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§ 474.190 — Form of election, filing.

Missouri § 474.190
JurisdictionMissouri
Title XXXITRUSTS AND ESTATES OF DECEDENTS AND PERSONS UNDER DISABILITY
Ch. 474Probate Code — Intestate Succession and Wills

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Mo. Rev. Stat. § 474.190 (2026).

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The election to take the share hereinbefore provided shall be in writing, signed and acknowledged by the surviving spouse or by the guardian ad litem or conservator of his estate and shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the court.  It may be in the following form:

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Legislative History

(L. 1955 p. 385 § 255, A.L. 1983 S.B. 44 & 45)

Nearby Sections

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§ 474.010
General rules of descent.
§ 474.015
Failure to survive decedent by 120 hours deemed predecease of decedent — consequences.
§ 474.020
Lineals take per capita and per stirpes, when.
§ 474.030
Partial intestacy.
§ 474.040
Collaterals of half blood inherit, how.
§ 474.050
Posthumous children to inherit.
§ 474.060
Determination of relationship of parent and child — adopted person is child of adopting parent, exception — illegitimate child, relationship determined.
§ 474.070
Legitimation by marriage.
§ 474.080
Issue of void or dissolved marriage, legitimate.
§ 474.090
Advancements counted against share, when — evaluation.
§ 474.100
Alienage no bar to descent.
§ 474.110
Curtesy and dower abolished.
§ 474.120
Inheritance and statutory rights deemed waived, when.
§ 474.130
Estate conveyed determines on failure of contractual bar.
§ 474.140
Inheritance and statutory rights barred on misconduct of spouse.
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