454.150. Costs and fees. - Missouri Statutes

Costs and fees.

454.150. An initiating court shall not require the payment of eithera filing fee or other costs from the obligee, but may request theresponding court to collect fees and costs from the obligor. A respondingcourt shall not require the payment of a filing fee or other costs from theobligee, but it may direct that all fees and costs requested by theinitiating court and incurred in this state when acting as a respondingstate be paid in whole or in part by the obligor or by the appropriatecounty of the initiating state. These costs or fees do not have priorityover amounts due to the obligee.

(L. 1959 S.B. 118, A.L. 1982 S.B. 468, A.L. 1996 S.B. 869)

Effective 7-1-97