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2019 Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXXI - Trusts and Estates of Decedents and Persons Under Disability
Chapter 469 - Disclaimers of Property
Section 469.600 Doctrine of worthier title and Rule in Bingham's case abolished, effect of language describing beneficiaries.
Universal Citation: MO Rev Stat § 469.600 (2019)
Effective 28 Aug 2006
469.600. Doctrine of worthier title and Rule in Bingham's case abolished, effect of language describing beneficiaries. — The doctrine of worthier title and the Rule in Bingham's case is abolished as a rule of law and as a rule of construction. Language in a governing instrument describing the beneficiaries of a disposition as the transferor's "heirs", "heirs at law", "next of kin", "distributees", "relatives", or "family", or language of similar import does not create or presumptively create a reversionary interest in the transferor.
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(L. 2006 S.B. 892)
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