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Chapter 473 Probate Code--Administration of Decedents' Estates

• 473.010. Venue.
• 473.013. Character of proceeding--jurisdiction of court.
• 473.017. Application for letters--content.
• 473.020. If no application filed, others may request administration or probate--petition, form, contents--hearing, notice, orders.
• 473.023. Court or clerk to grant letters.
• 473.030. Request for special notice of hearings.
• 473.033. Notice of letters--duty of clerk--publication--form.
• 473.037. Successor need not publish notice, when.
• 473.040. Notice where there are no known heirs.
• 473.043. Will of decedent, where delivered--wills found in safe deposit boxes, how delivered--refusal to deliver, how handled.
• 473.047. Certificate of probate or rejection.
• 473.050. Wills, presentment for probate, time limited--presented, defined.
• 473.053. Testimony of subscribing witnesses, other evidence.
• 473.057. Commission for testimony of nonattendant witness.
• 473.060. Testimony before officer, effect.
• 473.063. Testimony to be recorded--record as evidence.
• 473.065. Probate of will, when--procedure for contest.
• 473.067. Proof of nuncupative wills.
• 473.070. Heirs, time limits to establish interest in estate--posthumous heirs in gestation, mother has right to file action--time limitations.
• 473.073. Proof required for probate and grant of administration.
• 473.077. Proceedings reopened, when.
• 473.080. Certificate of probate, contents--evidence.
• 473.081. Probate of portion of will.
• 473.083. Will binding, when--contest of will, when, procedure.
• 473.084. Compromise of controversy as to probate, when binding.
• 473.085. Court approval of compromise, procedure for securing.
• 473.087. Will not effective until probated.
• 473.090. Refusal of letters.
• 473.091. Clerk's duties as to certain forms--not practice of law.
• 473.092. Court may order administration previously commenced pursuant to guardianship law, dispensed with, when.
• 473.095. Apportionment of property between surviving spouse and children.
• 473.097. Small estate--distribution of assets without letters, when--affidavit--procedure--fee.
• 473.100. Effect of acquittances by distributees of small estate.
• 473.107. Small estate appraised, when.
• 473.110. Persons entitled to letters.
• 473.113. Letters granted to others, when.
• 473.117. Persons and corporations disqualified as personal representative--designation required--service of process, how made.
• 473.120. Form of letters testamentary.
• 473.123. Form of letters of administration.
• 473.127. Letters c.t.a. and d.b.n., form.
• 473.130. Letters or copies, evidence.
• 473.133. Administrator during minority or absence.
• 473.137. Administrator pending contest, appointed when--duties.
• 473.139. Resignation by executor or administrator, procedure, effect.
• 473.140. Removal of personal representative.
• 473.143. Revocation of letters on finding will.
• 473.147. Administrator d.b.n., when appointed.
• 473.150. Remaining executor or administrator to continue.
• 473.153. Compensation of personal representatives, accountants and attorneys.
• 473.155. Compensation of accountants and attorneys (first class counties and St. Louis City).
• 473.157. Bond of personal representative--conditions of bond.
• 473.160. Bond not required, when.
• 473.163. Agreements with surety as to deposit of assets.
• 473.167. Execution of bond.
• 473.170. Obligees of bond--liability of surety.
• 473.173. Bond of joint executors or administrators.
• 473.177. Affidavit of personal sureties.
• 473.180. Persons not acceptable as sureties.
• 473.183. Approval of bond.
• 473.187. Bond valid though rejected.
• 473.190. Sufficiency of bond to be shown on settlements.
• 473.193. Inquiry into condition of sureties--order for new bond.
• 473.197. Court may require, increase or decrease bond, when.
• 473.200. Letters revoked on failure to give bond.
• 473.203. Effect of new bond.
• 473.207. Execution of bond deemed appearance by surety--procedure on breach of obligation of bond.
• 473.210. Successor may sue on bond.
• 473.213. Limitations on suits.
