Section 20.7 Right to Intervene

• Library: Estate Administration 2014 Supp

3. (§20.7) Right to Intervene

Standing to sue does not equate to a right to intervene in an existing action. In In re Estate of Hicks, 901 S.W.2d 177, 180 (Mo. App. W.D. 1995), the court distinguished a party’s standing to sue from the right to intervene, stating:

Standing to bring an action is not necessarily the same thing as standing to intervene in an action which has already been properly brought by another party. The interest of the drafters of this provision was to ensure that there were an

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