T.D. v. K.D.

The parties were divorced in 1985 in the circuit court in question. They agreed on shared parental custody but the mother was the primary residential parent and he was given rights to visitation. In 1993 the father was charged with criminally molesting the child, and at the same time dependency proceedings were brought, all in the same circuit court. The judge presiding over the divorce case consolidated it with the dependency case in the juvenile division. Ultimately the criminal charges were dismissed. The dependency case was also dismissed by an order of the juvenile division stating that:

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