Terms Used In Missouri Laws 436.505

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.

A preneed contract may offer the purchaser the option to acquire and maintain credit life insurance on the life of the purchaser. Such insurance shall provide for the payment of death benefits to the seller in an amount equal to the total of all contract payments unpaid as of the date of such purchaser’s death, and shall be used solely to make those unpaid payments. Any such credit life insurance shall be provided by a duly authorized insurance company and the preneed contract shall clearly identify the name of the insurer and the amount of payment allocated to the premium payment for the credit life. No seller or provider may provide any form of self insured credit life.