490.620. Person, when presumed to be dead. - Missouri Statutes

Person, when presumed to be dead.

490.620. If any person who shall have resided in this state goes fromand does not return to this state for five successive years, he or sheshall be presumed to be dead in any case wherein his or her death shallcome in question, unless proof be made that he or she was alive within thattime. The fact that such person was exposed to a specific peril of deathdue to a terrorist event may be a sufficient basis for determining at anytime after such exposure that he or she died less than five years after thedate his or her absence commenced.

(RSMo 1939 § 1873, A.L. 1982 S.B. 700 Revision, A.L. 2002 S.B. 712)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 1709; 1919 § 5396; 1909 § 6340

CROSS REFERENCES:

Presumption of death on five years' absence, RSMo 473.697 to 473.720

Simultaneous death law, Chap. 471, RSMo