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Missouri Transfer on Death Deed or TOD - Beneficiary Deed for Husband and Wife to Three Individuals

Q: Is a transfer on death deed a good idea?

If you&#039;d like to avoid having your property going through the probate process, it&#039;s a good idea to look into a transfer on death deed. A transfer on death deed allows you to select a beneficiary who will receive your property, but only when you&#039;ve passed away.

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Real Estate - Deeds - Transfer on Death

State:

Missouri

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MO-028-77

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What this document covers

The Transfer on Death Deed, also known as a Beneficiary Deed, is a legal document that allows a husband and wife to transfer the title of their property to three designated beneficiaries upon their deaths. This form is revocable until the last surviving grantor passes away, which means the transfer is effectively contingent upon the death of the original owners. Unlike other estate planning documents, this deed does not require the transfer of ownership until that time, allowing for greater flexibility in property management while the owners are alive.

Key parts of this document

Identification of Grantors: Names of the husband and wife transferring the property.
Identification of Grantees: Names of the three individuals who will receive the property.
Property Description: Detailed legal description of the property being transferred.
Revocation Clause: States that the deed can be revoked prior to the death of the last surviving grantor.
Notarization Requirement: Indicates that the deed must be signed in the presence of a Notary Public.

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When to use this document

This form should be used when a husband and wife wish to ensure that their property automatically transfers to specified individuals after their deaths. It is ideal for couples who want to simplify the estate planning process and avoid probate for their real estate holdings. Common scenarios include instances where the couple owns a primary residence or other real estate holdings and wants to designate beneficiaries who are not their heirs.

Who this form is for

This deed is suitable for:

Married couples who own real estate together.
Couples wishing to designate specific individuals as beneficiaries upon their death.
Individuals seeking a straightforward means of transferring property while avoiding probate processes.

Completing this form step by step

Identify the parties: Complete the names of the husband and wife as Grantors.
Designate the beneficiaries: Fill in the names of the three individuals who will inherit the property.
Specify the property: Include a legal description of the property that is being transferred.
Sign the deed: Both Grantors must sign the document in front of a Notary Public.
Store the deed securely: Keep the executed deed in a safe location where it can be accessed after death.

Is notarization required?

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Common mistakes

Failing to accurately describe the property, leading to confusion during transfer.
Not having the document notarized, which is essential for legal validity.
Not revoking previous beneficiary designations, resulting in complications for the heirs.

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FAQ

While a Missouri Transfer on Death Deed or TOD - Beneficiary Deed for Husband and Wife to Three Individuals offers various benefits, there are some disadvantages to consider. One potential drawback is that the deed does not provide protection against creditors; the property may still be subject to claims after the owner's death. Additionally, if beneficiaries are not clearly defined or if they predecease the owner, complications can arise. It's essential to understand these limitations, and platforms like uslegalforms can guide you in creating a well-structured deed.

Yes, a Missouri Transfer on Death Deed or TOD - Beneficiary Deed for Husband and Wife to Three Individuals can indeed have multiple beneficiaries. This flexibility allows property owners to designate more than one person to inherit their property after they pass away. It’s a practical solution for couples wishing to share their assets among family members or friends. By outlining multiple beneficiaries, you can ensure that your intentions are clearly documented and legally recognized.

The Tod rule in Missouri refers to the legal framework surrounding the Missouri Transfer on Death Deed or TOD - Beneficiary Deed for Husband and Wife to Three Individuals. This rule allows property owners to transfer their real estate to designated beneficiaries upon their death, avoiding probate. It simplifies the estate transfer process and provides peace of mind for both property owners and their loved ones. By utilizing this rule, you can ensure a smooth transition of property ownership.

You file a Missouri Transfer on Death Deed or TOD - Beneficiary Deed for Husband and Wife to Three Individuals at the county recorder's office in the county where the property is situated. It is essential to visit the specific office that manages property records for that area. By filing at the right location, you ensure that the deed becomes part of the public record, allowing your beneficiaries to inherit the property smoothly. The US Legal Forms platform can guide you in locating the right office and provide necessary forms.

To file a Missouri Transfer on Death Deed or TOD - Beneficiary Deed for Husband and Wife to Three Individuals, you need to complete the deed form available on the US Legal Forms platform. Once you fill out the form with accurate details, ensure you sign it in front of a notary public. After notarization, you must file the deed with the appropriate county recorder’s office where the property is located. This process guarantees that your wishes are honored after your passing.

