Admissibility of payment center records
Records of child support payments kept by the payment center or a circuit clerk can be used as proof in court or a government hearing. These records just need to be certified by the director, a circuit clerk, or a payment center employee — no extra steps are needed to prove the records are real. Those certified records count as solid evidence of how much child support was paid.
454.539. of s — by the . — 1. A copy of records of payments to and by the payment center, including but not limited to the records maintained in the , or a , including but not limited to copies produced by electronic or optically scanned means, whether by the , circuit clerk or an employee of the payment center, shall be without further or foundation in any as proof of credits and payments made to or by the payment center or circuit clerk. Records include, but are not limited to, records maintained in the automated child support system.
2. The records shall be certified by the director, a circuit clerk or such clerk's , or an employee of the payment center, and additional proof of the official character of the person ing such record or the of his or her signature shall not be required. The director, circuit clerk or such clerk's designee, or an employee of the payment center may certify payment and records contained or maintained in, or shown by, the automated child support system. The certification of the director, circuit clerk or such clerk's designee, or an employee of the payment center shall certify payments or disbursements regardless of who made the entry of the payment or disbursement. Such records shall constitute of the amount of support paid.
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Source & history notes
(L. 1999 S.B. 291) Effective 7-01-99
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