• 473.217. Action on bond generally.
• 473.220. Inventory and appraisement.
• 473.223. Settlement.
• 473.227. Security.
• 473.230. Citation of partner.
• 473.233. Inventory and appraisement--classification of property.
• 473.237. Affidavit to inventory.
• 473.240. Additional inventory.
• 473.243. Compensation of appraisers.
• 473.247. Debt of executor not discharged.
• 473.250. Debt of administrator, assets.
• 473.253. Inventory as evidence.
• 473.260. Devolution of estate at death.
• 473.263. Possession of assets.
• 473.267. Assets for payment of claims.
• 473.270. Collection of debts, prosecution and defense of suits.
• 473.273. Actions instituted by or against decedent, duties.
• 473.277. Compromise of debts due estate.
• 473.280. Purchase at foreclosure of mortgage held by estate.
• 473.283. Title to real estate, how taken on such purchase--how administered.
• 473.287. Encumbered property to be redeemed, when.
• 473.290. Payment of debt of decedent secured by property of another--procedure.
• 473.293. Disposition of valueless or encumbered property.
• 473.297. Expenditures for preservation of property.
• 473.300. Continuation of business of decedent.
• 473.303. Specific execution of contract of decedent--petition.
• 473.307. Notice--hearing--intervention.
• 473.310. Specific execution of contract of decedent, court order--warranties--conveyance or lease under will.
• 473.313. Action for specific performance--proceedings in probate division of circuit court.
• 473.317. Completion of contracts to purchase property--exercise of options.
• 473.320. Interest may be sold, when.
• 473.323. Interest relinquished to vendor, when.
• 473.327. Procedure in case of sale of school lands.
• 473.330. Conveyances, how made--procedure.
• 473.333. Investment of liquid assets.
• 473.337. Bank deposits.
• 473.340. Discovery of assets, procedure for.
• 473.360. Limitations on filing of claims--when claims barred.
• 473.363. Suits pending at decedent's death deemed duly filed, when--personal representative to list pending actions--period of nonclaim not affected.
• 473.367. Actions commenced after decedent's death deemed filed, when.
• 473.370. Establishment of claim by judgment--judgment deemed filed, when.
• 473.380. Claims, form and verification--claim to be established by evidence.
• 473.383. Claims not due, proceedings.
• 473.387. Secured claims--surrender of security--payment.
• 473.390. Contingent claims.
• 473.393. Collection of contingent claims from distributees--limitations--contribution.
• 473.397. Classification of claims and statutory allowances.
• 473.398. Recovery of public assistance funds from recipient's estate, when authorized--procedure--exceptions.
• 473.399. Definitions--obligation to repay assistance, claim against estate, when--defenses, setoff--exceptions.
• 473.403. Allowance of claims--court's duties--allowance by personal representative.
• 473.407. Defenses against claims.
• 473.410. Offsets or counterclaims--personal representative to list--how asserted--procedure--judgment.
• 473.413. Hearing and disposition of claims--notice.
• 473.423. Claim of personal representative--how established--procedure--fee.
• 473.427. Compromise of claims against estate.
• 473.430. Payments of claims and statutory allowances in order of classification--proportional payment--priority.
• 473.433. Payment of claims not required prior to six months after first publication--payments after six months--insufficient funds--payment with consent of all parties--no just claim to be barred, whe
• 473.437. Extension or renewal of encumbrances of assets.
• 473.440. Enforcement of judgment, attachment or execution liens which attached prior to decedent's death.
• 473.443. Proceedings where real estate has been sold under junior judgment.
• 473.444. Limitations on filing claims--when claims barred.
• 473.457. Sale of property under power in will.
• 473.460. Purposes for which property may be sold, mortgaged, leased or exchanged.
• 473.463. No known heirs, property to be sold.
• 473.467. Reservation of property under direction of will--specific devises reserved.
• 473.470. Heirs may give bond and prevent sale.