A Missouri beneficiary deed formalso known as a Missouri transfer-on-death deed form or simply Missouri TOD deed formis a written document that transfers real estate at an owner's death.At the owner's death, the property passes to beneficiary without the need for probate.

Fill in information about you and the TOD beneficiary. provide a description of the property. check over the completed deed. sign the deed in front of a notary public, and. record the deed at the recorder's office in the county where the property is located.

If you'd like to avoid having your property going through the probate process, it's a good idea to look into a transfer on death deed. A transfer on death deed allows you to select a beneficiary who will receive your property, but only when you've passed away.

A TOD designation supersedes a will. For bank accounts, you can set up a similar account known as payable-on-death, sometimes referred to as a Totten trust. Your beneficiaries can't touch the account while you're alive, and you're free to change beneficiaries or close the accounts at any time.

As of September 2019, the District of Columbia and the following states allow some form of TOD deed: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia,

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Transfer on Death Deed or TOD - Beneficiary Deed for Husband and Wife to Three Individuals

Missouri Statutes
TITLE XXXI TRUSTS AND ESTATES OF DECEDENTS AND PERSONS UNDER DISABILITY
Chapter 461 NONPROBATE TRANSFERS LAW

461.001. Transfers on death, certain provisions deemed nontestamentary, exceptions.

Any of the following provisions in an insurance policy, contract of employment, bond, mortgage, promissory note, stock certificate, account agreement, custodial agreement, deposit agreement, compensation plan, pension plan, individual retirement plan, employee benefit plan, trust agreement, declaration of trust, conveyance or any other written instrument effective as a contract, gift, conveyance, or trust or to evidence ownership of property is deemed to be nontestamentary, and exempt from the requirements of section 473.087 and section 474.320:

(1) That money or other benefits theretofore due to, controlled or owned by a decedent shall be paid after the decedent's death to a person or persons designated by the decedent in either the instrument or a separate writing, including a will, executed at the same time as the instrument or subsequently;

(2) That any money due or to become due under the instrument shall cease to be payable in event of the death of the promisee or the promisor before payment or demand;

(3) That any property which is the subject of the instrument shall pass on decedent's death to a person or persons designated by the decedent in either the instrument or a separate writing, including a will, executed at the same time as the instrument or subsequently;

(4) Except to the extent specifically excluded thereunder, sections 461.003 to 461.081 apply to transfers under this section.

(L. 1995 S.B. 116)

461.005. Definitions.

In sections 461.003 to 461.081, unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms mean:

(1) "Beneficiary", a person or persons designated or entitled to receive property pursuant to a nonprobate transfer on surviving one or more persons;

(2) "Beneficiary designation", a provision in writing that is not a will that designates the beneficiary of a nonprobate transfer, including the transferee in an instrument that makes the transfer effective on death of the owner, and that complies with the conditions of any governing instrument, the rules of any transferring entity and applicable law;

(3) "Death of the owner", in the case of joint owners, means death of the last surviving owner;

(4) "In proper form", a phrase which applies to a beneficiary designation or a revocation or change thereof, or a request to make, revoke or change a beneficiary designation, which complies with the terms of the governing instrument, the rules of the transferring entity and applicable law, including any requirements with respect to supplemental documents;

(5) "Joint owners", persons who hold property as joint tenants with right of survivorship and a husband and wife who hold property as tenants by the entirety;

(6) "LDPS", an abbreviation of lineal descendants per stirpes which may be used in a beneficiary designation to designate a substitute beneficiary as provided in section 461.045;

(7) "Nonprobate transfer", a transfer of property taking effect upon the death of the owner, pursuant to a beneficiary designation. A nonprobate transfer under sections 461.003 to 461.081 does not include survivorship rights in property held as joint tenants or tenants by the entirety, a transfer to a remainderman on termination of a life tenancy, a transfer under a trust established by an individual, either inter vivos or testamentary, a transfer pursuant to the exercise or nonexercise of a power of appointment, or a transfer made on death of a person who did not have the right to designate his or her estate as the beneficiary of the transfer;

(8) "Owner", a person or persons having a right, exercisable alone or with others, regardless of the terminology used to refer to the owner in any written beneficiary designation, to designate the beneficiary of a nonprobate transfer, and includes joint owners. The provisions of this subdivision shall apply to all beneficiary deeds executed and filed at any time, including, but not limited to, those executed and filed on or before August 28, 2005;

(9) "Ownership in beneficiary form", holding property pursuant to a registration in beneficiary form or other writing that names the owner of the property followed by a transfer on death direction and the designation of a beneficiary;

