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Mo. Rev. Stat. § 471.030

Joint tenants or tenants by entirety

Known as the The Uniform Simultaneous Death Law

The act spans §§ 471–471 (8 sections).

Effective: 28 Aug 1959; (L. 1947 V

Where there is no sufficient evidence that two joint tenants or tenants by the entirety have died otherwise than simultaneously the property so held shall be distributed one-half as if one had survived and one-half as if the other had survived. If there are more than two joint tenants and all of them have so died the property thus distributed shall be in the proportion that one bears to the whole number of joint tenants. The term "joint tenants" includes owners of property held under circumstances which entitled one or more to the whole of the property on the death of the other or others.

Official source: Missouri Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Missouri statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.