Mo. Rev. Stat. § 50.641

50.641. Estimates — contents — covering circuit judges, associate circuit judges, staffs, juvenile officers and juvenile court personnel. — 1. The estimates of the circuit court referred to in section 50.640 which are to be included within the county budget by the budget officers and the county commissions without change shall include those categories of expenditures to support the operations of the circuit court which are attributable to the business of the circuit judges, associate circuit judges and the staffs serving such judges. Such estimates shall also include those categories of expenditures to support the operations of all juvenile officers and other juvenile court personnel within the circuit that are funded, in whole or in part, by the county.

2. Nothing contained in section 50.640 shall be construed as providing for the budgeting of county funds to fund the operation of municipal divisions of the circuit court.

(L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 1995 H.B. 274 & 268 merged with S.B. 352) (1982) Circuit judges do not have the authority to fix the salaries of deputy recorders of deeds in those counties where the offices of circuit clerk and recorder of deeds are combined, and such deputy recorders also act as deputy circuit clerks. State ex inf. Dietrich ex rel. Turpin v. Rush (Mo. banc), 636 S.W.2d 51.