(10) "Person", living individuals, entities capable of owning property and fiduciaries;

(11) "Proof of death", includes a death certificate or record or report that is prima facie proof or evidence of death under section 472.290;

(12) "Property", any present or future interest in property, real or personal, tangible or intangible, legal or equitable. Property includes a right to direct or receive payment of a debt, money or other benefits due under a contract, account agreement, deposit agreement, employment contract, compensation plan, pension plan, individual retirement plan, employee benefit plan, trust or law, a right to receive performance remaining due under a contract, a right to receive payment under a promissory note or a debt maintained in a written account record, rights under a certificated or uncertificated security, rights under an instrument evidencing ownership of property issued by a governmental agency and rights under a document of title within the meaning of section 400.1-201;

(13) "Registration in beneficiary form", titling of an account record, certificate, or other written instrument evidencing ownership of property in the name of the owner followed by a transfer on death direction and the designation of a beneficiary;

(14) "Security", a certificated or uncertificated security as defined in section 400.8-102, including securities as defined in section 409.401[fn*];

(15) "Transfer on death direction", the phrase "transfer on death to" or the phrase "pay on death to" or the abbreviation "TOD" or "POD" after the name of the owners and before the designation of the beneficiary; and

(16) "Transferring entity", a person who owes a debt or is obligated to pay money or benefits, render contract performance, deliver or convey property, or change the record of ownership of property on the books, records and accounts of an enterprise or on a certificate or document of title that evidences property rights, and includes any governmental agency, business entity or transfer agent that issues certificates of ownership or title to property and a person acting as a custodial agent for an owner's property.

[fn*] Section 409.401 was repealed in 2003 by H.B. 380, effective 9-01-03.

(L. 1989 H.B. 145 Â§ 18, A.L. 1995 S.B. 116, A.L. 2005 S.B. 407 merged with S.B. 420 & 344)

461.011. Transferring entity acting as agent for owner subject to nontransfer law, agency does not end with death of owner, duties.

For the purpose of discharging its duties under the nonprobate transfers law, the authority of a transferring entity acting as agent for an owner of property subject to a nonprobate transfer shall not cease at death of the owner. The transferring entity shall transfer the property to the designated beneficiary in accordance with the governing instrument, the rules of the transferring entity and sections 461.003 to 461.081.

461.012. Nonprobate transfers subject to agreement of transferring entity, when.

1. When any of the following is required, provision for a nonprobate transfer is a matter of agreement between the owner and the transferring entity, under such rules, terms and conditions as the owner and transferring entity may agree:

(1) Submission to the transferring entity of a beneficiary designation under a governing instrument;

(2) Registration by a transferring entity of a transfer on death direction on any certificate or record evidencing ownership of property;

(3) The consent of a contract obligor for a transfer of performance due under the contract;

(4) The consent of a financial institution for a transfer of an obligation of the financial institution; or

(5) The consent of a transferring entity for a transfer of an interest in the transferring entity.

2. Whenever subsection 1 of this section is applicable, sections 461.003 to 461.081 do not impose an obligation on a transferring entity to accept an owner's request to make provision for a nonprobate transfer of property.

3. When a beneficiary designation, revocation or change is subject to acceptance by a transferring entity, the transferring entity's acceptance of the beneficiary designation, revocation or change relates back to and is effective as of the time when the request was received by the transferring entity.

(L. 1989 H.B. 145 Â§ 20, A.L. 1995 S.B. 116)

461.014. Transferring entity, obligation resulting from acceptance and registration.

When a transferring entity accepts a beneficiary designation or beneficiary assignment, or registers property in beneficiary form, the acceptance or registration constitutes the agreement of the owner and transferring entity that, unless the beneficiary designation is revoked or changed prior to the owner's death, on proof of death of the owner and compliance with the transferring entity's requirements for showing proof of entitlement, the property will be transferred to and placed in the name and control of the beneficiary in accordance with the beneficiary designation or transfer on death direction, the agreement of the parties and sections 461.003 to 461.081.

(L. 1989 H.B. 145 Â§ 21, A.L. 1995 S.B. 116)

461.021. Beneficiary designation under written instrument or law, effect.

A beneficiary designation, under a written instrument or law, that authorizes a transfer of property pursuant to a written designation of beneficiary, transfers the right to receive the property to the designated beneficiary who survives, effective on death of the owner, if the beneficiary designation is executed and delivered in proper form to the transferring entity prior to the death of the owner.

