Pre-filed December 14, 1999, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
Read 1st time January 5, 2000.
Read 2nd time January 6, 2000, and referred to the Committee on Civil and Administrative Law, January 13, 2000.
Reported from the Committee on Civil and Administrative Law, January 31, 2000, with recommendation that the bill Do Pass by Consent.
Perfected by Consent February 21, 2000.
ANNE C. WALKER, Chief Clerk
To repeal section 475.110, RSMo 1994, relating to the removal of a guardian or conservator, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 475.110, RSMo 1994, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 475.110, to read as follows:
475.110. 1. When a minor ward has attained the age of fourteen years, the guardian of his or her person may be removed on petition of the ward to have another person appointed guardian if it is for the best interests of the ward that such other person be appointed. When the spouse of an incapacitated or disabled person is appointed his or her guardian or conservator, such spouse shall be removed as guardian or conservator upon dissolution of his or her marriage with the incapacitated or disabled person. A guardian or conservator may also be removed on the same grounds as is provided in section 473.140, RSMo, for the removal of personal representatives.
2. Notwithstanding subsection 1 of this section, a spouse whose marriage to the ward was dissolved may petition the
court to remain as or be reappointed guardian or conservator of the incapacitated or disabled person in accordance
with section 475.115.
Missouri House of Representatives