2011 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE XXXI TRUSTS AND ESTATES OF DECEDENTS AND PERSONS UNDER DISABILITY
Chapter 475 Probate Code--Guardianship
Section 475.140. Notice of conservatorship of disabled persons.

475.140. 1. The clerk, as soon as letters of conservatorship of the estate of any disabled person are issued, upon the basis of a determination of disability other than minority, shall cause to be published in some newspaper a notice of the appointment of the conservator, in which shall be included a notice to creditors of the protectee to file their claims in the court or be forever barred. The notice shall be published once a week for four consecutive weeks in accordance with section 472.100. Such notice shall be in substantially the following form:

TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE ESTATE OF ..............., A DISABLED PERSON:

On the .......... day of ........., 20..., ........... was appointed conservator of the estate of .........., a person adjudicated disabled under the laws of Missouri, by the Probate Division of the Circuit Court of ......... County, Missouri. The business address of the conservator is .......... All creditors of said disabled person are notified to file their claims in the Probate Division of the Circuit Court. Date of first publication ........ ................................................................. .......................................

Clerk of the Probate Division of the Circuit Court of

............................................. County, Missouri

2. The court, in its discretion, may waive publication of notice or defer it until a definite date or until further order of the court.

3. When a limited conservator has been appointed, the notice shall so specify.

(L. 1955 p. 385 309, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 1983 S.B. 44 & 45, A.L. 1993 S.B. 88)

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