SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 859
90TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR JACOB.
Read 1st time January 18, 2000, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
3691S.01I
AN ACT
To repeal section 461.051, RSMo Supp. 1999, relating to nonprobate transfers, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 461.051, RSMo Supp. 1999, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 461.051, to read as follows:
461.051. 1. For all beneficiary designations made on or after August 28, 1989, if, after an owner makes such a beneficiary designation, the owner's marriage is dissolved or annulled, any provision of the beneficiary designation in favor of the owner's former spouse or a relative of the owner's former spouse is revoked on the date the marriage is dissolved or annulled, whether or not the beneficiary designation refers to marital status. The beneficiary designation shall be given effect as if the former spouse or relative of the former spouse had disclaimed the revoked provision.
2. Subsection 1 of this section does not apply to a provision of a beneficiary designation that has been made irrevocable, or revocable only with the spouse's consent, or that is made after the marriage was dissolved, or that expressly states that marriage dissolution shall not affect the designation of a spouse or relative of a spouse as beneficiary.
3. Any provision of a beneficiary designation revoked solely by this section is revived by the owner's remarriage to the former spouse or by a nullification of the marriage dissolution or annulment.
4. In this section, "a relative of the owner's former spouse" means an individual who is related to the owner's former spouse by blood, adoption or affinity and who, after the divorce or annulment, is not related to the owner by blood, adoption or affinity.