Foreign order of protection to be given full faith and credit
If someone has a protection order from another state, tribe, US territory, Puerto Rico, or Washington D.C., Missouri will honor it and treat it just like a Missouri protection order. A person can file a copy of that out-of-state order with a Missouri court at no cost, but filing is not required — the order can still be enforced without it. The order stays valid in Missouri as long as it is still active in the place that issued it.
455.067. to be given — of , content, procedure. — 1. Any issued by any other state, tribe, territory or possession of the United States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or the of Columbia shall be given full faith and credit throughout the state in all courts, and by all law officials and agencies, and all public officials and shall be in the same manner as any order of protection issued by a court in this state.
2. A person entitled to protection under a foreign order of protection as described in 1 of this section may file a of the foreign order of protection and an or from the that the copy of the foreign order is a true and accurate copy and has not been altered in the having . If the foreign order of protection terminates prior to the expiration date on the order, the petitioner shall notify the circuit court. A foreign order of protection as described in subsection 1 of this section shall be enforceable in this state so long as it is in effect in the .
3. of the foreign order of protection shall be without fee or cost.
4. Registration and a Missouri recognizing a foreign order of protection shall not be required for the enforcement of a in this state.
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Source & history notes
(L. 1995 H.B. 232 & 485, A.L. 1999 S.B. 1, et al., A.L. 2002 H.B. 1814)
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