Section 475.140

Title XXXI TRUSTS AND ESTATES OF DECEDENTS AND PERSONS UNDER DISABILITY

Chapter 475

Effective - 28 Aug 1993   

  475.140.  Notice of conservatorship of disabled persons. — 1.  The clerk, as soon as letters of conservatorship of the estate of any disabled person are issued, upon the basis of a determination of disability other than minority, shall cause to be published in some newspaper a notice of the appointment of the conservator, in which shall be included a notice to creditors of the protectee to file their claims in the court or be forever barred.  The notice shall be published once a week for four consecutive weeks in accordance with section 472.100.  Such notice shall be in substantially the following form:

TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE ESTATE OF ______, A DISABLED PERSON:

On the _________  day of _________ , 20_________ , _________ was appointed conservator of the estate of _________ , a person adjudicated disabled under the laws of Missouri, by the Probate Division of the Circuit Court of _________ County, Missouri. The business address of the conservator is _________ . All creditors of said disabled person are notified to file their claims in the Probate Division of the Circuit Court. Date of first publication _________

__________________

Clerk of the Probate Division of the

Circuit Court of _________  County, Missouri

  2.  The court, in its discretion, may waive publication of notice or defer it until a definite date or until further order of the court.

  3.  When a limited conservator has been appointed, the notice shall so specify.

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(L. 1955 p. 385 § 309, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 1983 S.B. 44 & 45, A.L. 1993 S.B. 88)