MO - CS Abatement when visitation denied

[Ambr]

What is the name of your state? MO

I am just finding all kinds of neat little things in my research.

I have always been under the impression that visitation and child support were seperate issues and that one could not be with held for failure to provide the other. In a way that rings true, but in a way.....it doesn't.

Missouri Revised Statute Section 452.340.7 provides that a court may abate past or future obligation of child support if it finds that a parent has, without good cause, failed to provide visitation or physical or legal custody

 

[Silverplum]

And CO explicitly denies CS to a parent that runs off and hides the child from the other parent.

Still doesn't change the fact that paying CS does not = a right to parent one's child.

 

[LdiJ]

And CO explicitly denies CS to a parent that runs off and hides the child from the other parent.

Still doesn't change the fact that paying CS does not = a right to parent one's child.

I agree, it just means that in extreme cases of denial, a judge has the option to get "creative".