• 473.473. Terms of sale.
• 473.477. Executor or administrator not to purchase, exception.
• 473.480. Validity of proceedings.
• 473.483. Sales of perishable property.
• 473.487. Sale, mortgage or lease of personal property.
• 473.490. Sale of real estate on court's motion, when.
• 473.493. Petition to sell, mortgage or lease real estate--notice--order.
• 473.497. Creditor or other person may file petition, when.
• 473.500. Order for sale, mortgage or lease of property, content--duration--reappraisal, when.
• 473.507. Notice of public sale of real estate.
• 473.510. Public sale of real estate, where made, adjournment.
• 473.513. Report of sale--objections--approval.
• 473.517. New sale ordered, when.
• 473.520. Conveyance executed, contents--effect.
• 473.523. Execution of conveyance or lease where personal representative resigns, dies or has letter revoked.
• 473.527. Taxes not liens in hands of transferee.
• 473.530. Brokers', abstracting, and auctioneers' fees.
• 473.533. Platting of real estate.
• 473.537. Exchange of property.
• 473.540. Settlements required, when.
• 473.543. Settlements, contents--vouchers for disbursement--evidence, checks and drafts.
• 473.550. Interest to be accounted for.
• 473.553. Settlement docket, contents.
• 473.557. Notice of time for settlement.
• 473.560. Failure to file settlement, citation.
• 473.563. Settlement after citation, penalty.
• 473.567. Failure to settle after citation, letters revoked.
• 473.570. Settlement, payment of claims--apportionment where assets insufficient.
• 473.573. Creditor may have execution, when.
• 473.577. Scire facias against sureties, when.
• 473.580. Proceedings on scire facias.
• 473.583. Petition for final settlement and distribution.
• 473.587. Notice of final settlement.
• 473.590. Objections to settlement, when filed--form--hearing--approval.
• 473.593. Credit for uncollectible debts shown in inventory.
• 473.597. Conclusiveness of order approving final settlement.
• 473.600. Accounting for assets received and disbursed after final settlement.
• 473.603. Settlement on death, resignation, or removal of personal representative.
• 473.607. Proceedings to compel settlement--judgment, enforcement.
• 473.610. Distribution, when required.
• 473.613. Partial distribution.
• 473.617. Decree of final distribution.
• 473.618. Notice to judgment creditors of distribution--contents of request.
• 473.620. Order in which assets are appropriated--abatement.
• 473.623. Contribution between devisees.
• 473.627. Advancements to be determined.
• 473.630. Right of retainer.
• 473.633. Interest on general legacies.
• 473.637. Distributees to refund, when--judgment.
• 473.640. Partition of personal property in kind.
• 473.643. Property sold to effect partition, when.
• 473.647. Notice of application for partition.
• 473.650. Distributee may credit share against purchase price, when.
• 473.653. Proceedings to compel distribution.
• 473.657. Distribution.
• 473.660. Discharge of personal representative.
• 473.663. No administration within one year after death and no will probated, interested party may petition--contents of petition--notice.
• 473.665. Definitions.
• 473.668. Administration of estate of nonresident decedent as original proceeding.
• 473.671. Jurisdiction of property--situs of intangibles.
• 473.675. Applicability of law to estate of nonresident decedent--exceptions.
• 473.676. Filing of copy of appointment of domiciliary foreign personal representative, when.
• 473.677. Domiciliary foreign personal representative, powers, duties and obligations.
• 473.678. Power of domiciliary foreign personal representative, when executed--termination of powers--substitution of local personal representative, when.
• 473.682. Priority of personal representative appointed by court of decedent's domicile--exceptions.
• 473.685. Foreign personal representative subject to jurisdiction of courts of state, when.
• 473.687. Foreign personal representative also subject to court's jurisdiction to same extent as decedent prior to death.
• 473.689. Service of process on foreign personal representative, how made.
• 473.691. Debtor or custodian may pay or deliver personal property to foreign representative, when.
