Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 451 - Marriage, Marriage Contracts, and Rights of Married Women
Section 451.270 - Property of married person exempt from debts of spouse incurred before marriage.

Effective - 28 Aug 2001
451.270. Property of married person exempt from debts of spouse incurred before marriage. — A spouse's property, except such as may be acquired from the other spouse, shall be exempt from all debts and liabilities contracted or incurred by his or her spouse before their marriage.
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(RSMo 1939 § 3391, A.L. 2001 H.B. 537)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 3004; 1919 § 7329; 1909 § 8310

Structure Missouri Revised Statutes

Missouri Revised Statutes

Title XXX - Domestic Relations

Chapter 451 - Marriage, Marriage Contracts, and Rights of Married Women

Section 451.010 - Marriage a civil contract.

Section 451.020 - Certain marriages prohibited — official issuing licenses to certain persons guilty of misdemeanor.

Section 451.022 - Public policy, same sex marriages prohibited — license may not be issued.

Section 451.030 - Bigamous marriage void.

Section 451.040 - Marriage license required, waiting period — presence not required, when — application, contents — license void when — common law of marriages void — lack of authority to perform marriage, effect — online applications, procedure.

Section 451.080 - Recorder to issue license — form of.

Section 451.090 - Issuance of license prohibited, when — parental consent, when required — proof of age.

Section 451.100 - Marriages solemnized by whom.

Section 451.110 - Certificate of marriage to be given.

Section 451.115 - Marriages illegally solemnized — penalty.

Section 451.120 - Penalty for solemnizing marriage without license, or failing to keep a record thereof.

Section 451.130 - Penalty for failure to issue, record or return license.

Section 451.150 - Licenses to be recorded — fee.

Section 451.151 - Additional fee for issuing marriage license or certified copies — amount to be collected by county recorder, duty to deposit — how.

Section 451.160 - Names of children born before marriage shall be recorded.

Section 451.170 - Lost record of marriage supplied, how.

Section 451.180 - New certificate obtained, how.

Section 451.190 - Record supplied by certificate of witnesses, how.

Section 451.200 - Certificates and affidavits recorded when records lost or destroyed — fee.

Section 451.210 - Rerecording where marriage records are destroyed — fee.

Section 451.220 - Marriage contracts to be in writing, acknowledged or proved.

Section 451.230 - How acknowledged or proved — to be recorded, where.

Section 451.240 - Contract so recorded shall impart notice, to whom.

Section 451.250 - Married persons to hold real and personal property as separate property — liable for what.

Section 451.260 - Rents of married person's real estate exempt from liability for spouse's debts, when.

Section 451.270 - Property of married person exempt from debts of spouse incurred before marriage.

Section 451.290 - Wife deemed femme sole, when.

Section 451.300 - Conveyance of property when one of the spouses is disabled and under conservatorship or a guardian ad litem is appointed.