TITLE 12 - WILLS AND ESTATES OF DECEASED PERSONS
- Chapter 132 - General Provisions
- 132.010 - Construction of title.
- 132.025 - Definitions.
- 132.030 - “Abatement” defined.
- 132.035 - “Acknowledgment” defined.
- 132.040 - “Administrator” defined.
- 132.045 - “Agent” defined.
- 132.050 - “Beneficiary” defined.
- 132.055 - “Child” defined.
- 132.060 - “Citation” defined.
- 132.065 - “Claim” defined.
- 132.070 - “Codicil” defined.
- 132.075 - “Community property” defined.
- 132.080 - “Community property with right of survivorship” defined.
- 132.085 - “Descendant” defined.
- 132.090 - “Designation of beneficiary” defined.
- 132.095 - “Devise” defined.
- 132.100 - “Devisee” defined.
- 132.115 - “Distributee” defined.
- 132.116 - “District court” and “court” defined.
- 132.117 - “Electronic record” defined.
- 132.118 - “Electronic signature” defined.
- 132.119 - “Electronic will” defined.
- 132.120 - “Estate” defined.
- 132.125 - “Estate tax” defined.
- 132.130 - “Executor” defined.
- 132.135 - “Expenses of administration” defined.
- 132.140 - “Family allowance” defined.
- 132.145 - “Fiduciary” defined.
- 132.150 - “Gift” defined.
- 132.155 - “Governing instrument” defined.
- 132.160 - “Guardian” defined.
- 132.165 - “Heirs” defined.
- 132.170 - “Holographic will” defined.
- 132.175 - “Incapacitated person” defined.
- 132.180 - “Interest” defined.
- 132.185 - “Interested person” defined.
- 132.190 - “Intestate” defined.
- 132.195 - “Intestate estate” defined.
- 132.200 - “Inventory” defined.
- 132.205 - “Issue” defined.
- 132.210 - “Joint tenants with right of survivorship” defined.
- 132.215 - “Lease” defined.
- 132.220 - “Letters” defined.
- 132.225 - “Lien” defined.
- 132.230 - “Minor” defined.
- 132.235 - “Mortgage” defined.
- 132.240 - “Notice” defined.
- 132.245 - “Oath” defined.
- 132.250 - “Order” defined.
- 132.255 - “Parent” defined.
- 132.260 - “Person” defined.
- 132.265 - “Personal representative” defined.
- 132.270 - “Petition” defined.
- 132.275 - “Probate” defined.
- 132.280 - “Probate homestead” defined.
- 132.285 - “Property” defined.
- 132.287 - “Record” defined.
- 132.290 - “Right of representation” defined.
- 132.295 - “Security” defined.
- 132.300 - “Separate property” defined.
- 132.305 - “Settlement” defined.
- 132.310 - “Settlor” defined.
- 132.315 - “Special administrator” defined.
- 132.320 - “State” defined.
- 132.325 - “Successor personal representative” defined.
- 132.330 - “Successors” defined.
- 132.335 - “Tax” defined.
- 132.340 - “Testate estate” defined.
- 132.345 - “Testator” defined.
- 132.350 - “Trust” defined.
- 132.355 - “Trustee” defined.
- 132.360 - “Verification” defined.
- 132.365 - “Ward” and “minor ward” defined.
- 132.370 - “Will” defined.
- Chapter 133 - Wills
- Chapter 133A - International Wills (Uniform Act)
- Chapter 134 - Succession
- Chapter 135 - Simultaneous Death (Uniform Act)
- 135.010 - Short title.
- 135.020 - Insufficient evidence of survivorship.
- 135.030 - Beneficiaries of another person’s disposition of property.
- 135.040 - Joint tenants or spouses holding title to community property with right of survivorship.
- 135.050 - Insurance policies.
- 135.060 - Community property.
- 135.080 - Chapter does not apply if decedent provides otherwise.
- Chapter 136 - Probate of Wills and Petitions for Letters
- Chapter 137 - Contests of Wills
- Chapter 138 - Appointment of Personal Representatives
- 138.010 - Powers of personal representative before issuance of letters.
