2011 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE XXXI TRUSTS AND ESTATES OF DECEDENTS AND PERSONS UNDER DISABILITY
Chapter 474 Probate Code--Intestate Succession and Wills
Section 474.460. Testator surviving devisee, effect.
Testator surviving devisee, effect.
474.460. When any estate is devised to any child, grandchild or other relative of the testator, and the devisee dies before the testator, or is treated as if he predeceased the testator, leaving lineal descendants who survive the testator by one hundred twenty hours, the descendants shall take the estate, real or personal, as the devisee would have done if he had survived the testator by one hundred twenty hours.
(RSMo 1939 528, A.L. 1955 p. 385 275, A.L. 1980 S.B. 637)Prior revisions: 1929 527; 1919 516; 1909 546
Effective 1-1-81
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