Lindsay v. Lindsay

CROW, Judge.

Each party appeals from a document designated “Findings, Recommendations and Judgment and Decree of Dissolution of Marriage” signed by a family court commissioner of the Circuit Court of Greene County. This opinion henceforth refers to the document as “the putative judgment.”

The putative judgment is not signed by a judge.

In Marriage of Slay, — S.W.2d -, 1998 WL 130815 (Mo. banc 1998), number 80405, decided March 24, 1998, the Supreme Court of Missouri held that a document purporting to be a judgment signed by a commissioner of the Circuit Court of St. Louis County was not a…