- 138.020 - Qualifications of executor; letters with will annexed.
- 138.040 - Executor not specifically named may be appointed.
- 138.045 - Appointment of substitute executors and coexecutors.
- 138.050 - Successor to corporate executor.
- 138.060 - Objections to appointment.
- 138.070 - Executor of deceased executor; account of deceased personal representative.
- 138.080 - Failure to appoint all named executors.
- 138.090 - Administrators with will annexed: Order of appointment.
- Chapter 139 - Appointment of Administrators
- Chapter 140 - Special Administrators
- 140.010 - Causes for appointment.
- 140.020 - Notice and order of appointment; order not appealable.
- 140.030 - Bond and oath.
- 140.040 - Powers, duties and immunity from liability for certain claims.
- 140.050 - Payment of mortgage or lien; payment of interest.
- 140.060 - Appointment pending contest of will or appeal from order; appointment before contest of will.
- 140.070 - Effect of grant of letters testamentary or letters of administration.
- Chapter 141 - Letters Generally; Changes in Administration
- Chapter 142 - Oaths and Bonds
- 142.010 - Oath or affirmation of personal representative.
- 142.020 - Requirement of bond discretionary with court; reduction of bond; proof of blocked account; additional bond; amount of bond.
- 142.030 - Nature of surety’s liability: Extent of bond.
- 142.035 - Jurisdiction of court over surety; clerk of court appointed as agent of surety; enforcement of liability of surety.
- 142.040 - Justification on oath required by surety.
- 142.050 - Hearing to determine accuracy of justification of surety; additional security.
- 142.060 - Appointment of person next entitled.
- 142.070 - Bond may be required despite provisions of will.
- 142.080 - Petition for additional security; court may require additional security; petition for increase in bond.
- 142.090 - Hearing on sufficiency: Issuance and service of citation; order.
- 142.100 - Appointment of person next in order.
- 142.130 - Petition of surety for discharge; issuance and service of citation.
- 142.140 - Revocation for failure to give new sureties.
- Chapter 143 - Powers and Duties of Personal Representatives
- 143.010 - Multiple personal representatives: Effect of absence or disability; sufficiency of acts of majority.
- 143.020 - Right to possession of decedent’s property.
- 143.030 - Duty to take possession of estate and collect debts; exception for certain assets held by guardian.
- 143.035 - Duty to use reasonable diligence; report required if estate not closed within certain times; hearing and determinations by court.
- 143.037 - Duty to close estate within 18 months after appointment; exceptions.
- 143.040 - Rights of surviving partner.
- 143.050 - Continuing business of decedent.
- 143.060 - Extent of power to sue and be sued.
- 143.065 - Statute of limitations for cause of action of decedent.
- 143.070 - Actions by personal representative for conversion or trespass.
- 143.080 - Actions against personal representative for conversion or trespass.
- 143.090 - Action on bond of former personal representative.
- 143.100 - Action for conversion before letters granted.
- 143.110 - Procedure when conversion alleged: Citation; examination; allowance of necessary expenses.
- 143.120 - Procedure when conversion alleged: Commitment for refusal to appear for examination; order requiring delivery of property to personal representative.
- 143.130 - Accounting by person holding assets of estate for personal representative; penalty for failure or refusal to comply with order.
- 143.140 - Discharging debtor of estate, compromising claims and renewing obligations: Procedure.
- 143.150 - Action to recover fraudulently conveyed property for benefit of creditors.
- 143.160 - Costs; disposal of property recovered; proceeds.
- 143.165 - Temporary order to restrain personal representative from performing administration, disbursement or distribution of estate: Issuance; hearing.
- 143.170 - Purchase of property of estate by personal representative.
- 143.180 - Power to make loans, advances of credit and other investments insured by Federal Housing Administrator; validation of loans, advances of credit and purchases of obligations made before Octob
- 143.185 - Power to invest in farm loan bonds and other obligations issued by federal land banks and banks for cooperatives.
- 143.187 - Power to hold stock in name of nominee; personal liability of personal representative.
