454.270. A responding court shall not stay the proceeding or refuse a hearing under the provisions contained in sections 454.010 to 454.360 because of any pending or prior action or proceeding for divorce, separation, annulment, dissolution, habeas corpus, adoption, or custody in this or any other state. The court shall hold a hearing and may issue a support order pendente lite. In aid thereof, it may require the obligor to give a bond for the prompt prosecution of the pending proceeding. If the other action or proceeding is concluded before the hearing in the instant proceeding and the judgment therein provides for the support demanded in the petition pending, the court before which such petition is pending may conform its support order to the amount allowed in the other action or proceeding. Thereafter, such court shall not stay enforcement of its support order because of the retention of jurisdiction for enforcement purposes by the court in the other action or proceeding.
(L. 1959 S.B. 118, A.L. 1982 S.B. 468)
Missouri General Assembly