(L. 1989 H.B. 145 Â§ 23, A.L. 1995 S.B. 116)

461.023. Assignments effective on death of owner delivery, effect.

1. A written assignment of a contract right that assigns the right to receive any performance remaining due under the contract to an assignee designated by the owner, that expressly states that the assignment is not to take effect until the death of the owner, transfers the right to receive performance due under the contract to the designated assignee beneficiary, effective on death of the owner, if the assignment is executed and delivered in proper form to the contract obligor prior to the death of the owner or is executed in proper form and acknowledged before a notary public or other person authorized to administer oaths. A beneficiary assignment need not be supported by consideration or be delivered to the assignee beneficiary.

2. This section does not preclude other methods of assignment that are permitted by law and that have the effect of postponing enjoyment of a contract right until the death of the owner.

(L. 1989 H.B. 145 Â§ 24, A.L. 1995 S.B. 116)

461.025. Deeds effective on death of owner recording, effect.

1. A deed that conveys an interest in real property to a grantee designated by the owner, that expressly states that the deed is not to take effect until the death of the owner, transfers the interest provided to the designated grantee beneficiary, effective on death of the owner, if the deed is executed and filed of record with the recorder of deeds in the city or county or counties in which the real property is situated prior to the death of the owner. A beneficiary deed need not be supported by consideration or be delivered to the grantee beneficiary. A beneficiary deed may be used to transfer an interest in real property to a trust estate, regardless of such trust's revocability.

2. This section does not preclude other methods of conveyancing that are permitted by law and that have the effect of postponing enjoyment of an interest in real property until the death of the owner. This section does not invalidate any deed, otherwise effective by law to convey title to the interest and estates therein provided, that is not recorded until after the death of the owner.

(L. 1989 H.B. 145 Â§ 25, A.L. 1994 S.B. 701, A.L. 1995 S.B. 116)

461.027. Transferor may directly transfer property to a transferee to hold as owner in beneficiary form transferee shall be owner of property for all purposes transfer effective, when.

1. A transferor of property, with or without consideration, may directly transfer the property to a transferee to hold as owner in beneficiary form.

2. A transferee under an instrument described in subsection 1 of this section shall be the owner of the property for all purposes and shall have all the rights to the property otherwise provided by law to owners, including the right to revoke or change the beneficiary designation.

3. A direct transfer of property to a transferee to hold as owner in beneficiary form is effective when the writing perfecting the transfer becomes effective to make the transferee the owner.

(L. 1995 S.B. 116)

Transfer on Death Deed or TOD - Beneficiary Deed for Husband and Wife to Three Individuals

Missouri Statutes
TITLE XXXI TRUSTS AND ESTATES OF DECEDENTS AND PERSONS UNDER DISABILITY
Chapter 461 NONPROBATE TRANSFERS LAW

[fn*] Section 409.401 was repealed in 2003 by H.B. 380, effective 9-01-03.

(L. 1989 H.B. 145 Â§ 18, A.L. 1995 S.B. 116, A.L. 2005 S.B. 407 merged with S.B. 420 & 344)

Missouri Transfer on Death Deed or TOD - Beneficiary Deed for Husband and Wife to Three Individuals

What this document covers

Key parts of this document

Related forms

When to use this document

Who this form is for

Completing this form step by step

Is notarization required?

Common mistakes

Why complete this form online

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Form popularity

FAQ

What are the disadvantages of using a tod deed?

Can a tod have multiple beneficiaries?

What is the Tod rule in Missouri?

Where do you file a transfer on death deed?

How do I file a transfer on death deed in Missouri?

Does Missouri have a transfer on death deed?

How do I file a beneficiary deed in Missouri?

Is a transfer on death deed a good idea?

Does a transfer on death deed supersede a will?

What states allow a transfer on death deed?

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Missouri Transfer on Death Deed or TOD - Beneficiary Deed for Husband and Wife to Three Individuals

What this document covers

Key parts of this document

Related forms

When to use this document

Who this form is for

Completing this form step by step

Is notarization required?

Common mistakes

Why complete this form online

Viewed forms

Form popularity

FAQ

What are the disadvantages of using a tod deed?

Can a tod have multiple beneficiaries?

What is the Tod rule in Missouri?

Where do you file a transfer on death deed?

How do I file a transfer on death deed in Missouri?

Does Missouri have a transfer on death deed?

How do I file a beneficiary deed in Missouri?

Is a transfer on death deed a good idea?

Does a transfer on death deed supersede a will?

What states allow a transfer on death deed?

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