2012 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE XXX DOMESTIC RELATIONS
Chapter 454 Enforcement of Support Law
Section 454.869 Jurisdiction, proceedings involving a foreign tribunal, tribunal requests to enforce or modify support orders.
(Repealed L. 2011 H.B. 260 A)
See 454.849 for contingent effective date.Jurisdiction, proceedings involving a foreign tribunal, tribunal requests to enforce or modify support orders.
454.869. (a) A tribunal of this state may serve as an initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another state to enforce or modify a support order issued in that state.
(b) A tribunal of this state having continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over a support order may act as a responding tribunal to enforce or modify the order. If a party subject to the continuing, exclusive jurisdiction of the tribunal no longer resides in the issuing state, in subsequent proceedings the tribunal may apply section 454.917 to receive evidence from another state and section 454.922 to obtain discovery through a tribunal of another state.
(c) A tribunal of this state which lacks continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over a spousal support order may not serve as a responding tribunal to modify a spousal support order of another state.
(L. 1996 H.B. 992, A.L. 1997 S.B. 361)Effective 7-1-97
*Repealed L. 2011 H.B. 260, see 454.849 for contingent effective date
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