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Missouri Laws > Title XXXI > Chapter 474 - Probate Code--Intestate Succession and Wills


Current as of: 2009
§ 474.010General rules of descent
§ 474.015Failure to survive decedent by 120 hours deemed predecease of decedent--consequences
§ 474.020Lineals take per capita and per stirpes, when
§ 474.030Partial intestacy
§ 474.040Collaterals of half blood inherit, how
§ 474.050Posthumous children to inherit
§ 474.060Determination of relationship of parent and child--adopted person is child of adopting parent, exception--illegitimate child, relationship determined
§ 474.070Legitimation by marriage
§ 474.080Issue of void or dissolved marriage, legitimate
§ 474.090Advancements counted against share, when--evaluation
§ 474.100Alienage no bar to descent
§ 474.110Curtesy and dower abolished
§ 474.120Inheritance and statutory rights deemed waived, when
§ 474.130Estate conveyed determines on failure of contractual bar
§ 474.140Inheritance and statutory rights barred on misconduct of spouse
§ 474.150Gifts in fraud of marital rights--presumptions on conveyances
§ 474.155Contract to make will or devise, revoke or not revoke will or devise, or to die intestate, how established
§ 474.160Election by surviving spouse to take against will, effect
§ 474.163Valuation of estate, how determined
§ 474.170Notice of right to elect
§ 474.180Time for making of election
§ 474.190Form of election, filing
§ 474.200Right of election personal to surviving spouse
§ 474.220Waiver of right to elect
§ 474.230Effect of failure to elect to take against will
§ 474.235Share of omitted spouse
§ 474.240Share of omitted children, how determined
§ 474.250Exempt property of surviving spouse or minor children
§ 474.260One year support allowance, property in lieu thereof--allowance exempt from all claims
§ 474.270Exempt property applied for, when
§ 474.280Proceeds of sale of exempt property paid over, when
§ 474.290Homestead allowance--partition of real estate selected, procedure--waiver
§ 474.293Provision of family allowance by independent personal representative--limitations--relief by court
§ 474.300Effect of death of spouse or child or marriage of minor on family and homestead allowances
§ 474.310Who may make will
§ 474.320Will form, execution, attestation
§ 474.330Who may witness will--effect of interest in will
§ 474.333Will may provide for disposal of personal property by separate list
§ 474.337Written will self-proved, how
§ 474.340Nuncupative wills
§ 474.350Revocation of nuncupative will
§ 474.360Written will valid if executed in compliance with law
§ 474.370Foreign wills, recorded when, evidence
§ 474.380Probate of foreign wills
§ 474.382Wills and trusts, English translation required, costs
§ 474.390Contest of foreign will
§ 474.400Revocation of wills
§ 474.410Revocation of subsequent will also revokes first will--exception
§ 474.420Change in circumstances--divorce
§ 474.425Property given by testator during life treated as satisfaction of devise, when--valuation
§ 474.430Court to conform to directions of will
§ 474.435Class gift terminology includes certain persons and relationships, how determined
§ 474.440Bond to convey does not revoke devise
§ 474.450Encumbrance does not revoke devise--exoneration, when
§ 474.455Devisee who does not survive testator by 120 hours treated as predeceasing testator--exceptions
§ 474.460Testator surviving devisee, effect
§ 474.463Exchange of securities not to adeem specific legacy
§ 474.465Failure of devise to become part of residue
§ 474.470Rule in Shelley's case abolished, effect
§ 474.480Devise deemed to convey fee simple, when
§ 474.500Wills of land to be recorded, where
§ 474.510Deposit of will in court in testator's lifetime
§ 474.520Construction of will
§ 474.530Wills heretofore probated, effect--evidence

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