Modifies provisions relating to the enforcement of child custody and visitation orders

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Modifies provisions relating to the enforcement of child custody and visitation orders

The following summaries of this bill are available: Print All Summaries Introduced Print SB 1354 - Currently, a court order for the custody of, or visitation with, a child may include a provision that the sheriff or other law enforcement shall enforce the rights of any person to custody or visitation.

What This Bill Does

• The following summaries of this bill are available: Print All Summaries Introduced Print SB 1354 - Currently, a court order for the custody of, or visitation with, a child may include a provision that the sheriff or other law enforcement shall enforce the rights of any person to custody or visitation.
• This act requires that such provision be included in custody or visitation orders.
• This act is identical to a provision in the perfected SS/SB 43 (2025) and the perfected SS/SCS/SBs 767 & 1342 (2024).
• SARAH HASKINS

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Official Summary Text

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SB 1354 - Currently, a court order for the custody of, or visitation with, a child may include a provision that the sheriff or other law enforcement shall enforce the rights of any person to custody or visitation. This act requires that such provision be included in custody or visitation orders.

This act is identical to a provision in the perfected SS/SB 43 (2025) and the perfected SS/SCS/SBs 767 & 1342 (2024).
SARAH HASKINS

Current Bill Text

EXPLANATION-Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in this bill is not enacted
and is intended to be omitted in the law.
SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 1354
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR BRATTIN.
4901S.01I KRISTINA MARTIN, Secretary
AN ACT
To repeal section 452.425, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to
enforcement of child custody and visitation orders.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 452.425, RSMo, is repealed and one new 1
section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 452.425, 2
to read as follows:3
452.425. Any court order for the custody of, or 1
visitation with, a child [may] shall include a provision 2
that the sheriff or other law enforcement officer shall 3
enforce the rights of any person to custody or visitation 4
unless the court issues a subsequent order pursuant to 5
chapter 210, 211, 452 or 455 to limit or deny the custody 6
of, or visitations with, the child. Such sheriff or law 7
enforcement officer shall not remove a child from a person 8
who has actual physical custody of the child unless such 9
sheriff or officer is shown a court order or judgment which 10
clearly and convincingly verifies that such person is not 11
entitled to the actual physical custody of the child, and 12
there are not other exigent circumstances that would give 13
the sheriff or officer reasonable suspicion to believe that 14
the child would be harmed or that the court order presented 15
to the sheriff or officer may not be valid. 16
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