State Ex Rel. Rosen v. Smith

KATHIANNE KNAUP CRANE, Presiding Judge.

Relator, Lawrence C. Rosen, filed a petition for writ of mandamus to order respondent, the Honorable Dennis N. Smith, Associate Circuit Judge of the Twenty-First Judicial Circuit, to dismiss a motion for attorney’s fees in Cause No. 02FC-001143. We vacate our preliminary order in mandamus and enter a peremptory writ of prohibition.

Relator’s marriage to Judy A. Rosen was dissolved in 2002. On February 16, 2007, relator filed a motion to modify the parties’ dissolution decree, in Cause No. 02FC-001143, in the Circuit Court of St. Louis County. On April 9,…