Rupnik v. Rupnik

GARY M. GAERTNER, Judge.

Appellant, Karen Lynn Rupnik (“mother”), appeals from an order of the Circuit Court of the County of St. Charles requiring her to pay respondent’s, Steven August Rupnik’s (“father”),1 attorneys’ fees, incurred when mother filed a motion to remove the parties’ minor children from Missouri to Russellville, Arkansas. We reverse and remand.

The parties were divorced in 1986. The decree of dissolution provided the parties would share joint custody of them two minor children, T.R. and C.R.; mother would have primary physical custody of the children; and father would have…