Missouri Statutes
§ 474.020 — Lineals take per capita and per stirpes, when.
Missouri § 474.020
JurisdictionMissouri
Title XXXITRUSTS AND ESTATES OF DECEDENTS AND PERSONS UNDER DISABILITY
Ch. 474Probate Code — Intestate Succession and Wills
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Bluebook
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 474.020 (2026).
Text
When several lineal descendants, all of equal degree of consanguinity to the intestate, or his father, mother, brothers and sisters, or his grandfathers, grandmothers, uncles and aunts, or any ancestor living and their children, come into partition, they shall take per capita, that is, by persons; where a part of them are dead, and part living, and the issue of those dead have a right to partition, such issue shall take per stirpes; that is, the share of the deceased parent.
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Legislative History
(RSMo 1939 § 310, A.L. 1955 p. 385 § 237)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 310; 1919 § 307; 1909 § 336
Nearby Sections
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§ 474.010
General rules of descent.§ 474.030
Partial intestacy.§ 474.050
Posthumous children to inherit.§ 474.070
Legitimation by marriage.§ 474.100
Alienage no bar to descent.§ 474.110
Curtesy and dower abolished.Cite This Page — Counsel Stack
Bluebook (online)
Missouri § 474.020, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/statute/mo/474.020.