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RSMo 474.270effective 28 Aug 1957

Exempt property applied for, when

In plain English

When someone dies, their surviving spouse or the person taking care of their unmarried minor children can ask for certain protected property from the estate. They need to ask for it before it gets handed out or sold. Once they receive that property, it cannot be taken away to pay off debts the deceased person owed.

Word-for-word law

474.270. applied for, when. — The or other of unmarried shall apply for the property named in section 474.250 before the same is or sold, but the property so delivered shall in no case be for the payment of the .

(RSMo 1939 § 108, A.L. 1955 p. 385 § 136, A.L. 1957 p. 829)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 109; 1919 § 108; 1909 § 117

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