A married person can file a paper (called a petition) with the circuit court to ask for things like divorce or other related matters. The court handles it the same way it handles other regular civil cases.
452.240. of , proceedings. — The petition of a married person for any of the purposes before mentioned may be filed and the case heard and determined in the , and the like and proceedings shall be had as in other triable before judges.
(RSMo 1939 § 3382, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 2001 H.B. 537)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 2995; 1919 § 7320; 1909 § 8301
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