Section 454.902

Title XXX DOMESTIC RELATIONS

Chapter 454

Effective - 01 Jul 1997, 3 histories, see footnote   (history) 

  *454.902.  Division of child support enforcement is state information agency, duties. — (a) The division of child support enforcement is the state information agency under sections 454.850 to 454.997.

  (b) The state information agency shall:

  (1) compile and maintain a current list, including addresses, of the tribunals in this state which have jurisdiction under sections 454.850 to 454.997, and any support enforcement agencies in this state and transmit a copy to the state information agency of every other state;

  (2) maintain a register of tribunals and support enforcement agencies received from other states;

  (3) forward to the appropriate tribunal in the place in this state in which the individual obligee or the obligor resides, or in which the obligor's property is believed to be located, all documents concerning a proceeding under sections 454.850 to 454.997, received from an initiating tribunal or the state information agency of the initiating state; and

  (4) obtain information concerning the location of the obligor and the obligor's property within this state not exempt from execution, by such means as postal verification and federal or state locator services, examination of telephone directories, requests for the obligor's address from employers, and examination of governmental records, including, to the extent not prohibited by other law, those relating to real property, vital statistics, law enforcement, taxation, motor vehicles, driver's licenses, and Social Security.

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(L. 1996 H.B. 992, A.L. 1997 S.B. 361)

Effective 7-1-97

*Repealed L. 2011 H.B. 260, see § 454.849 for contingent effective date.