Missouri Revised Statutes Title XXIV. Business and Financial Institutions § 370.275. Trust accounts, requirements--beneficiaries' rights--payment a discharge of liability, when--death of trust account owner, procedure

Shares, share certificates, deposits and deposit certificates may be held in the name of a member in trust for a beneficiary, in the name of a nonmember in trust for a beneficiary who is a member or in the name of a trustee of a trust of which a member is grantor, trustee or beneficiary. Beneficiaries may be a minor or minors. No beneficiary, trustee or grantor of a trust, unless a member in his or her own right, shall be permitted to vote, obtain loans, or hold office. Payment of part or all of such a trust account to the party in whose name the account is held shall, to the extent of such payment, discharge the liability of the credit union to that party and to the beneficiary, and the credit union shall be under no obligation to see to the application of such payment. In the event of death of the party in whose name a trust account is held, and if the credit union has been given no other written notice of the existence or terms of any trust, account funds and any dividends or interest thereon shall be paid to the beneficiary.