Section 11.10 Authority of Foreign Personal Representative in Missouri

• Library: Estate Administration 2014 Supp

2. (§11.10) Authority of Foreign Personal Representative in Missouri

As discussed in §11.3 above, a foreign personal representative generally has no authority to act in Missouri simply by virtue of appointment in the decedent’s domiciliary state. This foreign representative could only act in Missouri by initiating a local administration in Missouri.

The 1980 amendments to the Missouri Probate Code, Chapters 472–475, RSMo, provide for a new method of administration of nonresident decedent estates in Missouri.

If no local administration, or application or petition therefor, is pending in [Missouri], a domiciliary foreign personal representative may file with a probate division of the circuit court in [Missouri], in a county in which property belonging to the decedent is located, authenticated

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