- 143.190 - Cumulative method of service of process on personal representative; written statement containing permanent address of personal representative to be filed with clerk.
- 143.200 - Actions not to abate on death, disqualification, resignation or removal of personal representative; substitution of successor.
- Chapter 144 - Inventory and Appraisement
- 144.010 - Inventory and appraisement or record of value to be made and filed; copy mailed to interested heirs and devisees.
- 144.020 - Appraisers: When appointment authorized; compensation; record of value in lieu of appraisement.
- 144.025 - Certified public accountant or other expert in valuation: When appointment authorized; compensation.
- 144.030 - Certification of appraiser, certified public accountant or expert in valuation; form of appraisement or valuation; purchase by appraiser, certified public accountant or expert in valuation w
- 144.040 - Inventory: Contents.
- 144.050 - Claims against personal representative.
- 144.060 - Status of claim against personal representative.
- 144.070 - Oath of personal representative endorsed upon or annexed to inventory.
- 144.080 - Failure to file inventory: Revocation of letters; liability on bond.
- 144.090 - Supplemental inventory of newly discovered property.
- Chapter 145 - Summary Administration of Estates
- 145.010 - Application of chapter.
- 145.020 - Contents of petition seeking summary administration.
- 145.030 - Notice required.
- 145.040 - Conditions for ordering summary administration.
- 145.060 - Creditors’ claims: Notice, filing, approval and payment; procedure if claim of Department of Health and Human Services rejected.
- 145.070 - Sales of real property: Notice and procedure.
- 145.075 - Hearing and notices required upon filing of final account and petition for distribution.
- 145.080 - Close of administration and distribution.
- Chapter 146 - Support of Family; Small Estates
- Chapter 147 - Presentation and Payment of Claims
- Chapter 148 - Sales, Conveyances and Exchanges
- Chapter 149 - Notes, Mortgages and Leases
- Chapter 150 - Compensation and Accounting
- Chapter 151 - Adjustments; Distribution and Discharge
- Chapter 152 - Partition Before Discharge
- 152.010 - Petition for partition.
- 152.020 - Partition authorized even though portion of original share previously assigned or conveyed to others.
- 152.030 - Contents of petition; contents and service of citation.
- 152.040 - Appointment of guardians and attorneys before partition.
- 152.050 - Commissioners for partition: Appointment; warrant; oath; qualifications.
- 152.060 - Commissioners may be appointed for each county if real property in different counties.
- 152.070 - Notice of time for partition.
- 152.080 - Commissioners may take testimony.
- 152.090 - Shares set out in proportion to rights; common or undivided shares.
- 152.100 - Procedure when value of property to be divided greater than share of one party.
- 152.110 - Sale of property when it cannot be divided fairly: Rules of sale.
- 152.120 - Severance of common and undivided real property held by heirs or devisees and another person: Procedure.
- 152.130 - Commissioners may set off quality against quantity to make shares of equal value.
- 152.140 - Report of commissioners; objections to report; hearing on objections; order of confirmation.
- 152.150 - Procedure when property cannot be partitioned.
- 152.160 - Apportionment of expenses; attorney’s fees.
- Chapter 153 - Administration of Trusts; Estates for Life and Years
- 153.010 - Applicability of chapter.
- 153.020 - Court retains jurisdiction after final distribution for certain purposes.
- 153.031 - Petition by trustee or beneficiary concerning affairs of trust: Purposes of petition; contents; notice and hearing; additional relief.
- 153.041 - Accounting by trustee; service of citation.
- 153.050 - Accountings by life tenants and tenants for years.
- 153.060 - Petition for distribution of residue of trust estate, estate for life or estate for years: Notice.
- 153.070 - Expenses and compensation of trustees.
- 153.080 - Conclusiveness of order.
- 153.090 - Declination of person designated trustee: Procedure.
- 153.100 - Appointment to fill vacancy.
- Chapter 154 - Escheats
- Chapter 155 - Notices, Orders, Procedure and Appeals
- Chapter 156 - Administration of Estates of Missing Persons