McCammon v. McCammon’s Empirical Analysis

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20 state decisions

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1. ““Whatever the law may be at this time with respect to the necessity for a petition for dissolution verified by the plaintiff and the plaintiff only, in order to confer jurisdiction upon the court, we see no reason to read such a requirement into § 452.455. Under the present law, an action to modify a prior custody decree is governed by §§ 452.410, 452.450, 452.455 and 452.480. Section 452.410 provides in part that a ‘court shall not modify a prior custody decree unless it has jurisdiction under the provisions of section 452.-450....’ The latter section explicitly confers jurisdiction on the court ‘to make a child custody determination by initial or modification decree ...’ in certain circumstances. Amended § 452.455 ... requires that a petition for modification be verified. Section 452.480 further provides that ‘[i]n his first pleading, or in an affidavit attached to that pleading, every party in a custody proceeding shall give information under oath’ concerning the child. But only § 452.450 specifies what is required to confer jurisdiction on the court in such cases, and those specifications do not include verification by the petitioner of the petition to modify. We agree with the Eastern District of this court which in a similar case held that the requirements of § 452.480 are not jurisdictional. In re Marriage of Gohn.... The court held there that ‘[s]ection 452.450 sets forth certain jurisdictional requirements. It contains no reference to Section 452.480_ Jurisdiction at”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Blankenship v. Blankenship · Butler v. Butler