471.020. Survival of beneficiaries. - Missouri Statutes

Survival of beneficiaries.

471.020. If property is so disposed of that the right of abeneficiary to succeed to any interest therein is conditionalupon his surviving another person, and both persons die, andthere is no sufficient evidence that the two have died otherwisethan simultaneously, the beneficiary shall be deemed not to havesurvived. If there is no sufficient evidence that two or morebeneficiaries have died otherwise than simultaneously andproperty has been disposed of in such a way that at the time oftheir death each of such beneficiaries would have been entitledto the property if he had survived the others, the property shallbe divided into as many equal portions as there were suchbeneficiaries and these portions shall be distributedrespectively to those who would have taken in the event that eachof such beneficiaries had survived.

(L. 1947 V. I p. 13 § 3, A.L. 1959 S.B. 120)