FCS.
Opening day will present quite a challenge.
Missouri State will open its 2024 season at FCS national runner-up Montana on Saturday in Missoula, Montana, at 8 p.m. This is the first time the two teams have met on the gridiron.
Ryan Beard is entering his second season as Missouri State’s head coach. His team will look to build off a 4-7 season while staying focused on this season despite being ineligible for the FCS Playoffs.
Montana finished last season as the FCS national runner-up. The Grizzlies hope to finish the job this season as they enter the season as the No. 3-ranked team in the country.
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Missouri father uses a funeral to wean daughter off pacifier
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The Bishop family of Festus, Missouri, can smile now, but a few months ago the mood was much more somber as Courtney, Jake and their 3-year-old daughter Hazel said goodbye to a very important member of the family: Hazel’s beloved pacifier.
“It’s not good for her teeth and her jaws and all of that, so we had been trying to wean her off of it for some time,” Jake, 35, said.
Hazel’s beloved pacifier, affectionately known as “Paci,” had been with her for years. Jake knew saying goodbye could come with tears and tantrums, so he searched for creative approaches to ease the transition. He considered options such as cutting off the end of the pacifier, soaking it in vinegar or planting it in a pot.
Instead, Jake chose to give Paci a funeral.
Of course, before the internet, parents used to just take the thing away and deal with the tantrum. But today, for better or worse, young parents like Jake would rather not go to war over a binky. They’re “pacy-fists,” if you will.
“You need them to go through some tough times to really grow as a person but you don’t need to make extra tough times for them,” Jake said. “They’ll have plenty of those coming up.”
Parents delight in making milestones, but those milestones are often bittersweet because each turning point is a point of no return.
“She’s transitioning to the next stage of her life,” Jake said of Hazel, their first child. “We just got to hold onto those moments and those memories, because it goes fast.”
Hazel hasn’t asked for Paci again since. Although, shortly after the ceremony, Jake dug it up and buried it again in a keepsake box, making dad the one who just can’t let go.
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Kansas man charged after child porn allegedly sent while in Missouri
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – A Kansas man has been charged after he allegedly sent child pornography while in a Missouri county.
Court documents filed in the Platte County, Missouri, Circuit Court have revealed that on Wednesday, Aug. 28, Courtnie R. Purvis, 45, of Overland Park, Kansas, has been charged with a single count of promoting child pornography in the first degree.
A complaint filed by the prosecuting attorney reported that in June 2023, Purvis knowingly sent out child pornography while in Platte County. The content allegedly depicted two victims, with whom Purvis has been barred from any contact.
As a part of his $25,000 cash-only bond agreement, if bailed out, Purvis is not allowed contact with any minor whatsoever. As of Friday, he is not behind Platte County bars.
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