In assigning dower and making partition under this chapter, the commissioners shall divide the lands and tenements, and allot the several portions and shares thereof to the respective parties, quantity and quality relatively considered by them; and where the lands are in detached parcels or otherwise, the dower estate, if any, shall be set apart in one body, as near as practicable.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 528.260
Lands shall be divided, how
Known as the Save the Family Farm Act
The act spans §§ 528–528 (73 sections).
Effective: 28 Aug 1939; (RSMo 1939 § 1734); Prior revisions: 1929 § 1570; 1919 § 2018; 1909 § 2582
Official source: Missouri Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Missouri statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.