Estate of Graham v. Kirkweg

OVERVIEW

LOWENSTEIN, Judge.

The Department of Social Services of the State of Missouri (Department) appeals from the judgment of the Probate Court of Miller County in favor of Connie Kirkweg, personal representative of the Estate of Samuel G. Graham (Estate), on the Department’s claim seeking reimbursement under § 473.398, RSMo 20001 and § 473.399, for Medicaid expenditures paid on behalf of the decedent, Samuel, and his wife Doloris, who had predeceased him. These statutes, as pertinent here and set out infra, require the State to recover from a person’s estate the amount of care and/or…