Section 473.397

Title XXXI TRUSTS AND ESTATES OF DECEDENTS AND PERSONS UNDER DISABILITY

Chapter 473

Effective - 01 Jan 1981, 2 histories, see footnote   (history) 

  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)  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;

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

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

  (9)  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)

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

Effective 1-01-81

CROSS REFERENCE:

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

(1986) Probate court has no jurisdiction to appoint an administrator ad litem once an appeal from its decision has been filed. Bank of Kansas City v. District Director of I.R.S., 721 S.W.2d 226 (Mo.App.W.D.).