452.130. Spouse abandoned, court to adjudge maintenance--execution to enforce. - Missouri Statutes

Spouse abandoned, court to adjudge maintenance--execution to enforce.

452.130. When a person, without good cause, shall abandon his or herspouse, and refuse or neglect to maintain and provide for him or her, thecircuit court, on his or her petition for that purpose, shall order andadjudge such support and maintenance to be provided and paid by such personfor the spouse and the spouse's children, or any of them, by that marriage,out of his property, and for such time as the nature of the case and thecircumstances of the parties shall require, and compel the person to givesecurity for such maintenance, and from time to time make such furtherorders touching the same as shall be just, and enforce such judgment byexecution, sequestration of property, or by such other lawful means as arein accordance with the practice of the court; and as long as saidmaintenance is continued, the person shall not be charged with the spouse'sdebts, contracted after the judgment for such maintenance.

(RSMo 1939 § 3376, A.L. 2001 H.B. 537)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 2989; 1919 § 7314; 1909 § 8295

CROSS REFERENCE:

Amounts paid under order of support, credited how, RSMo 454.280

(1973) Judgment of trial court dismissing Petition for Separate Maintenance with prejudice may not be set aside unless it is clearly erroneous. Brokaw v. Brokaw (A.), 492 S.W.2d 859.