472.005. Application, when--effect on pending proceedings and rights. - Missouri Statutes

Application, when--effect on pending proceedings and rights.

472.005. This act* shall apply to the estates of persons whose deathsoccur on or after January 1, 1981. The procedures herein prescribed shallgovern all proceedings in probate then pending, except to the extent that, inthe opinion of the court, their application in particular proceedings or partsthereof would not be feasible or would work injustice, in which event theformer procedure shall apply. No act done in any proceeding commenced beforeJanuary 1, 1981, and no accrued right shall be impaired by its provisions.When a right is acquired, extinguished or barred upon the expiration of aprescribed period of time which has commenced to run by the provision of anystatute in force before this act* takes effect, such provision shall remain inforce and be deemed a part of the probate code with respect to such rightexcept as otherwise provided therein.

(L. 1980 S.B. 637)

Effective 1-1-81

*This act was known as the "Probate Code", which includes chapters 472, 473 and 474, RSMo.