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MO Rev Stat § 473.603 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trusts and Estates of Decedents and Persons Under Disability|Chapter 473 - Probate Code — Administration of Decedents' Estates|Section 473.603 - Settlement on death, resignation, or removal of personal representative.

Effective - 28 Aug 1983   473.603. Settlement on death, resignation, or removal of personal representative. — 1. If a personal representative dies, resigns, becomes legally disabled or his letters are revoked, he or his legal representatives or conservator shall file final settlement and shall account for, pay and deliver to his successor, or to the surviving or remaining personal representative all money and property of every kind, and all rights, credits, deeds, evidences of debt and such papers of every kind of the decedent, at such time and in such manner as the court orders. The final settlement may be made and approved without notice or after giving notice to the persons and in the manner directed by the court.  2. If a deceased personal representative leaves no estate subject to administration, and letters are issued to his personal representative solely for the purpose of making settlement under this section, the cost in the court proceeding in which letters are issued to the personal representative of the deceased personal representative shall be taxed in the estate of which he was personal representative; and, in the administration proceeding in the estate of the deceased personal representative there need be no publication as required by section 473.033. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 48, A.L. 1955 p. 385 § 213, A.L. 1957 p. 829, A.L. 1983 S.B. 44 & 45)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 48; 1919 § 47; 1909 § 55
MO Rev Stat § 473.607 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trusts and Estates of Decedents and Persons Under Disability|Chapter 473 - Probate Code — Administration of Decedents' Estates|Section 473.607 - Proceedings to compel settlement — judgment, enforcement.

Effective - 28 Aug 1983   473.607. Proceedings to compel settlement — judgment, enforcement. — 1. On the application of any successor or surviving personal representative or of any interested person the court may order any personal representative or his legal representatives or any other person to file any final settlement required by this law or by the order of the court, and may attach and commit for contempt any person who fails to file the settlement within the time fixed by the court until he complies with the order of the court.  2. The court, on the application of any successor or surviving personal representative or of any interested person, may also ascertain what quantity and kind of property of the decedent was in the hands of a personal representative who has failed to file his final settlement as required by this law or by the order of the court, or whose personal representative or conservator has failed to file settlement and may render judgment against the personal representative and his sureties therefor. The judgment may be enforced by execution or, in case delivery of specific property or papers is required, by attachment and commitment of his person until delivery is made.  3. An application filed under this section shall be set for hearing and at least ten days' notice of the time and place of the hearing thereon shall be given all parties affected thereby, by the clerk, and shall be served in the manner directed by the court in accordance with section 472.100. ­­-------- (L. 1955 p. 385 § 214, A.L. 1983 S.B. 44 & 45)
MO Rev Stat § 473.610 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trusts and Estates of Decedents and Persons Under Disability|Chapter 473 - Probate Code — Administration of Decedents' Estates|Section 473.610 - Distribution, when required.

Effective - 28 Aug 1955   473.610. Distribution, when required. — Executors and administrators shall not be compelled to make distribution or pay legacies until six months after the date of the letters, unless the legacies specified would be perishable, or subject to injury if retained six months. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 235, A.L. 1955 p. 385 § 215)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 236; 1919 § 235; 1909 § 244
MO Rev Stat § 473.613 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trusts and Estates of Decedents and Persons Under Disability|Chapter 473 - Probate Code — Administration of Decedents' Estates|Section 473.613 - Partial distribution.

Effective - 28 Aug 1985   473.613. Partial distribution. — 1. Subject to the provisions of section 473.618, upon application of the executor or administrator at any time, or on application of any distributee after the expiration of six months from the date of letters, the court may order the executor or administrator to deliver to any distributee any specific real or personal property, or the possession thereof, to which he is entitled or may decree partial distribution if the court believes that other distributees and claimants are not prejudiced thereby. Within a reasonable time after distribution of property under an order or decree made on application of the executor or administrator and before the decree of final distribution, or at any time before the decree of final distribution if partial distribution was not made on application of the executor or administrator, the court may order the distributee to return all or a part of the property or the value thereof. But no order of return shall be made unless application therefor is filed within the time prescribed by section 473.637 and for the purposes therein provided or for other proper purpose.  2. The partial distribution under this section may be decreed with or without notice to interested parties, as ordered by the court. A decree of partial distribution made after notice to interested persons is as conclusive as a decree of final distribution with respect to the estate distributed except to the extent that other distributees and claimants are deprived of the fair share or amount which they would otherwise receive on final distribution.  3. Before partial distribution is made, the court, upon the request of the executor or administrator, shall require that security be given for the return of the property so distributed to the extent necessary to satisfy the interest of any distributee or claimant prejudiced by the distribution. If partial distribution is made without such request for security, the executor or administrator and his sureties are liable for any loss or damage sustained by any interested party as a result thereof. ­­-------- (L. 1955 p. 385 § 216, A.L. 1957 p. 829, A.L. 1985 S.B. 35, et al.)  (1984) Refusal to approve a petition for partial distribution is not a final judgment and therefore not appealable. Matter of Estate of Pilla (Mo. App.E.D.), 674 S.W.2d 658.
MO Rev Stat § 473.618 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trusts and Estates of Decedents and Persons Under Disability|Chapter 473 - Probate Code — Administration of Decedents' Estates|Section 473.618 - Notice to judgment creditors of distribution — contents of request.

