Probate & Estates

Venue

RSMo 473.010

Character of proceeding

RSMo 473.013

Application for letters

RSMo 473.017

If no application filed, others may request administration or probate

RSMo 473.020

Court or clerk to grant letters

RSMo 473.023

Request for special notice of hearings

RSMo 473.030

Notice of letters

RSMo 473.033

Successor need not publish notice, when

RSMo 473.037

Notice where there are no known heirs

RSMo 473.040

Will of decedent, where delivered

RSMo 473.043

Certificate of probate or rejection

RSMo 473.047

Wills, presentment for probate, time limited

RSMo 473.050

Testimony of subscribing witnesses, other evidence

RSMo 473.053

Commission for testimony of nonattendant witness

RSMo 473.057

Testimony before officer, effect

RSMo 473.060

Testimony to be recorded

RSMo 473.063

Probate of will, when

RSMo 473.065

Proof of nuncupative wills

RSMo 473.067

Heirs, time limits to establish interest in estate

RSMo 473.070

Proof required for probate and grant of administration

RSMo 473.073

Proceedings reopened, when

RSMo 473.077

Certificate of probate, contents

RSMo 473.080

Probate of portion of will

RSMo 473.081

Will binding, when

RSMo 473.083

Compromise of controversy as to probate, when binding

RSMo 473.084

Court approval of compromise, procedure for securing

RSMo 473.085

Will not effective until probated

RSMo 473.087

Refusal of letters

RSMo 473.090

Clerk's duties as to certain forms

RSMo 473.091

Court may order administration previously commenced pursuant to guardianship law, dispensed with, when

RSMo 473.092

Apportionment of property between surviving spouse and children

RSMo 473.095

Small estate

RSMo 473.097

Effect of acquittances by distributees of small estate

RSMo 473.100

Small estate appraised, when

RSMo 473.107

Persons entitled to letters

RSMo 473.110

Letters granted to others, when

RSMo 473.113

Persons and corporations disqualified as personal representative

RSMo 473.117

Form of letters testamentary

RSMo 473.120

Form of letters of administration

RSMo 473.123

Letters c.t.a. and d.b.n., form

RSMo 473.127

Letters or copies, evidence

RSMo 473.130

Administrator during minority or absence

RSMo 473.133

Administrator pending contest, appointed when

RSMo 473.137

Resignation by executor or administrator, procedure, effect

RSMo 473.139

Removal of personal representative

RSMo 473.140

Revocation of letters on finding will

RSMo 473.143

Administrator d.b.n., when appointed

RSMo 473.147

Remaining executor or administrator to continue

RSMo 473.150

Compensation of personal representatives, accountants and attorneys

RSMo 473.153

Compensation of accountants and attorneys (first class counties and St. Louis City)

