Establishment of support order
This law explains when a Missouri court can create a child support order. If no support order already exists, a Missouri court can make one when the person asking for support lives in another state, or when the agency helping with support is in another state. The court can also make a temporary child support order in certain situations, like when a man is believed to be or proven to be the child's father, or when someone already had a support order before. If the court finds that a person owes support, it will officially order that person to pay.
454.1605. of . — (a) If a support order entitled to under sections 454.1500 to 454.1728 has not been d, a of this state with over the parties may issue a support order if:
(1) the individual seeking the resides outside this state; or
(2) the seeking the order is located outside this state.
(b) The may issue a if the tribunal that such an order is and the individual ordered to pay is:
(1) a of the child;
(2) petitioning to have his ;
(3) identified as the father of the child through ;
(4) an alleged father who has declined to submit to genetic testing;
(5) shown by to be the father of the child;
(6) an as provided under section 210.823;
(7) the mother of the child; or
(8) an individual who has been ordered to pay child support in a previous and the order has not been .
(c) Upon finding, after notice and opportunity to be heard, that an owes a , the tribunal shall issue a support order directed to the obligor and may issue other orders section 454.1560.
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Source & history notes
(L. 2011 H.B. 260) Effective 6-15-16, see § 454.1728
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