Mo. Rev. Stat. ch. 461 – Nonprobate Transfers Law | Midpage461.001Transfers on death, certain provisions deemed nontestamentary, exceptions461.003Law, how cited461.005Definitions461.009Nonprobate transfers not subject to requirements of a will — effect with or without consideration461.011Transferring entity acting as agent for owner subject to nontransfer law, agency does not end with death of owner, duties461.012Nonprobate transfers subject to agreement of transferring entity, when461.014Transferring entity, obligation resulting from acceptance and registration461.021Beneficiary designation under written instrument or law, effect461.023Assignments effective on death of owner — delivery, effect461.025Deeds effective on death of owner — recording, effect461.026Procedure to transfer tangible personal property to take effect on death of owner461.027Transferor may directly transfer property to a transferee to hold as owner in beneficiary form — transferee shall be owner of property for all purposes — transfer effective, when461.028Registration of property, including accounts and securities in beneficiary form, effect461.031Effect of beneficiary designation on ownership of property during lifetime and at death461.033Revocation or change of beneficiaries designation461.035Agents may not make, revoke or change beneficiary unless document establishes agent's right or court order authorizes — authorized withdrawals may extinguish beneficiary's right to transfer461.037Property designated for a beneficiary if lost, destroyed, damaged or involuntarily converted, during owner's lifetime, effect461.039Effect of collateral conveyances or liens on property subject to nonprobate transfer461.042Survival required461.043Beneficiary designation designating a trustee under trust not invalid because trust is amendable or revocable — trust that is revoked, terminated or does not exist at death of owner, effect461.045Lineal descendant substitutes461.048Disclaimer461.051Marriage dissolution or annulment — revocation of transfer to former spouse or relative of spouse, exception — remarriage to spouse, nullification of annulment, effect, relative of the owner's spouse, defined461.054Disqualification for fraud, duress and undue influence and causing owner's death — proceeding to determine disqualification461.059Omitted spouse or child, probate rules do not apply — after-born child or after-adopted child, effect on nonprobate transfers461.062Nonprobate transfer rules461.065Transferring entity, protection461.067Rights of owners and beneficiaries — improper distribution, liability of distributee — purchasers from distributee protected461.071Rights of creditors461.073Scope and application of law461.076Jurisdiction of probate division of circuit court461.079Beneficiary designation valid under law of another state enforceable in Missouri — effect of transfer determined by local law selected in document or designation461.081Nonprobate transfer laws to be effective when — prior transfers to be valid461.300Recipients of recoverable transfer to pay pro rata share of all property received to cover statutory allowances and claims due estate, enforced by action for accounting, time limitation — action effect on transferring entity