Bill Text: MO HB1427 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Specifies that a trustee and the attorney he or she retains must be afforded all the protections granted under attorney-client privilege
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-19 - HCS Voted Do Pass (H) [HB1427 Detail]
Download: Missouri-2014-HB1427-Introduced.html
SECOND REGULAR SESSION
97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE MCGAUGH.
5415L.01I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapter 456, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to the confidentiality between a trustee and an attorney.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 456, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 456.8-818, to read as follows:
456.8-818. A trustee's engagement of an attorney for any purpose shall afford all of the protection of the attorney-client privilege as that privilege has been developed and defined in this state. The attorney's client shall be deemed to be the trustee exclusively. No exception to the privilege shall be allowed based on whether the attorney's services are utilized in the administration of a trust or otherwise but all other exceptions to the privilege recognized by law shall remain applicable if warranted by the evidence.
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