First Nat'l Bank v. Shirla Howard Revocable Living Trust
Missouri Court of Appeals
1Per curiam
*436Jerry Howard appeals from a summary judgment entered in favor of the Shirla Howard Revocable Living Trust (the "Trust") in an action to settle ownership of a bank account. We must reverse and remand because the summary-judgment record does not establish a right to judgment as a matter of law.
Background1
In 2000, Shirla opened an individual checking account ("Account") with First National Bank ("Bank") and named Jerry, her husband, as the pay-on-death ("POD") beneficiary. Two years later, Shirla established the Trust.
After Shirla died in 2015, Jerry claimed Account ownership by virtue of…
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