Effective - 01 Jul 1997   473.618. Notice to judgment creditors of distribution — contents of request. — 1. Any judgment creditor of a distributee desiring notice of any partial or final distribution or both, may, at any time subsequent to the granting of letters testamentary or of administration, file with the clerk of the probate division of the circuit court having jurisdiction a duly acknowledged request for such notice and shall cause a copy of the request to be served upon the personal representative administering the estate or upon such representative's attorney of record. The request shall specify the name and address of the judgment creditor, the name of the debtor-distributee and the identity of the estate. A separate request shall be filed for each judgment creditor of a distributee desiring notice. After the serving and filing of any such request, any distributee mentioned in the request may be referred to as a "debtor-distributee".  2. No partial or final distribution shall be made by a supervised or independent personal representative to a debtor-distributee after the serving and filing of any such request until at least twenty days after such representative has caused to be deposited in the United States mail an envelope certified or registered, and with postage fully prepaid, enclosing a notice of the distribution and the date when such distribution will be made, addressed to each person whose name and address is set forth in a request served and filed as provided in subsection 1 of this section. Actual receipt by the addressee of the envelope shall not be necessary to establish compliance with the requirements of this section. The receipt issued by the United States Post Office for certified or registered mail to evidence that the envelope has been delivered by the personal representative to the United States Post Office shall constitute proof of compliance with the notice requirements of this section. Any distribution made by any personal representative to a debtor-distributee prior to the time specified in the notice required by this subsection shall not discharge such representative as against a garnishment, attachment or other judicial process with respect to such debtor-distributee which is served upon such representative or upon such representative's attorney of record by or in behalf of any judgment creditor who has served and filed a request as described in subsection 1 of this section if such distribution is made after the serving and filing of such request by such judgment creditor and if such garnishment, attachment or other judicial process is served upon such personal representative or such representative's attorney of record prior to the scheduled date of such distribution. ­­-------- (L. 1985 S.B. 35, et al., A.L. 1996 S.B. 869)  Effective 7-01-97
MO Rev Stat § 473.620 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trusts and Estates of Decedents and Persons Under Disability|Chapter 473 - Probate Code — Administration of Decedents' Estates|Section 473.620 - Order in which assets are appropriated — abatement.

Effective - 28 Aug 1955   473.620. Order in which assets are appropriated — abatement. — 1. When it is necessary that there be an abatement of the shares of the distributees, they shall, subject to the provisions of the will, abate, without any preference or priority as between real and personal property, in the following order:  (1) Property not disposed of by the will;  (2) Residuary devises;  (3) General legacies;  (4) Specific devises. ­­A general legacy charged on any specific property or fund for the purposes of this section is deemed property specifically devised to the extent of the value of the thing on which it is charged. Upon the failure or insufficiency of the thing on which it is charged, it is deemed a general legacy to the extent of such failure or insufficiency.  2. Subject to the provisions of the will, and to section 473.623, devises of the same class shall abate proportionately.  3. If the provisions of the will or the testamentary plan or the express or implied purpose of the devise would be defeated by the order of appropriation and application prescribed by subsection 1 hereof, the property of the testator shall be apportioned in the manner found necessary to give effect to the intention of the testator. ­­-------- (L. 1955 p. 385 § 218)  (1984) In determining how the surviving spouse's election to take against the will affects the distribution of the rest of the estate when the testator has not specified what is to happen, the court held that the legislature did not intend for the abatement statute to apply to an election to take against the will. Wilkinson v. Brune (Mo. App. E.D.), 682 S.W.2d 107.
MO Rev Stat § 473.623 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trusts and Estates of Decedents and Persons Under Disability|Chapter 473 - Probate Code — Administration of Decedents' Estates|Section 473.623 - Contribution between devisees.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   473.623. Contribution between devisees. — When it is necessary under the provisions of section 473.620 that there be an abatement of specific devises, whether of real or personal property, the court may by order determine the manner in which such abatement shall be accomplished, so that the burden of such abatement will be borne by all specific devisees proportionately according to the value of their respective specific devises, and if any specific devise is sold or applied to accomplish such abatement, the other specific devisees shall be obligated to contribute the respective amounts necessary so that the burden of such abatement will be borne proportionately as provided in this section. The court in its order shall determine the respective amounts to be so contributed and the same may be recovered by the executor or administrator or by the devisees entitled thereto. ­­-------- (L. 1955 p. 385 § 219, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 473.627 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trusts and Estates of Decedents and Persons Under Disability|Chapter 473 - Probate Code — Administration of Decedents' Estates|Section 473.627 - Advancements to be determined.

