Effective - 28 Aug 1939
377.330. Proceeds not liable for debts. — The money or other benefit, charity, relief or aid to be paid, provided or rendered by any corporation authorized to do business under sections 377.200 to 377.460, shall not be liable to attachment or other process, and shall not be seized, taken, appropriated or applied by any legal or equitable process, nor by operation of law, to pay any debt or liability of a policy or certificate holder, or of any beneficiary named in a policy or certificate.
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(RSMo 1939 § 5883)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 5772; 1919 § 6182; 1909 § 6976
(1955) Where endowment life insurance contract at time of its assignment to insured's wife had cash surrender value exceeding income taxes due and where only two premiums remained to be paid, and where such premiums were later paid and policy matured, the proceeds thereof were subject to be seized for the enforcement of income tax liens. Reinicke v. Commr. of Internal Revenue, 220 F.2d 406.