SECOND REGULAR SESSION
92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES GOODMAN (Sponsor), STEVENSON, MUNZLINGER, MYERS,
DIXON, VIEBROCK AND SELBY (Co-sponsors).
Read 1st time January 13, 2004, and copies ordered printed.
STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal sections 452.075 and 452.420, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to alimony and maintenance.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Sections 452.075 and 452.420, RSMo, are repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 452.075, to read as follows: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 has been granted, and the court has made an order or decree providing for the payment of alimony and maintenance, the remarriage of the former spouse shall relieve the spouse obligated to pay support from further payment of alimony to the former spouse from the date of the remarriage, without the necessity of further court action. The court may also relieve a former spouse from further payment of alimony and maintenance on a finding that a former spouse receiving alimony or maintenance is cohabitating or has cohabitated with another person in a relationship of a romantic nature, but the remarriage or order of the court terminating alimony or maintenance shall not relieve the former spouse from the provisions of any judgment or decree or order providing for the support of any minor children.
[452.420. All proceedings authorized in chapter 452 to be maintained in circuit court shall be heard by circuit judges, except that said proceedings may be heard by an associate circuit judge if he is assigned to hear such case or class of cases or if he is transferred to hear such case or class of cases pursuant to other provisions of law or section 6 of article V of the constitution.]