• 473.692. Adjudication against any personal representative of estate binding on local personal representative.
• 473.694. Effect of law on reciprocal corporate fiduciaries law.
• 473.697. Letters of administration for persons absent for five or more years--application--notice--hearing.
• 473.700. Who may testify.
• 473.703. Publication of finding--time for rebuttal.
• 473.707. Issuance of letters, when.
• 473.710. Revocation of letters, when--effect--procedure.
• 473.713. Distributees to give bond before receiving estate.
• 473.717. Supposed decedent substituted for administrator, when--effect on actions, judgments.
• 473.720. Payment of costs.
• 473.730. Public administrators--qualifications--election--oath--bond--public administrator deemed public office, duties--salaried public administrators deemed county officials.
• 473.733. Certificate and oath--bond, how sued on.
• 473.737. Administrators to have separate offices--St. Louis administrator in civil courts building--certain public administrators to have secretaries--clerical personnel to be provided, when.
• 473.739. Compensation for attendance at training session, certain public administrators, expenses shall be reimbursed, when (certain noncharter counties of the first classification).
• 473.740. Compensation, Boone and Clay counties--removal from office--public administrator's fees paid to county, when--public administrator's salary in lieu of fees, when.
• 473.741. County governing body may authorize additional compensation, when--maximum allowed--additional compensation to terminate, when (certain first class counties).
• 473.742. Salary schedule for public administrators, certain counties--administrator to choose salary or fee collection--certain administrators may join LAGERS.
• 473.743. Duty of public administrator to take charge of estates, when.
• 473.747. Public administrator shall be ex officio public conservator.
• 473.748. Unenforceability of certain contract provisions requiring a public administrator to be personally responsible for debt or account of a ward or protectee.
• 473.750. Powers and duties under administration law.
• 473.753. Notice of administration, when and how given--penalty for failure.
• 473.757. Civil officers to inform public administrator as to property, when.
• 473.760. Shall prosecute necessary suits.
• 473.763. Court may order public administrator to account to successor, when.
• 473.767. Public administrator, duties after expiration of term--duties prior to expiration of term, certain counties.
• 473.770. Deputies, appointment, tenure, compensation, powers (first classification counties)--delegation of duties, certain counties.
• 473.771. Deputies, appointment in all counties but counties of the first classification--tenure--compensation--powers--delegation to deputies.
• 473.773. Public administrator and sureties liable for acts of deputies.
• 473.775. Staff to be deemed county employees--full-time staff may be provided for certain administrators.
• 473.780. Independent administration, when.
• 473.783. Notice of independent administration, contents.
• 473.787. Duties of personal representative in independent administration--attorney required, when.
• 473.793. Inventory of property by independent personal representative.
• 473.797. Independent personal representative may employ appraisers, attorney, accountant or tax specialist.
• 473.800. Supplementary inventory, when required--copies to interested persons.
• 473.803. Independent personal representative's right to decedent's property--exceptions--duties.
• 473.810. Powers and duties of independent personal representative.
• 473.811. Dealing in good faith for value with independent representative protected--no duty to inquire--liability of independent personal representative.
• 473.820. Liability of personal representative.
• 473.823. Compensation of independent personal representative and attorney.
• 473.827. Review of compensation of independent personal representative and of employment and compensation of others, when--refunds, when.
• 473.830. Court may restrain personal representative, when--petition--hearing--procedure.
• 473.833. Revocation of independent administration, when--petition--hearing--orders of court.
• 473.837. Settlement of estate, when--notice--distribution.
• 473.840. Completion of administration--discharge of independent personal representative, when--procedures--objections, time limitation, procedure.
• 473.843. Time for complete settlement or filing of statement of account--extension.
• 473.844. Distribution in kind--deeds, evidentiary effect--improper distribution, liability of distributee, exceptions.
• 473.845. Interest of purchaser for value from, or lender to, distributee of property protected.