Wills & Estates
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Missouri probate law covers wills, inheritance, and estates — what happens to a person's property after they die, with or without a will. These statutes explain how estates are administered in the state.
General rules of descent
RSMo 474.010
Failure to survive decedent by 120 hours deemed predecease of decedent
RSMo 474.015
Lineals take per capita and per stirpes, when
RSMo 474.020
Partial intestacy
RSMo 474.030
Collaterals of half blood inherit, how
RSMo 474.040
Posthumous children to inherit
RSMo 474.050
Determination of relationship of parent and child
RSMo 474.060
Legitimation by marriage
RSMo 474.070
Issue of void or dissolved marriage, legitimate
RSMo 474.080
Advancements counted against share, when
RSMo 474.090
Alienage no bar to descent
RSMo 474.100
Curtesy and dower abolished
RSMo 474.110
Inheritance and statutory rights deemed waived, when
RSMo 474.120
Estate conveyed determines on failure of contractual bar
RSMo 474.130
Inheritance and statutory rights barred on misconduct of spouse
RSMo 474.140
Gifts in fraud of marital rights
RSMo 474.150
Contract to make will or devise, revoke or not revoke will or devise, or to die intestate, how established
RSMo 474.155
Election by surviving spouse to take against will, effect
RSMo 474.160
Valuation of estate, how determined
RSMo 474.163
Notice of right to elect
RSMo 474.170
Time for making of election
RSMo 474.180
Form of election, filing
RSMo 474.190
Right of election personal to surviving spouse
RSMo 474.200
Waiver of right to elect
RSMo 474.220
Effect of failure to elect to take against will
RSMo 474.230
Share of omitted spouse
RSMo 474.235
Share of omitted children, how determined
RSMo 474.240
Exempt property of surviving spouse or minor children
RSMo 474.250
One year support allowance, property in lieu thereof
RSMo 474.260
Exempt property applied for, when
RSMo 474.270
Proceeds of sale of exempt property paid over, when
RSMo 474.280
Homestead allowance
RSMo 474.290
Provision of family allowance by independent personal representative
RSMo 474.293
Effect of death of spouse or child or marriage of minor on family and homestead allowances
RSMo 474.300
Who may make will
RSMo 474.310
Will form, execution, attestation
RSMo 474.320
Who may witness will
RSMo 474.330
Will may provide for disposal of personal property by separate list
RSMo 474.333
Written will self-proved, how
RSMo 474.337
Nuncupative wills
RSMo 474.340
Revocation of nuncupative will
RSMo 474.350
Written will valid if executed in compliance with law
RSMo 474.360
Foreign wills, recorded when, evidence
RSMo 474.370
Probate of foreign wills
RSMo 474.380
Wills and trusts, English translation required, costs
RSMo 474.382
Contest of foreign will
RSMo 474.390
No-contest clauses, application of, petition may be filed
RSMo 474.395
Revocation of wills
RSMo 474.400
Revocation of subsequent will also revokes first will
RSMo 474.410
Change in circumstances
RSMo 474.420
Property given by testator during life treated as satisfaction of devise, when
RSMo 474.425
Court to conform to directions of will
RSMo 474.430
Class gift terminology includes certain persons and relationships, how determined
RSMo 474.435
Bond to convey does not revoke devise
RSMo 474.440
Encumbrance does not revoke devise
RSMo 474.450
Devisee who does not survive testator by 120 hours treated as predeceasing testator
RSMo 474.455
Testator surviving devisee, effect
RSMo 474.460
Exchange of securities not to adeem specific legacy
RSMo 474.463
Failure of devise to become part of residue
RSMo 474.465
Rule in Shelley's case abolished, effect
RSMo 474.470
Devise deemed to convey fee simple, when
RSMo 474.480
Wills of land to be recorded, where
RSMo 474.500
Deposit of will in court in testator's lifetime
RSMo 474.510
Construction of will
RSMo 474.520
Wills heretofore probated, effect
RSMo 474.530
Citation of law
RSMo 474.540
Definitions
RSMo 474.542
Electronic will valid as a will for all purposes
RSMo 474.544
Electronically executed will is an electronic will, when
RSMo 474.546
Electronic will requirements
RSMo 474.548
Self-proved electronic will, requirements
RSMo 474.550
Revocation of a previous will, when
RSMo 474.552
Disclosure of digital assets to obtain electronic will, when
RSMo 474.554
Certified paper copy of electronic will
RSMo 474.556
Need to promote uniformity of law, consideration given to
RSMo 474.558
Estate planning documents, electronic execution of
RSMo 474.560
Federal acts, effect on
RSMo 474.562
Applicability of act, when
RSMo 474.564
Estate planning document, execution of
RSMo 474.600