429.200. Personal representative made party, when. - Missouri Statutes

Personal representative made party, when.

429.200. In case of the death of any of the partiesspecified in section 429.190, whether before or after suitbrought, the personal representative of such deceased party shallbe made plaintiff or defendant, as the case may require, and itshall not be necessary to make the heirs or devisees of suchdeceased persons parties to the suit; but if there is no personalrepresentative of such deceased person, then his heirs ordevisees may be made parties, and if any of the heirs or deviseesare minors under the age of eighteen years, their guardians orconservators of their estates shall be made parties with them;but if such minors shall have no guardians or conservators oftheir estates, the court in which the suit is pending shallappoint guardians ad litem for them in the same manner and underthe same rules and regulations as guardians ad litem areappointed in proceedings for partition of real estate, and thejudgment and proceedings of such court in any such suits shall beas binding on such minors as if they were over the age ofeighteen years.

(RSMo 1939 § 3556, A.L. 1983 S.B. 44 & 45) Prior revisions: 1929 § 3166; 1919 § 7226; 1909 § 8222