Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 507 - Parties
Section 507.140 - Appointment when minor is under fourteen years old.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939
507.140. Appointment when minor is under fourteen years old. — If such infant be under the age of fourteen years, the appointment of a next friend may be made upon like petition of a relative or friend of the infant, in which case a notice thereof must first be given to the person with whom such infant resides.
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(RSMo 1939 § 862)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 711; 1919 § 1168; 1909 § 1742

Structure Missouri Revised Statutes

Missouri Revised Statutes

Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations

Chapter 507 - Parties

Section 507.010 - Prosecution in name of real party in interest.

Section 507.020 - Action on claim under foreign law.

Section 507.030 - Persons having a joint interest shall be made plaintiffs — defendants, when.

Section 507.040 - Permissive joinder of parties — separate trials.

Section 507.050 - Misjoinder of parties.

Section 507.060 - Persons having claims against plaintiff or plaintiff's insured may be joined as defendants and required to interplead, when — limitation on liability, when — dismissal not required, when.

Section 507.070 - Class actions — representatives — secondary actions by stockholders — dismissal or compromise.

Section 507.080 - Third-party notice — when defendant may bring in third party — notice to plaintiff — third party to file petition, when.

Section 507.090 - Intervention — when as of right and when permissive — procedure.

Section 507.100 - Substitution of parties upon death, mental incapacity or transfer of interest.

Section 507.110 - Suits by infants, how prosecuted.

Section 507.115 - Infant defined for civil suit purposes.

Section 507.120 - Appointment of next friend, by whom.

Section 507.130 - How appointed.

Section 507.140 - Appointment when minor is under fourteen years old.

Section 507.150 - Bond of person acting for infant, when — effect of failure to give.

Section 507.160 - Bond filed, where.

Section 507.170 - Petition and appointment filed before further proceedings.

Section 507.180 - Guardian, conservator and next friend liable for costs.

Section 507.182 - Next friend, conservator, or guardian may employ attorney and incur expenses.

Section 507.184 - Powers of next friend, GAL, conservator or guardian on trial and settlement — court approval — settlement of claims permitted.

Section 507.186 - Substitution of conservator for next friend or guardian ad litem — effect of contracts.

Section 507.188 - Disposition of proceeds of claim — discharge of next friend or guardian ad litem.

Section 507.190 - Suits against infants not to proceed without guardian ad litem.

Section 507.200 - Appointment of guardian ad litem.

Section 507.210 - Appointment of guardian ad litem, when.

Section 507.220 - Guardian ad litem, liable only for costs in case of misconduct.

Section 507.230 - Who made defendants in suit against city.