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RSMo 452.600effective 28 Aug 1998

Educational sessions program shall be established by courts

In plain English

Missouri courts are required to set up classes for parents going through a divorce or custody case. These classes teach parents how divorce affects kids and explain ways to settle disagreements without going to court. A court can also choose to send parents to an outside program instead of running its own.

Word-for-word law

452.600. program shall be established by courts — for proceedings involving or support. — The , by , shall establish a program of educational sessions for parties to actions for or in involving custody or support, concerning the of dissolution of marriage on of the marriage, and the benefits of , including . establishing such a program, the may, by local rule, a similar program of educational sessions offered by a private or public .

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Source & history notes

(L. 1993 H.B. 353 § 1 subsec. 1, A.L. 1998 S.B. 910)

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