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Probate Code — Intestate Succession and Wills
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Missouri Revised Statutes
Trusts and Estates of Decedents and Persons Under Disability
Probate Code — Intestate Succession and Wills
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Section
474.010
General rules of descent.
Section
474.015
Failure to survive decedent by 120 hours deemed predecease of decedent — consequences.
Section
474.020
Lineals take per capita and per stirpes, when.
Section
474.030
Partial intestacy.
Section
474.040
Collaterals of half blood inherit, how.
Section
474.050
Posthumous children to inherit.
Section
474.060
Determination of relationship of parent and child — adopted person is child of adopting parent, exception — illegitimate child, relationship determined.
Section
474.070
Legitimation by marriage.
Section
474.080
Issue of void or dissolved marriage, legitimate.
Section
474.090
Advancements counted against share, when — evaluation.
Section
474.100
Alienage no bar to descent.
Section
474.110
Curtesy and dower abolished.
Section
474.120
Inheritance and statutory rights deemed waived, when.
Section
474.130
Estate conveyed determines on failure of contractual bar.
Section
474.140
Inheritance and statutory rights barred on misconduct of spouse.
Section
474.150
Gifts in fraud of marital rights — presumptions on conveyances.
Section
474.155
Contract to make will or devise, revoke or not revoke will or devise, or to die intestate, how established.
Section
474.160
Election by surviving spouse to take against will, effect.
Section
474.163
Valuation of estate, how determined.
Section
474.170
Notice of right to elect.
Section
474.180
Time for making of election.
Section
474.190
Form of election, filing.
Section
474.200
Right of election personal to surviving spouse.
Section
474.220
Waiver of right to elect.
Section
474.230
Effect of failure to elect to take against will.
Section
474.235
Share of omitted spouse.
Section
474.240
Share of omitted children, how determined.
Section
474.250
Exempt property of surviving spouse or minor children.
Section
474.260
One year support allowance, property in lieu thereof — allowance exempt from all claims.
Section
474.270
Exempt property applied for, when.
Section
474.280
Proceeds of sale of exempt property paid over, when.
Section
474.290
Homestead allowance — partition of real estate selected, procedure — waiver.
Section
474.293
Provision of family allowance by independent personal representative — limitations — relief by court.
Section
474.300
Effect of death of spouse or child or marriage of minor on family and homestead allowances.
Section
474.310
Who may make will.
Section
474.320
Will form, execution, attestation.
Section
474.330
Who may witness will — effect of interest in will.
Section
474.333
Will may provide for disposal of personal property by separate list.
Section
474.337
Written will self-proved, how.
Section
474.340
Nuncupative wills.
Section
474.350
Revocation of nuncupative will.
Section
474.360
Written will valid if executed in compliance with law.
Section
474.370
Foreign wills, recorded when, evidence.
Section
474.380
Probate of foreign wills.
Section
474.382
Wills and trusts, English translation required, costs.
Section
474.390
Contest of foreign will.
Section
474.395
No-contest clauses, application of, petition may be filed — definition.
Section
474.400
Revocation of wills.
Section
474.410
Revocation of subsequent will also revokes first will — exception.
Section
474.420
Change in circumstances — divorce.
Section
474.425
Property given by testator during life treated as satisfaction of devise, when — valuation.
Section
474.430
Court to conform to directions of will.
Section
474.435
Class gift terminology includes certain persons and relationships, how determined.
Section
474.440
Bond to convey does not revoke devise.
Section
474.450
Encumbrance does not revoke devise — exoneration, when.
Section
474.455
Devisee who does not survive testator by 120 hours treated as predeceasing testator — exceptions.
Section
474.460
Testator surviving devisee, effect.
Section
474.463
Exchange of securities not to adeem specific legacy.
Section
474.465
Failure of devise to become part of residue.
Section
474.470
Rule in Shelley's case abolished, effect.
Section
474.480
Devise deemed to convey fee simple, when.
Section
474.500
Wills of land to be recorded, where.
Section
474.510
Deposit of will in court in testator's lifetime.
Section
474.520
Construction of will.
Section
474.530
Wills heretofore probated, effect — evidence.