Section 473.397

Title XXXI TRUSTS AND ESTATES OF DECEDENTS AND PERSONS UNDER DISABILITY

Chapter 473

Effective - 28 Aug 2018, 2 histories   

  473.397.  Classification of claims and statutory allowances. — All claims and statutory allowances against the estate of a decedent shall be divided into the following classes:

  (1)  Costs;

  (2)  Expenses of administration;

  (3)  Exempt property, family and homestead allowances;

  (4)  Funeral expenses;

  (5)  Debts and taxes due the United States of America;

  (6)  Debts for medical assistance owed to the state of Missouri under section 473.398;

  (7)  Expenses of the last sickness, wages of servants, claims for medicine and medical attendance during the last sickness, and the reasonable cost of a tombstone;

  (8)  Debts and taxes due the state of Missouri, any county, or any political subdivision of the state of Missouri;

  (9)  Judgments rendered against the decedent in his lifetime and judgments rendered upon attachments levied upon property of decedent during his lifetime;

  (10)  All other claims not barred by section 473.360.

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(RSMo 1939 § 181, A.L. 1955 p. 385 § 150, A.L. 1965 p. 635, A.L. 1969 S.B. 84, A.L. 1980 S.B. 637, A.L. 2018 S.B. 806)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 182; 1919 § 181; 1909 § 190

CROSS REFERENCE:

State claims paramount--personal liability on failure to pay, 430.330 to 430.350