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2005 Missouri Chapter 474 — Probate Code--Intestate Succession and Wills
- § 474.010. — General rules of descent.
- § 474.015. — Failure to survive decedent by 120 hours deemed predecease of decedent --consequences.
- § 474.020. — Lineals take per capita and per stirpes, when.
- § 474.030. — Partial intestacy.
- § 474.040. — Collaterals of half blood inherit, how.
- § 474.050. — Posthumous children to inherit.
- § 474.060. — Determination of relationship of parent and child--adopted person is child of adopting parent, exception--illegitimate child, relationship determined.
- § 474.070. — Legitimation by marriage.
- § 474.080. — Issue of void or dissolved marriage, legitimate.
- § 474.090. — Advancements counted against share, when--evaluation.
- § 474.100. — Alienage no bar to descent.
- § 474.110. — Curtesy and dower abolished.
- § 474.120. — Inheritance and statutory rights deemed waived, when.
- § 474.130. — Estate conveyed determines on failure of contractual bar.
- § 474.140. — Inheritance and statutory rights barred on misconduct of spouse.
- § 474.150. — Gifts in fraud of marital rights--presumptions on conveyances.
- § 474.155. — Contract to make will or devise, revoke or not revoke will or devise, or to die intestate, how established.
- § 474.160. — Election by surviving spouse to take against will, effect.
- § 474.163. — Valuation of estate, how determined.
- § 474.170. — Notice of right to elect.
- § 474.180. — Time for making of election.
- § 474.190. — Form of election, filing.
- § 474.200. — Right of election personal to surviving spouse.
- § 474.220. — Waiver of right to elect.
- § 474.230. — Effect of failure to elect to take against will.
- § 474.235. — Share of omitted spouse.
- § 474.240. — Share of omitted children, how determined.
- § 474.250. — Exempt property of surviving spouse or minor children.
- § 474.260. — One year support allowance, property in lieu thereof--allowance exempt from all claims.
- § 474.270. — Exempt property applied for, when.
- § 474.280. — Proceeds of sale of exempt property paid over, when.
- § 474.290. — Homestead allowance--partition of real estate selected, procedure --waiver.
- § 474.293. — Provision of family allowance by independent personal representative --limitations--relief by court.
- § 474.300. — Effect of death of spouse or child or marriage of minor on family and homestead allowances.
- § 474.310. — Who may make will.
- § 474.320. — Will form, execution, attestation.
- § 474.330. — Who may witness will--effect of interest in will.
- § 474.333. — Will may provide for disposal of personal property by separate list.
- § 474.337. — Written will self-proved, how.
- § 474.340. — Nuncupative wills.
- § 474.350. — Revocation of nuncupative will.
- § 474.360. — Written will valid if executed in compliance with law.
- § 474.370. — Foreign wills, recorded when, evidence.
- § 474.380. — Probate of foreign wills.
- § 474.382. — Wills and trusts, English translation required, costs.
- § 474.390. — Contest of foreign will.
- § 474.400. — Revocation of wills.
- § 474.410. — Revocation of subsequent will also revokes first will--exception.
- § 474.420. — Change in circumstances--divorce.
- § 474.425. — Property given by testator during life treated as satisfaction of devise, when--valuation.
- § 474.430. — Court to conform to directions of will.
- § 474.435. — Class gift terminology includes certain persons and relationships, how determined.
- § 474.440. — Bond to convey does not revoke devise.
- § 474.450. — Encumbrance does not revoke devise--exoneration, when.
- § 474.455. — Devisee who does not survive testator by 120 hours treated as predeceasing testator--exceptions.
- § 474.460. — Testator surviving devisee, effect.
- § 474.463. — Exchange of securities not to adeem specific legacy.
- § 474.465. — Failure of devise to become part of residue.
- § 474.470. — Rule in Shelley's case abolished, effect.
- § 474.480. — Devise deemed to convey fee simple, when.
- § 474.500. — Wills of land to be recorded, where.
- § 474.510. — Deposit of will in court in testator's lifetime.
- § 474.520. — Construction of will.
- § 474.530. — Wills heretofore probated, effect--evidence.
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