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Family

Must consider childcare costs on Form 14
Rule requires circuit court to calculate child support via Form 14, which requires consideration of a custodial parent’s child-care expenses necessitated by work or school. That rule also allows omission of such expense if supported by findings of fact. Circuit court ordered each parent to bear their own child-care expenses, but entered no amount, and made no findings of fact supporting that omission. Only one party appealed the judgment, but the Court of Appeals remans the judgment for additional findings of fact on child-care expenses of both parties.
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Matter of: M.D.P.-W., a Minor, by B.N.W., as Next Friend, and B.N.W. vs. M.P.
Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District - WD86394