Effective - 28 Aug 1955   473.627. Advancements to be determined. — All questions of advancements made, or alleged to have been made by an intestate to any heir may be heard and determined by the court at the time of the hearing on the petition for final distribution or at any time prior thereto. The amount of every advancement shall be specified in the decree of final distribution. ­­-------- (L. 1955 p. 385 § 220)
MO Rev Stat § 473.630 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trusts and Estates of Decedents and Persons Under Disability|Chapter 473 - Probate Code — Administration of Decedents' Estates|Section 473.630 - Right of retainer.

Effective - 28 Aug 1955   473.630. Right of retainer. — When a distributee of an estate is indebted to the estate, the amount of the indebtedness if due, or the present worth of the indebtedness, if not due, may be treated as an offset by the executor or administrator against any testate or intestate property, real or personal, of the estate to which such distributee is entitled. An offset hereunder shall be treated as if made as of the time of the death of the decedent and interest shall be adjusted accordingly. ­­-------- (L. 1955 p. 385 § 221)
MO Rev Stat § 473.633 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trusts and Estates of Decedents and Persons Under Disability|Chapter 473 - Probate Code — Administration of Decedents' Estates|Section 473.633 - Interest on general legacies.

Effective - 28 Aug 1985   473.633. Interest on general legacies. — 1. All legacies, other than residuary ones or chattels, shall bear interest from twelve months after the date of the death of the testator at a rate equal to that allowed by law on money due upon order of the court. If the court finds that the legacies cannot be paid without jeopardizing the rights of interested parties because of litigation or other circumstances, the court shall determine what rate of interest, if any, not exceeding the rate allowed by law on money due upon order of the court, shall be allowed, after taking into consideration the income of the estate.  2. The yield on written instruments, shares of corporate stock and similar securities specifically devised shall be deemed a part of the legacy and shall be turned over to the legatee. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 237, A.L. 1955 p. 385 § 222, A.L. 1985 S.B. 35, et al.)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 238; 1919 § 237; 1909 § 246
MO Rev Stat § 473.637 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trusts and Estates of Decedents and Persons Under Disability|Chapter 473 - Probate Code — Administration of Decedents' Estates|Section 473.637 - Distributees to refund, when — judgment.

Effective - 28 Aug 1955   473.637. Distributees to refund, when — judgment. — If after the payment of the legacies or distributions, it becomes necessary that the same, or any part thereof, be refunded for the payment of claims, the court on application filed within five years from the payment of the legacies or distributions shall apportion the same among the legatees or distributees, according to the amount received by them, except that specific legacies are not required to be refunded unless the residue is not sufficient to satisfy the claims. If any legatee or distributee fails to refund, according to the order, on motion of the executor or administrator, the court shall, after ten days' notice in writing has been given to the legatee or distributee, enter judgment for the amount apportioned to him. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 246, A.L. 1955 p. 385 § 223)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 247; 1919 § 246; 1909 § 255
MO Rev Stat § 473.640 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trusts and Estates of Decedents and Persons Under Disability|Chapter 473 - Probate Code — Administration of Decedents' Estates|Section 473.640 - Partition of personal property in kind.

