BASLER, ESTATE OF v. Delassus

The principal opinion expands the authority of a personal representative as to real property beyond the scope mandated by the legislature. Apart from usurping the legislative role, it endangers the marketability of the real property disposed of in accordance with it. In so doing, it only delays the intervention of the courts in such transfers.

The 1980 revisions of the Missouri Probate Code did not alter probate law to the extent proposed by the Uniform Probate Code. The chief difference concerns the extent to which administration of estates is permitted to proceed independently of court…