2005 Missouri Revised Statutes - § 475.060. — Application for guardianship--petition for guardianship may be limited to school registration or insurance coverage.

475.060. Any person may file a petition for the appointment of himself or some other qualified person as guardian of a minor or guardian of an incapacitated person. Such petition shall state:

(1) The name, age, domicile, actual place of residence and post office address of the minor or incapacitated person if known and if any of these facts is unknown, the efforts made to ascertain that fact;

(2) The estimated value of his real and personal property;

(3) If the minor or incapacitated person has no domicile or place of residence in this state, the county in which the property or major part thereof of the minor or incapacitated person is located;

(4) The name and address of the parents of the minor or incapacitated person and whether they are living or dead;

(5) The name and address of the spouse, and the names, ages and addresses of all living children of the minor or incapacitated person;

(6) The name and address of the person having custody of the person of the minor or incapacitated person;

(7) The name and address of any guardian of the person or conservator of the estate of the minor or incapacitated person appointed in this or any other state;

(8) If appointment is sought for a natural person, other than the public administrator, the names and addresses of wards and disabled persons for whom such person is already guardian or conservator;

(9) In the case of an incapacitated person, the fact that the person for whom guardianship is sought is unable by reason of some specified physical or mental condition to receive and evaluate information or to communicate decisions to such an extent that the person lacks capacity to meet essential requirements for food, clothing, shelter, safety or other care such that serious physical injury, illness or disease is likely to occur;

(10) The reasons why the appointment of a guardian is sought;

(11) A petition for the appointment of a guardian of a minor may be filed for the sole and specific purpose of school registration or medical insurance coverage. Such a petition shall clearly set out this limited request and shall not be combined with a petition for conservatorship.

(RSMo 1939 §§ 377, 447, A.L. 1955 p. 385 § 293, A.L. 1983 S.B. 44 & 45, A.L. 2000 S.B. 944)

Prior revisions: 1929 §§ 377, 448; 1919 §§ 373, 444; 1909 §§ 405, 474

(1957) Where application for guardianship of minors did not give the domicile of the minors or of their parents, nor the names and addresses of the parents or spouses of the minors nor state who had custody of the minors, it failed to confer jurisdiction on the court to appoint the public administrator as guardian. In re Dugan (A.), 309 S.W.2d 145.