Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 507 - Parties
Section 507.170 - Petition and appointment filed before further proceedings.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939
507.170. Petition and appointment filed before further proceedings. — The petition for the appointment of a next friend, the written consent of the person proposed to be next friend, and the order of appointment, shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the court where the suit is proposed to be brought, before any proceedings shall be had in the cause.
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(RSMo 1939 § 865)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 714; 1919 § 1171; 1909 § 1745

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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.