Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe signed a measure Thursday repealing the state’s guaranteed paid sick leave law, effective August 28, and ending automatic Consumer Price Index adjustments to the ...

Missouri will stop seizing foster kids’ Social Security benefits and ban child marriage under a new law signed by Gov. Mike ...

A northeast Missouri man accused of shooting and killing his wife, then setting the house they shared on fire, maintains his innocence in circuit court.

A Missouri law from the 1970s prevents pregnant women from obtaining a divorce, regardless of their circumstances.

In Missouri, pregnant women can't get a divorce unless they have a custody agreement settled. "No matter how deep the pain, the law kept me legally bound to him," state Rep. Cecelie Williams said ...

The Missouri House unanimously passed a bill Thursday preventing courts from using pregnancy status as a reason not to dissolve a marriage. "It allows women to file for divorce and finalize, if ...

The Missouri House chamber (Tim Bommel/Missouri House Communications) I’ve written twice about the dangerous misunderstanding that you can’t get a divorce in Missouri while pregnant. Though I’ve ...

The idea that “ pregnant women in Missouri can’t get divorced ” and therefore can’t leave abusive husbands has gone viral. This is a dangerous misunderstanding of law that is likely to ...

Missouri law requires women seeking divorce to disclose whether they're pregnant — and state judges won't finalize divorces during a pregnancy.

Collectively, they represent a form of institutionalized disregard for women’s autonomy and safety. As policymakers and the judiciary in Missouri debate the future of this contentious law, women like ...