Probate is the legal process of settling a decedent’s estate and distributing his or her property to those entitled by the decedent’s will or by laws of intestate succession to receive it. In Missouri, the laws governing probate proceedings are codified at Chapters 472-475 of the Missouri Revised Statutes. The Probate Division of the Circuit Court in the county in which the decedent resided at the time of death has jurisdiction in the decedent’s estate.
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Missouri state law outlines the process of conveying real property to create a joint estate using a quit claim deed at Section 442.025.
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