A judge can look into whether the people who backed a promise (bond) for someone managing a dead person's estate are still reliable. If the judge thinks a backer has died, moved away, or can't pay their debts — or that the estate manager is mishandling money — the judge can hold a hearing. After that hearing, the judge can require the estate manager to get a new bond.
473.193. Inquiry into condition of — for new . — If the judge has to believe that a on the bond of any or has died, from the state or is or likely to become or that the on the bond is likely to become insolvent or is wasting the or that the bond was not taken according to law, he at any time, either on his own or on the motion of an , including a surety, may set a time and place for examination into the matters and shall give notice thereof to the principal in the bond. The court, after such , may direct the executor or administrator to give another bond.
(RSMo 1939 §§ 27, 28, 29, 32, A.L. 1955 p. 385 § 85)
Prior revisions: 1929 §§ 27, 28, 29, 32; 1919 §§ 26, 27, 28, 31; 1909 §§ 34, 35, 36, 39
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