RSMo 473.155

Bond of personal representative

RSMo 473.157

Bond not required, when

RSMo 473.160

Agreements with surety as to deposit of assets

RSMo 473.163

Execution of bond

RSMo 473.167

Obligees of bond

RSMo 473.170

Bond of joint executors or administrators

RSMo 473.173

Affidavit of personal sureties

RSMo 473.177

Persons not acceptable as sureties

RSMo 473.180

Approval of bond

RSMo 473.183

Bond valid though rejected

RSMo 473.187

Sufficiency of bond to be shown on settlements

RSMo 473.190

Inquiry into condition of sureties

RSMo 473.193

Court may require, increase or decrease bond, when

RSMo 473.197

Letters revoked on failure to give bond

RSMo 473.200

Effect of new bond

RSMo 473.203

Execution of bond deemed appearance by surety

RSMo 473.207

Successor may sue on bond

RSMo 473.210

Limitations on suits

RSMo 473.213

Action on bond generally

RSMo 473.217

Inventory and appraisement

RSMo 473.220

Settlement

RSMo 473.223

Security

RSMo 473.227

Citation of partner

RSMo 473.230

Inventory and appraisement

RSMo 473.233

Affidavit to inventory

RSMo 473.237

Additional inventory

RSMo 473.240

Compensation of appraisers

RSMo 473.243

Debt of executor not discharged

RSMo 473.247

Debt of administrator, assets

RSMo 473.250

Inventory as evidence

RSMo 473.253

Devolution of estate at death

RSMo 473.260

Possession of assets

RSMo 473.263

Assets for payment of claims

RSMo 473.267

Collection of debts, prosecution and defense of suits

RSMo 473.270

Actions instituted by or against decedent, duties

RSMo 473.273

Compromise of debts due estate

RSMo 473.277

Purchase at foreclosure of mortgage held by estate

RSMo 473.280

Title to real estate, how taken on such purchase

RSMo 473.283

Encumbered property to be redeemed, when

RSMo 473.287

Payment of debt of decedent secured by property of another

RSMo 473.290

Disposition of valueless or encumbered property

RSMo 473.293

Expenditures for preservation of property

RSMo 473.297

Continuation of business of decedent

RSMo 473.300

Specific execution of contract of decedent

RSMo 473.303

Notice

RSMo 473.307

Specific execution of contract of decedent, court order

RSMo 473.310

Action for specific performance

RSMo 473.313

Completion of contracts to purchase property

RSMo 473.317

Interest may be sold, when

RSMo 473.320

Interest relinquished to vendor, when

RSMo 473.323

Procedure in case of sale of school lands

RSMo 473.327

Conveyances, how made

RSMo 473.330

Investment of liquid assets

RSMo 473.333

Bank deposits

RSMo 473.337

Discovery of assets, procedure for

RSMo 473.340

Limitations on filing of claims

RSMo 473.360

Suits pending at decedent's death deemed duly filed, when

RSMo 473.363

Actions commenced after decedent's death deemed filed, when

RSMo 473.367

Establishment of claim by judgment

RSMo 473.370

Claims, form and verification

RSMo 473.380

Claims not due, proceedings

RSMo 473.383

Secured claims

RSMo 473.387

Contingent claims

RSMo 473.390

Collection of contingent claims from distributees

RSMo 473.393

Classification of claims and statutory allowances

RSMo 473.397

Recovery of public assistance funds from recipient's estate, when authorized

RSMo 473.398

Definitions

RSMo 473.399

Allowance of claims

RSMo 473.403

Defenses against claims

RSMo 473.407

Offsets or counterclaims

RSMo 473.410

Hearing and disposition of claims

RSMo 473.413

Claim of personal representative

RSMo 473.423

Compromise of claims against estate

RSMo 473.427

Payments of claims and statutory allowances in order of classification

RSMo 473.430

Payment of claims not required prior to six months after first publication

RSMo 473.433

Extension or renewal of encumbrances of assets

RSMo 473.437

Enforcement of judgment, attachment or execution liens which attached prior to decedent's death

RSMo 473.440

Proceedings where real estate has been sold under junior judgment

RSMo 473.443

Limitations on filing claims

RSMo 473.444

Sale of property under power in will

RSMo 473.457

Purposes for which property may be sold, mortgaged, leased or exchanged

RSMo 473.460

No known heirs, property to be sold

RSMo 473.463

Reservation of property under direction of will

RSMo 473.467

Heirs may give bond and prevent sale

RSMo 473.470

Terms of sale

RSMo 473.473

Executor or administrator not to purchase, exception

RSMo 473.477

Validity of proceedings

RSMo 473.480

Sales of perishable property

RSMo 473.483

Sale, mortgage or lease of personal property

RSMo 473.487

Sale of real estate on court's motion, when

RSMo 473.490

Petition to sell, mortgage or lease real estate

RSMo 473.493

Creditor or other person may file petition, when

RSMo 473.497

Order for sale, mortgage or lease of property, content

RSMo 473.500

Notice of public sale of real estate

RSMo 473.507

Public sale of real estate, where made, adjournment

RSMo 473.510

Report of sale

RSMo 473.513

New sale ordered, when

RSMo 473.517

Conveyance executed, contents

RSMo 473.520

Execution of conveyance or lease where personal representative resigns, dies or has letter revoked

