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Timestamp: 2020-08-06 06:44:49
Document Index: 189860742

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 474', '§ 474', '§ 474', '§ 474', '§ 474', '§ 474', '§ 474', '§ 474']

Summary of Missouri's Will Requirements:
Statutes Governing Missouri's Will Requirements:
Missouri Revised Statutes, § 474.310
Will form, execution, attestation
Missouri Revised Statutes, § 474.320
Who may witness will--effect of interest in will
1. Any person competent to be a witness generally in this state may act as attesting witness to a will.
Missouri Revised Statutes, § 474.330
Will may provide for disposal of personal property by separate list
A will may refer to a written statement or list to dispose of items of tangible personal property not otherwise specifically disposed of by the will, other than money, evidences of indebtedness, documents of title, securities and property used in trade or business. To be admissible under this section as evidence of the intended disposition, the writing must either be in the handwriting of the testator or be signed by the testator, must be dated and must describe the items and the devisees with reasonable certainty. The writing may:
(1) Be referred to as one to be in existence at the time of the testator's death;
(2) Be prepared before or after the execution of the will;
(3) Be altered by the testator after its preparation; and
(4) Be a writing which has no significance apart from its effect upon the dispositions made by the will.
Missouri Revised Statutes, § 474.333
Written will self-proved, how
1. A written will may at the time of its execution, or at any subsequent date, be made self-proved, by the acknowledgment thereof by the testator and the witnesses, each made before an officer authorized to administer oaths under the laws of this state, and evidenced by the officer's certificate, under official seal, attached or annexed to the will in form and content substantially as follows:
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official seal this ............... day of ..........., 19.. .
(Signed) ........................................................ (SEAL)
2. An officer authorized to administer oaths under the laws of this state, who has no official seal, including a commissioner of deeds acting under section 486.130, RSMo, and a judge advocate or other commissioned officer of the armed forces acting under Article 136 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (United States Code, Title 10, Section 936), whether or not on active duty, section 492.070, RSMo, or an equivalent court rule, may, in lieu of affixing an official seal to his certificate, include in it a statement that he has no official seal and reciting the facts which establish his authority. Such a statement has the same effect as an official seal.
Missouri Revised Statutes, § 474.337
1. A nuncupative will may be made only by a person in imminent peril of death, whether from illness or otherwise, and shall be valid only if the testator died as a result of the impending peril, and must be:
(1) Declared to be his will by the testator before two disinterested witnesses;
(2) Reduced to writing by or under the direction of one of the witnesses within thirty days after such declaration; and
(3) Submitted for probate within six months after the death of the testator.
2. The nuncupative will may dispose of personal property only and to an aggregate value not exceeding five hundred dollars.
3. A nuncupative will neither revokes nor changes an existing written will.
Missouri Revised Statutes, § 474.340
(1) The laws of this state;
(2) The laws, as of the time of execution, of the place where the will is executed; or
(3) The laws of the place where, at the time of execution or the time of the testator's death, the testator is domiciled, has a place of abode or is a national.
Missouri Revised Statutes, § 474.360
Foreign wills, recorded when, evidence
Authenticated copies of wills, probated in another state, and the probate thereof, shall be recorded in the same manner as wills executed and proved in this state, and shall be admitted in evidence in the same manner and with like effect.
Missouri Revised Statutes, § 474.370
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