Joint Interim Committee on Family Law October 13, 1997 Senator Harold Caskey and Representative Pat Dougherty presiding    Members Present:

Senator Caskey	Representative Dougherty
Senator Wiggins	Representative Green
Senator Jacob	Representative Hollingsworth
Senator Bentley	Representative Smith
Senator Yeckel	Representative Kasten
Senator Kenney	Representative Ostmann
	Representative Ridgeway

 

• Opening Remarks

Witnesses:

• Teresa Kaiser, Director, Division of Child Support Enforcement
• Judge Thomas Frawley, 22nd Judicial Circuit, City of St. Louis
• Judge Ralph Haslag, 25th Judicial Circuit, Rolla
• Judge Christine Sill-Rogers, Family Court, Jackson County
• Dr. Richard Warshak, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas, Dallas
• Mr. John McCabe, Legal Counsel and Legislative Director, National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws
• Judge Joseph A. Goeke, Associate Circuit Judge, St. Louis County
• Ms. Karen Plax, Attorney, Kansas City
• Ms. Margaret Donnelly, Attorney, St. Louis City and County
• Mr. Gary Waint, State Courts Administrator's Office
• Ms. Kathleen Chadwick, Licensed Professional Counselor
• Ms. Mary Kay Kithhardt, Professor of Law, UMKC
• Mr. Scott Field, St. Louis
• Mr. John Painter, Parent
• Ms. Laurie Potter, Parent
• Mr. David Rutherford, Parent

Staff:

• Kim Green, Senator Caskey's Administrative Assistant
• Kathy Armstrong, Representative Dougherty's Secretary
• Joan Gummels, Senate Research
• Katherine Hickel, House Research
• Sandy Lueckenhoff, Bill Drafter, Legislative Research
• Mary Lou Scott, Recorder and Transcriber

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