141.470. Infants, disabled persons or convicts actions to foreclose, procedure (first class charter counties). - Missouri Statutes

Infants, disabled persons or convicts actions to foreclose, procedure (first class charter counties).

141.470. 1. If any infant, disabled person or convict inactual confinement shall file an answer, or if the disability ofsuch person shall be called to the attention of the court, thecourt shall cause a copy of the letter notice of foreclosuredescribed in section 141.450 to be forwarded by United Statesregistered mail to the conservator of the disabled person ortrustee of the convict, or if the disabled person has noconservator or the convict has no trustee the court shall appointa guardian ad litem for the disabled person or convict torepresent him in the suit.

2. Failure to appoint or notify a guardian, conservator, ortrustee, or to appoint a guardian ad litem as herein provided,after the disability is called to the attention of the court,shall constitute error that may be reviewed on appeal but absentsuch appeal this shall not invalidate any judgment rendered undersections 141.210 to 141.810. The error may also be urged by anycompetent person who may take an appeal on behalf of the disabledperson or convict.

(L. 1943 p. 1029 § 22, A.L. 1961 p. 463, A.L. 1983 S.B. 44 & 45)