2011 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE XXXIII EVIDENCE AND LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
Chapter 490 Evidence
Section 490.620. Person, when presumed to be dead.
Person, when presumed to be dead.
490.620. If any person who shall have resided in this state goes from and does not return to this state for five successive years, he or she shall be presumed to be dead in any case wherein his or her death shall come in question, unless proof be made that he or she was alive within that time. The fact that such person was exposed to a specific peril of death due to a terrorist event may be a sufficient basis for determining at any time after such exposure that he or she died less than five years after the date his or her absence commenced.
(RSMo 1939 1873, A.L. 1982 S.B. 700 Revision, A.L. 2002 S.B. 712)Prior revisions: 1929 1709; 1919 5396; 1909 6340
CROSS REFERENCES:
Presumption of death on five years' absence, 473.697 to 473.720
Simultaneous death law, Chap. 471
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