Mo. Rev. Stat. § 87.487: Fund subject to domestic relations order (Kansas City).

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.