When any deed, conveyance, assurance, agreement or contract in lieu of the inheritance or other statutory rights of a spouse, through any default, fails to be a legal bar to such rights and the surviving spouse demands his inheritance and statutory rights, then the estate and interest so conveyed to the surviving spouse ceases and determines.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 474.130
Estate conveyed determines on failure of contractual bar
Known as the Missouri Electronic Wills and Electronic Estate Planning Documents Act
The act spans §§ 474–474 (79 sections).
Effective: 28 Aug 1955; (RSMo 1939 § 336, A.L. 1955 p. 385 § 249); Prior revisions: 1929 § 336; 1919 § 332; 1909 § 364
Official source: Missouri Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Missouri statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.