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S.W.2d 98, 106 (Mo. Ct. App. 1996). An order granting relief
pendente lite is in the nature of a final judgment from which an
appeal may be taken. Huska v. Huska, 721 S.W.2d 120, 121 (Mo.
Ct. App. 1986); Tzinberg v. Tzinberg, 631 S.W.2d 681, 682 (Mo.
Ct. App. 1982); In re Marriage of Deatherage, 595 S.W.2d 36 (Mo.
Ct. App. 1980).
When a Missouri court does not render a judgment in the form
of a separate document signed by the judge and entered by the
clerk, the docket sheet entry may be examined to determine what
order or judgment, if any, the court rendered. Byrd v. Brown,
641 S.W.2d 163, 166-167 (Mo. Ct. App. 1982). Where it is clear
that a Missouri judge intended a docket sheet entry to be a
determination of the rights of the parties to the action and
shows in intelligible language the relief granted, the docket
sheet entry may be considered the order or judgment. Id.
According to petitioner the docket sheet entry is neither a
valid Missouri judgment nor order because: (1) It lacks the
requisite specificity to be enforced; and (2) the entry was not
signed by Judge Copeland. Petitioner further argues that the
payments were not made pursuant to the docket sheet entry, but
rather pursuant to an unwritten agreement between petitioner and
Mr. Landreth. Either way, according to petitioner, the payments
were not made pursuant to a divorce or separate maintenance
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