Court Opinion

ID: 9705539
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 01:11:05.851361+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:24:34.210712
License: Public Domain

WILLIAM RAY PRICE, JR., Judge,
concurring.
Missouri statutes 211.447.8 and 453.040(8), RSMo 2000, provide that actions for termination of parental rights and adoption may be combined in one proceeding. Should a party appeal a judgment terminating parental rights, the judgment of adoption should be stayed pending the outcome of the appeal. See Rule 120.01(b).
Although I do not agree with the majority in its decision to reverse and remand the trial court’s judgment terminating parental rights in In the Interest of K.A.W., K.A.W., No. SC85683, 2004 WL 616342, 133 S.W.3d 1 (Mo. banc Mar.30, 2004), the effect of that outcome must be to set aside the adoption action as well. For this reason, I concur in the result of the majority decision to issue the writ.