452.200. Married person enjoined from squandering property at suit of spouse. - Missouri Statutes

Married person enjoined from squandering property at suit of spouse.

452.200. Any married person may file a petition in the circuit court,setting forth that his or her spouse, from habitual intemperance, or anyother cause, is about to squander and waste the property, money, credits orchoses in action to which he or she is entitled in his or her own right, orany part thereof, or is proceeding fraudulently to convert the same, or anypart thereof, to the spouse's own use, for the purpose of placing the samebeyond his or her reach, and depriving him or her of the benefit thereof;and the court, upon the hearing of the case, may enjoin the spouse fromdisposing of or otherwise interfering with such property, moneys, creditsand choses in action, and may appoint a receiver to control and manage thesame for the benefit of the petitioner, and may also make such other orderin the premises as they may deem just and proper, and upon the filing ofsuch petition an injunction may be allowed as in other cases, and suchpetition shall be filed in the county where said petitioner resides, andthe spouse of said petitioner shall be made a party defendant to saidpetition.

(RSMo 1939 § 1682, A.L. 2001 H.B. 537)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 1518; 1919 § 1968; 1909 § 2533