Missouri Revised Statutes













Chapter 473

Probate Code--Administration of Decedents' Estates

←473.763

Section 473.767.1

473.770→

August 28, 2015

Public administrator, duties after expiration of term--duties prior to expiration of term, certain counties.

473.767. 1. In counties operating under fee retention, the public

administrator shall before the first court day after the expiration of one

year after their successor in office has qualified, file a final settlement

as required by section 473.540 for all estates in their charge as public

administrator in which final settlement can be made. On the first court day

after the expiration of one year after the election of a successor to the

public administrator, the judge of the probate division, upon the judge's own

motion, shall order the public administrator to account for and deliver all

money, property, or papers belonging to all estates in his or her hands in

which final settlement cannot be made, to the successor in office, or to the

heirs of any estate, or to any executor or administrator regularly appointed,

and such accounting and delivery shall be accomplished during the sixty days

next thereafter.



2. In counties where the public administrator is paid a salary, the

public administrator shall deliver property and make necessary filings as

required in this section prior to leaving his or her term of office.



3. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 1 of this section, the

former public administrator or their legal representative, upon approval and

order of the judge of the probate division of the circuit court having

jurisdiction over the estates in which the former public administrator has

been appointed personal representative, guardian or conservator, shall turn

over the administration of the estates to the successor public administrator.

A copy of the annual account of each estate in part covering the term of the

former public administrator shall be filed with the probate division by the

successor public administrator and the successor public administrator shall be

charged with the assets and liabilities shown thereby.



(RSMo 1939 § 301, A.L. 1955 p. 385 § 232, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L.

1981 S.B. 423, A.L. 1987 S.B. 65, et al., A.L. 1989 S.B. 181, A.L.

1990 S.B. 596, A.L. 1992 S.B. 817, A.L. 1993 S.B. 88, A.L. 1998

S.B. 764, A.L. 2000 S.B. 542)



Prior revisions: 1929 § 301; 1919 § 298; 1909 § 304



*Transferred 1957; formerly 461.890







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