210.843. Enforcement of judgment or order--payments to be made to circuit clerk or family support payment center--failure to comply, civil contempt. - Missouri Statutes

Enforcement of judgment or order--payments to be made to circuit clerkor family support payment center--failure to comply, civil contempt.

210.843. 1. If the existence of a parent and child relationship isdeclared, and a duty of support has been established pursuant to sections210.817 to 210.852, the support obligation may be enforced in the same orin other appropriate proceedings by the mother, the child, the division ofchild support enforcement, or any other public agency that has furnished ormay furnish the reasonable expenses of pregnancy, confinement, education,support, or funeral, or by any other person, including a private agency, tothe extent he or she has furnished or is furnishing these expenses.

2. The court shall order that support payments be made to the clerkof the circuit court as trustee for remittance to the person entitled toreceive the payments, or where that person has assigned his or her supportrights to the division of family services pursuant to section 208.040,RSMo, as trustee for remittance to the division, as long as the trusteeshipremains in effect. Effective October 1, 1999, the court shall ordersupport payments to be made to the family support payment center asrequired in section 454.530, RSMo, as trustee for remittance to the personentitled to receive the payments.

3. Willful failure to obey any judgment or order of the court enteredpursuant to this section is a civil contempt of court. Section 452.350,RSMo, applies to support orders entered pursuant to this section, and alladministrative and judicial remedies for the enforcements of judgmentsshall apply.

(L. 1987 S.B. 328 § 17, A.L. 1999 S.B. 291)

Effective 7-1-99