When a court in Missouri is asked to enforce two or more child support orders at the same time — where the orders came from different states or countries but involve the same person paying support — the Missouri court handles all those orders the same way it would handle its own orders.
454.1536. Child support orders for two or more . — In responding to registrations or petitions for of two or more child support orders in effect at the same time with regard to the same and different individual obligees, at least one of which was issued by a of another state or a foreign country, a tribunal of this state shall those orders in the same manner as if the orders had been issued by a tribunal of this state.
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Source & history notes
(L. 2011 H.B. 260) Effective 6-15-16, see § 454.1728
Related Missouri laws
Determination of controlling child support order
RSMo 454.1533
Credit for payments
RSMo 454.1539
Continuing jurisdiction to enforce child support order
RSMo 454.1530
Application of act to nonresident subject to personal jurisdiction
RSMo 454.1542
Continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify child support orders
RSMo 454.1527
Continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify spousal support order
RSMo 454.1545
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