Estate of Mings v. Mings

LOWENSTEIN, Presiding Judge.

The issue at the center of this case is whether an authorized public sale of a protected person’s real estate by a conservator, to the conservator’s son, where the conservator has made a gift of the purchase price to the purchaser, violates the prohibition against a conservator becoming an indirect purchaser of the protectee’s property. § 475.235, RSMo 1994. (All further statutory references are to the Revised Statutes of Missouri, 1994). The appellant, Clifford Mings, conservator of his father’s estate, filed a final settlement of that estate after his father’s…