68.1 - Filing Requirements - Family Court Proceedings

Court Rules

Rule 68 - Dissolution of Marriage

Rule 68.1 - 68.1 - Filing Requirements - Family Court Proceedings

1. Circuit Court Form 17 - Family Court Information Sheet - shall be completed and attached to all initial pleadings filed in the Family Court Division. The pleading shall contain all the information requested in Form 17 including, to the extent known, the style and case number of any case pending or previously adjudicated in any court related to dissolution of marriage, custody, visitation, paternity, guardianship, adoption, child support, maintenance, abuse, neglect or delinquent behavior (by the minor child(ren)), or adult abuse of or by any parties to this action. The Form 17 shall also state all other names by which any party has been known.

2. Circuit Court Form 17 shall be completed and attached to all initial responsive pleadings filed in the Family Court Division only when the information contained in the Form 17 attached to the initial pleading is incomplete or inaccurate.

3. Each party shall have a continuing duty to update Form 17 as necessary until the case has been concluded.

4. Due to issues of confidentiality, in any pre-judgment dissolution case in which paternity of one or more children must be established, a separate case shall be filed to establish paternity with no filing fee required. The paternity case and the dissolution case shall automatically be assigned to the same judge for disposition. In order to avoid a separate filing fee, the party filing the paternity case shall be responsible for advising the Department of Civil Records of the companion dissolution case and its case number.

5. Unchallenged acknowledgments of paternity in any pre-judgment dissolution case for a child born prior to the marriage do not require the establishment of paternity if both parties to the dissolution are listed on the child’s birth certificate. Under such circumstances no separate paternity action shall be filed. 壯 210.822, 210.823 RSMo.

Adopted 3/22/13
Effective 4/19/13
Revised 8/15/25