Determination of the Charges for Mental Health Services Based Upon Ability to Pay (Rescinded January 1, 1982)

AUTHORITY: section 202.330, RSMo Supp. 1980. Original rule filed Dec. 23, 1975, effective Jan. 2, 1976. Rescinded: Filed Aug. 13, 1981, effective Jan. 1, 1982. Op. Atty. Gen. No. 228, Robb (6-28-73). The Division of Mental Health has the authority and the duty to charge for the care and treatment of a juvenile committed to the Division of Mental Health by the juvenile court or transferred to the Division of Mental Health from the State Board of Training Schools pursuant to section 211.201, RSMo, if this person is determined to be a private patient pursuant to the provisions of section 202.863, RSMo. Op. Atty. Gen. No. 66, Nanson (6-18-58). The Division of Mental Diseases may charge pay patients in state hospitals the maximum amount fixed by the division for each institution or any amount below that maximum based upon the ability, or means of the patient, to pay. A husband is liable for the support of his wife unless she has abandoned him without good cause or has abandoned him with cause and has contracted an adulterous relationship consequently; that a husband is liable for the support of his minor children; that in the absence of the husband or his inability to support minor children the same obligation devolves upon his wife. Persons who adopt a child and persons who stand in the position of in loco parentis have the same duty to support as do natural parents.