Effective - 28 Aug 1959   473.640. Partition of personal property in kind. — If personal property which is to be distributed may be divided in kind, the court may order a partition thereof among the parties entitled; and for that purpose the court may appoint not more than three commissioners, disinterested and of no kin to the parties, who, after making affidavit that they will honestly and impartially discharge the trust reposed in them, shall make partition as equal in kind as the value and numbers of the articles of property will admit and report their proceedings to the court at a time fixed by the court. The court shall consider all objections to the report and may approve or modify the report and order partition accordingly or it may reject the report and proceed to make partition or appoint new commissioners as often as necessary to accomplish an equitable partition which will meet the approval of the court. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 239, A.L. 1955 p. 385 § 224, A.L. 1959 S.B. 141)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 240; 1919 § 239; 1909 § 248
MO Rev Stat § 473.643 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trusts and Estates of Decedents and Persons Under Disability|Chapter 473 - Probate Code — Administration of Decedents' Estates|Section 473.643 - Property sold to effect partition, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1983   473.643. Property sold to effect partition, when. — 1. If personal property cannot be divided in kind with advantage to the distributees, and it is not to their advantage that the same be sold by the personal representative, then, upon the application of a majority of those entitled to distribution, the court may order the same to be delivered to such person as they designate, in which selection minors shall act by their conservator, who shall proceed to collect, by suit or otherwise, all notes, accounts and choses in action so received in the name of the distributees, and dispose of all property so coming into his possession or under his control to their best interest, collecting the proceeds thereof, and distribute all moneys realized to the parties entitled thereto.  2. Such person, in the discretion of the court, may be required to give bond to the state of Missouri, with good securities, in such sum as the court may deem proper, for the faithful discharge of his duty, and for payment of parties entitled thereto of all moneys collected.  3. The party may be discharged from the trust upon his application, or upon the application of a majority of the heirs, when it appears to the court that it is not for the best interest of distributees that the trust be continued. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 240, A.L. 1955 p. 385 § 225, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 1983 S.B. 44 & 45)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 241; 1919 § 240; 1909 § 249
MO Rev Stat § 473.647 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trusts and Estates of Decedents and Persons Under Disability|Chapter 473 - Probate Code — Administration of Decedents' Estates|Section 473.647 - Notice of application for partition.

Effective - 01 Jan 1981   473.647. Notice of application for partition. — Each person entitled to partition of personal property, not applying therefor, shall be notified, in writing, of the application ten days before the order is made. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 241, A.L. 1955 p. 385 § 226, A.L. 1980 S.B. 637)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 242; 1919 § 241; 1909 § 250  Effective 1-01-81
MO Rev Stat § 473.650 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trusts and Estates of Decedents and Persons Under Disability|Chapter 473 - Probate Code — Administration of Decedents' Estates|Section 473.650 - Distributee may credit share against purchase price, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1955   473.650. Distributee may credit share against purchase price, when. — If a distributee becomes a purchaser of the property at a sale for the purpose of making distribution, his receipt for the amount of his share shall be received in payment of an equal amount of the purchase money, and the court shall allow the amount of such receipt as so much distributed under the order of court. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 243, A.L. 1955 p. 385 § 227)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 244; 1919 § 243; 1909 § 252
MO Rev Stat § 473.653 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trusts and Estates of Decedents and Persons Under Disability|Chapter 473 - Probate Code — Administration of Decedents' Estates|Section 473.653 - Proceedings to compel distribution.

Effective - 28 Aug 1955   473.653. Proceedings to compel distribution. — When an order is made by the court upon an executor or administrator to pay over money to the widow, heirs, legatees or distributees of an estate, and he fails to make such payment, the same proceedings may be had against him and his sureties to compel payment as are authorized in cases where an executor or administrator fails when ordered to pay claims allowed against an estate. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 245, A.L. 1955 p. 385 § 229)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 246; 1919 § 245; 1909 § 254
MO Rev Stat § 473.657 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trusts and Estates of Decedents and Persons Under Disability|Chapter 473 - Probate Code — Administration of Decedents' Estates|Section 473.657 - Distribution.

Effective - 28 Aug 2011   473.657. Distribution. — 1. Distribution to a distributee may be made to the distributee or to a person holding a power of attorney properly executed by the distributee in accordance with the law of the place of execution, or to the distributee's personal representative, guardian, or conservator.  2. Distribution may be made to the trustees of a trust account established pursuant to sections 402.199 to 402.208 if the court finds that the distributee qualifies as a life beneficiary under subdivision (1) of section 402.200 and that such distribution would be in the best interest of the distributee as prescribed by section 475.093. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 251, A.L. 1955 p. 385 § 230, A.L. 1983 S.B. 44 & 45 merged with H.B. 369, A.L. 1996 S.B. 494 merged with S.B. 768, A.L. 1999 S.B. 211, A.L. 2011 S.B. 70)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 252; 1919 § 251
MO Rev Stat § 473.660 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trusts and Estates of Decedents and Persons Under Disability|Chapter 473 - Probate Code — Administration of Decedents' Estates|Section 473.660 - Discharge of personal representative.

Effective - 01 Jan 1981   473.660. Discharge of personal representative. — Upon the filing of receipts or other evidence satisfactory to the court that distribution has been made as ordered in the final decree, the court shall enter an order of discharge. The discharge so obtained operates as a release from the duties of personal representative and operates as a bar to any suit against the personal representative and his sureties unless the suit is commenced within one year from the date of the discharge. Nothing in this section shall be construed to change the effect of an order approving final settlement as provided in section 473.597. ­­-------- (L. 1955 p. 385 § 228, A.L. 1980 S.B. 637)  Effective 1-01-81