What court records exist regarding custody arrangements for Renee Nicole Good's children?

1. The only confirmed court filing: a name‑change petition

The clearest public court document identified in reporting is Renee’s October 18, 2023 petition in Jackson County Circuit Court to change her name from Renee Nicole Macklin to Renee Nicole Macklin Good; that petition included an address in Kansas City and stated she had three children, then aged roughly 13, 10 and 3, with the two older children living in Colorado and the youngest in Kansas City ^{[1] [5]}.

2. What searches of court records turned up — and what they did not

A focused public‑records search reported by Limitless Media examined criminal and court files under multiple names associated with Good and reported finding no arrest records, citations, criminal charges, or custody proceedings — the name‑change filing was the only court record located in that review ^[2]. Several fact‑checking outlets and international news organizations likewise report an absence of public court documents showing child‑abuse arrests, formal custody proceedings, or loss‑of‑custody rulings related to Good or her partner ^{[6] [7]}.

3. News reports that state custody arrangements — and their sourcing

Local and national news outlets have published accounts saying Good’s two older children are “in custody of their father” while the youngest was being raised by Good and her partner; those accounts appear in multiple outlets including the Hindustan Times, Marca, The Times of India and local Kansas City reporting ^{[3] [4] [8] [9]}. These pieces often rely on interviews with family members, neighbors, or aggregated reporting (for example, The Associated Press and the Star Tribune are cited by others) rather than explicitly citing a public custody order or court docket entry spelling out a formal custody judgment ^{[8] [1]}.

4. Conflicting or unsupported claims in circulation

After Good’s death, social media and some outlets circulated stronger claims — including allegations of past child‑abuse arrests or that Good “lost custody” in court — that multiple fact checks and reporters have described as unsubstantiated; extensive searches turned up no official records corroborating those allegations, and several outlets explicitly labeled the viral claims false or unproven ^{[2] [6] [7]}.

5. What can be said with confidence — and the reporting limits

It is factual, on the basis of reported court documents, that Good filed a legal name‑change petition in Jackson County in October 2023 that listed three children and relevant addresses ^[1]. It is also factual that multiple public‑records searches reported by journalists did not find criminal or custody court files associated with her name ^[2]. What remains less certain in the public record is whether formal custody arrangements were ever recorded in court files beyond what family members or news outlets have described; reporting that the older children live with their father appears in several news stories but those stories do not uniformly point to a specific custody order or docket number ^{[3] [4] [10]}.

6. How to follow the paper trail going forward

For definitive confirmation of formal custody orders, the next reporting step is a targeted search of family‑court dockets in the counties where the children lived or where divorce proceedings occurred (reporters and researchers cited Kansas City/Jackson County and Colorado as relevant jurisdictions) and direct sourcing from court clerks or certified copies of judgments; until such filings are produced publicly, assertions about court‑ordered custody should be treated as reported facts from family or press accounts rather than verified entries in the court record ^{[1] [2]}.