454.978. Jurisdiction for a child support proceeding. - Missouri Statutes

Jurisdiction for a child support proceeding.

454.978. (a) If all of the individual parties reside in this stateand the child does not reside in the issuing state, a tribunal of thisstate has jurisdiction to enforce and to modify the issuing state's childsupport order in a proceeding to register that order.

(b) A tribunal of this state exercising jurisdiction as provided inthis section shall apply the provisions of sections 454.850 to 454.877 andsections 454.948 to 454.981 to the enforcement or modification proceeding.Sections 454.880 to 454.946 and sections 454.983 to 454.989 do not applyand the tribunal shall apply the procedural and substantive law of thisstate.

(L. 1997 S.B. 361)

Effective 7-1-97