Title XXX, DOMESTIC RELATIONS

455.536. Costs of legal fees. — The court may order a respondent to pay a reasonable amount for the cost to the petitioner of maintaining any proceeding under sections 455.500 to 455.538 and for attorney's fees, including sums for legal services rendered and costs incurred prior …

455.538. Law enforcement agencies response to violation of order — arrest for violation, penalties — custody to be returned to rightful party, when. — 1. When a law enforcement officer has probable cause to believe that a party, against whom a protective order for a child has bee…

455.543. Homicides or suicides, determination of domestic violence, factors to be considered — reports made to highway patrol, forms. — 1. In any incident investigated by a law enforcement agency involving a homicide or suicide, the law enforcement agency shall make a determinati…

455.545. Annual report by highway patrol. — The highway patrol shall compile an annual report of homicides and suicides related to domestic violence. Such report shall be presented by March first of the subsequent year to the governor, speaker of the house of representatives, and…

455.547. Good faith immunity for reporters. — Any employee of a law enforcement agency who, in good faith, completes and sends a form pursuant to section 455.543 shall be immune from liability. ­­-------- (L. 1998 H.B. 1918)

455.549. Court-appointed batterer intervention, credentialing process, rulemaking authority. — 1. The division of probation and parole within the department of corrections shall promulgate rules to establish standards and to adopt a credentialing process for any court-appointed b…

455.560. Domestic violence fatality review panels, members — report. — 1. A prosecuting attorney or circuit attorney may impanel a domestic violence fatality review panel for the county or city not within a county in which he or she serves to investigate the deaths of victims of …