Section 511.030

Title XXXV CIVIL PROCEDURE AND LIMITATIONS

Chapter 511

Effective - 28 Aug 1999   

  511.030.  Judgment, against whom rendered, effect of — court's powers as to minor or disabled person. — 1.  Judgment may be given for or against one or more of several plaintiffs, and for or against one or more of several defendants; and it may determine the ultimate rights of the parties on each side, as between themselves, and it may grant to the plaintiff or the defendant any affirmative or other relief to which he may be entitled.

  2.  If the court determines in any action that a plaintiff or defendant entitled to judgment or other relief is a minor or disabled person, the court may, as part of such judgment, without appointing a conservator, authorize, direct or ratify any transaction necessary or desirable to achieve any security, service or care arrangement meeting the foreseeable needs of such person which is authorized pursuant to the provisions of chapter 475.

  3.  If the court determines in any action that a plaintiff or defendant entitled to judgment or other relief is a minor or disabled person, the court may, as part of such judgment, without appointing a conservator, authorize, direct or ratify any contract or other transaction relating to such person's financial affairs or involving such person's estate if the court determines that the transaction is in the best interests of such person, provided the transaction is authorized pursuant to the provisions of chapter 475.

­­--------

(RSMo 1939 § 1237, A.L. 1999 S.B. 386)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 1071; 1919 § 1522; 1909 § 2091