Court may authorize persons holding money of married person to pay spouse
A court can order someone who is holding money or property that belongs to a married person to hand it over to that person's spouse instead. The spouse can then sign off on receiving it, and that sign-off counts just as much as if the original owner had signed it themselves.
452.210. Court may authorize persons holding money of married person to pay spouse. — The court may also, upon the of such person, authorize any person holding money or other to which the spouse is entitled in his or her right to pay and the same to the , and may authorize him or her to give a for the same, which discharge shall be as valid as if made by the spouse.
(RSMo 1939 § 3379, A.L. 2001 H.B. 537)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 2992; 1919 § 7317; 1909 § 8298
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