State ex rel. K.D. v. Saitz

GARY M. GAERTNER, Presiding Judge.

This cause comes before the court on Relator’s Petition in Mandamus, which seeks our order to mandate respondent to issue a dispositional order for the placement or treatment of Relator who has been adjudicated an abused and neglected child pursuant to § 211.031.1(1), RSMo 1978, as amended in 1983.1 We issued a Preliminary Order in Mandamus and hereby make it absolute.

In the Second Regular Session of the 83rd General Assembly, the legislature passed “House Committee Substitute for House Bill No. 1502.” This bill repealed “section (sic) 207.020 and 211.181,…