Grounds for modification of orders
This law explains when a judge can change a protection order that deals with money payments, child custody, or visitation. For money payments, a judge can only change future payments, and only if something big has changed that makes the old amount unfair. For custody, a judge can only make changes if something new has happened — or something the court didn't know before — that affects the child or the parent, and the change would be best for the child. For visitation, a judge can make changes whenever doing so would be best for the child.
455.530. Grounds for of s. — 1. of any order respecting or support may be only as to occurring subsequent to the and only upon a showing of changed circumstances so substantial and continuing as to make the terms unreasonable.
2. Provisions of any order respecting may be modified only if the court finds, upon the basis of facts that have arisen since the prior order or that were unknown to the court at the time of the prior order, that a change has occurred in the circumstances of the child or his and that the modification is necessary to serve the .
3. Provisions of any order respecting may be modified when the modification would serve the best interests of the child.
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Source & history notes
(L. 1987 H.B. 598 § 13)
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