When someone is put in charge of a deceased person's estate, they have to provide a bond (a kind of financial promise). A judge or court clerk looks at the bond and decides if it is acceptable or not. If the bond is turned down, the person in charge must come back with a better bond within a set amount of time.
473.183. Approval of . — The judge or shall examine and approve or reject the bond of each or and the approval or rejection thereof shall be thereon and entered on the records of the court. In the case of personal , the judge or clerk shall take special care to accept as sureties, only those who are and sufficient and who are not bound in too many other . Before giving approval, the judge or clerk may take or examine on the or persons offered as his sureties as to the value and character of the of the . If the bond is rejected the executor or administrator, within such time as the judge, or in his absence, the clerk directs, shall give a bond with satisfactory sureties.
(RSMo 1939 §§ 22, 24, 25, A.L. 1955 p. 385 § 82)
Prior revisions: 1929 §§ 22, 24, 25; 1919 §§ 21, 23, 24; 1909 §§ 29, 31, 32
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Related Missouri laws
Persons not acceptable as sureties
RSMo 473.180
Bond valid though rejected
RSMo 473.187
Affidavit of personal sureties
RSMo 473.177
Sufficiency of bond to be shown on settlements
RSMo 473.190
Bond of joint executors or administrators
RSMo 473.173
Inquiry into condition of sureties
RSMo 473.193
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