RSMo 473.523

Taxes not liens in hands of transferee

RSMo 473.527

Brokers', abstracting, and auctioneers' fees

RSMo 473.530

Platting of real estate

RSMo 473.533

Exchange of property

RSMo 473.537

Settlements required, when

RSMo 473.540

Settlements, contents

RSMo 473.543

Interest to be accounted for

RSMo 473.550

Settlement docket, contents

RSMo 473.553

Notice of time for settlement

RSMo 473.557

Failure to file settlement, citation

RSMo 473.560

Settlement after citation, penalty

RSMo 473.563

Failure to settle after citation, letters revoked

RSMo 473.567

Settlement, payment of claims

RSMo 473.570

Creditor may have execution, when

RSMo 473.573

Scire facias against sureties, when

RSMo 473.577

Proceedings on scire facias

RSMo 473.580

Petition for final settlement and distribution

RSMo 473.583

Notice of final settlement

RSMo 473.587

Objections to settlement, when filed

RSMo 473.590

Credit for uncollectible debts shown in inventory

RSMo 473.593

Conclusiveness of order approving final settlement

RSMo 473.597

Accounting for assets received and disbursed after final settlement

RSMo 473.600

Settlement on death, resignation, or removal of personal representative

RSMo 473.603

Proceedings to compel settlement

RSMo 473.607

Distribution, when required

RSMo 473.610

Partial distribution

RSMo 473.613

Decree of final distribution

RSMo 473.617

Notice to judgment creditors of distribution

RSMo 473.618

Order in which assets are appropriated

RSMo 473.620

Contribution between devisees

RSMo 473.623

Advancements to be determined

RSMo 473.627

Right of retainer

RSMo 473.630

Interest on general legacies

RSMo 473.633

Distributees to refund, when

RSMo 473.637

Partition of personal property in kind

RSMo 473.640

Property sold to effect partition, when

RSMo 473.643

Notice of application for partition

RSMo 473.647

Distributee may credit share against purchase price, when

RSMo 473.650

Proceedings to compel distribution

RSMo 473.653

Distribution

RSMo 473.657

Discharge of personal representative

RSMo 473.660

No administration within one year after death and no will probated, interested party may petition

RSMo 473.663

Definitions

RSMo 473.665

Administration of estate of nonresident decedent as original proceeding

RSMo 473.668

Jurisdiction of property

RSMo 473.671

Applicability of law to estate of nonresident decedent

RSMo 473.675

Filing of copy of appointment of domiciliary foreign personal representative, when

RSMo 473.676

Domiciliary foreign personal representative, powers, duties and obligations

RSMo 473.677

Power of domiciliary foreign personal representative, when executed

RSMo 473.678

Priority of personal representative appointed by court of decedent's domicile

RSMo 473.682

Foreign personal representative subject to jurisdiction of courts of state, when

RSMo 473.685

Foreign personal representative also subject to court's jurisdiction to same extent as decedent prior to death

RSMo 473.687

Service of process on foreign personal representative, how made

RSMo 473.689

Debtor or custodian may pay or deliver personal property to foreign representative, when

RSMo 473.691

Adjudication against any personal representative of estate binding on local personal representative

RSMo 473.692

Effect of law on reciprocal corporate fiduciaries law

RSMo 473.694

Letters of administration for persons absent for five or more years

RSMo 473.697

Who may testify

RSMo 473.700

Publication of finding

RSMo 473.703

Issuance of letters, when

RSMo 473.707

Revocation of letters, when

RSMo 473.710

Distributees to give bond before receiving estate

RSMo 473.713

Supposed decedent substituted for administrator, when

RSMo 473.717

Payment of costs

RSMo 473.720

Public administrators

RSMo 473.730

Certificate and oath

RSMo 473.733

Administrators to have separate offices

RSMo 473.737

Compensation for attendance at training session, certain public administrators, expenses shall be reimbursed, when (certain counties of the first classification)

RSMo 473.739

Compensation, Boone and Clay counties

RSMo 473.740

County governing body may authorize additional compensation, when

RSMo 473.741

Salary schedule for public administrators, certain counties

RSMo 473.742

Duty of public administrator to take charge of estates, when

RSMo 473.743

Unenforceability of certain contract provisions requiring a public administrator to be personally responsible for debt or account of a ward or protectee

RSMo 473.748

Powers and duties under administration law

RSMo 473.750

Notice of administration, when and how given

RSMo 473.753

Civil officers to inform public administrator as to property, when

RSMo 473.757

Shall prosecute necessary suits

RSMo 473.760

Court may order public administrator to account to successor, when

RSMo 473.763

Public administrator, duties after expiration of term

RSMo 473.767

Deputies, appointment, tenure, compensation, powers (first classification counties)

RSMo 473.770

Deputies, appointment in all counties but counties of the first classification

RSMo 473.771

Public administrator and sureties liable for acts of deputies

RSMo 473.773

Staff to be deemed county employees

RSMo 473.775

Independent administration, when

RSMo 473.780

Notice of independent administration, contents

RSMo 473.783

Duties of personal representative in independent administration

RSMo 473.787

Inventory of property by independent personal representative

RSMo 473.793

Independent personal representative may employ appraisers, attorney, accountant or tax specialist

RSMo 473.797

Supplementary inventory, when required

RSMo 473.800

Independent personal representative's right to decedent's property

RSMo 473.803

Powers and duties of independent personal representative

RSMo 473.810

Dealing in good faith for value with independent representative protected

RSMo 473.811

Liability of personal representative

RSMo 473.820

Compensation of independent personal representative and attorney

RSMo 473.823

Review of compensation of independent personal representative and of employment and compensation of others, when

RSMo 473.827

Court may restrain personal representative, when

RSMo 473.830

Revocation of independent administration, when

RSMo 473.833

Settlement of estate, when

RSMo 473.837

Completion of administration

RSMo 473.840

Time for complete settlement or filing of statement of account

RSMo 473.843

Distribution in kind

RSMo 473.844

Interest of purchaser for value from, or lender to, distributee of property protected

RSMo 473.845