SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 1072
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE HOSMER.
Pre-filed December 3, 2001, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 452.075, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to dissolution of marriage.
Section A. Section 452.075, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 452.075, to read as follows:
452.075. When a [divorce] dissolution of marriage has been granted, and the court has made [an] a modifiable order or
decree providing for the payment of [alimony and] periodic maintenance, the remarriage of the former spouse receiving
maintenance shall relieve the spouse obligated to pay [support] maintenance from further payment of [alimony] periodic
maintenance to the former spouse from the date of the remarriage, without the necessity of further court action. A court
finding of cohabitation with a person in a relationship as sex partners for a period of twenty-four months shall be
deemed as "continuing cohabitation". A finding of continuing cohabitation by a spouse receiving maintenance shall
relieve the former spouse obligated to pay maintenance from further payment of maintenance. The court may
order termination of periodic maintenance from the time of the filing of a motion to determine cohabitation, but the
remarriage or a finding of cohabitation shall not relieve the former spouse from the provisions of any judgment or decree
or order providing for the support of any minor children.
Missouri House of Representatives