Terms Used In Missouri Laws 87.487

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020

The provisions of section 87.485 to the contrary notwithstanding, a pension fund for firefighters located in a home rule city with a population of more than four hundred thousand inhabitants and located in more than one county shall recognize a domestic relations order and pay pension benefits directly to a spouse or former spouse of a participant, if such domestic relations order assigns a spouse or former spouse all or a portion of a participant’s pension benefits payable by the pension fund, is properly entered in a court of competent jurisdiction in accordance with the state‘s domestic relation’s law and complies with the rules and procedures of the pension fund.