Smead v. Allen

KENNEDY, Judge.

After a hearing upon respondent father’s motion to modify a decree with respect to child custody, held July 28-29, 1977, the Circuit Court of Jackson County ordered the custody of Rodney Eugene Allen, nearly 11 years of age, transferred from his mother, the appellant, to his father.

Appellant complains of the admission into evidence of written reports of investigators for the Jackson County Juvenile Court and the Orange County (California) Probation Department. The reports had been ordered by the court under the authority of § 452.390, RSMo Supp. 1975.

In admitting these reports,…