§34.94 License Suspensions

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H. (§34.94) License Suspensions

Sections 454.1000–454.1031, RSMo 2016, establish Missouri’s procedures for suspending a driver’s license as well as business, occupational, and professional licenses for recalcitrant child support debtors. As with most other recently enacted remedies, license suspension was mandated by federal law. Because the most urgently debated provisions in the Missouri General Assembly involved hunting and fishing permits, § 454.1000(7) and (8), RSMo 2016, specifically excludes licenses issued by the Missouri Department of Conservation, which are dealt with separately in § 454.1027, RSMo 2016. Driver’s license suspensions have proven statistically effective nationally, and IV-D officials in Missouri believe that the state has mirrored the national trend.

License suspension is available to both FSD and non-IV-D obligees. A non-IV-D obligee will proceed through court. The FSD may proceed judicially or administratively, § 454.1003.2, RSMo 2016, except that, if the FSD seeks to suspend a business, professional, or occupational license, it must proceed judicially, § 454.1003.1.

A suspension action may be brought against not only a child support debtor but also an obligor...