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St. Louis County is located in eastern Missouri. It is bounded by the City of St. Louis and the Mississippi River to the east, the Missouri River to the north, and the Meramec River to the south. At the 2020 census, the total population was 1,004,125, [1] making it the most populous county in Missouri. Its county seat is Clayton. [2]
The Missouri Court of Appeals is the intermediate appellate court for the state of Missouri.The court handles most of the appeals from the Missouri Circuit Courts.The court is divided into three geographic districts: Eastern (based in St. Louis), Western (based in Kansas City), and Southern (based in Springfield). [1]
In common law jurisdictions, probate is the judicial process whereby a will is "proved" in a court of law and accepted as a valid public document that is the true last testament of the deceased; or whereby, in the absence of a legal will, the estate is settled according to the laws of intestacy that apply in the jurisdiction where the deceased resided at the time of their death.
St. Louis County is large—some 6,860 square miles (17,800 km 2)—and Duluth, the county seat, is at the southern end of the county, far removed from the communities of the Iron Range. Local advocacy succeeded in having a second county court district established in 1904, with cases heard in a small frame building.
Merit selection of judges was formally advocated by the Association as early as 1904. The Association's efforts in this area finally bore fruit in 1940 when the state Constitution was amended to establish the nonpartisan court plan in the Supreme Court, the courts of appeals and the circuit and probate courts of St. Louis and Jackson County.
St. Louis County voters can expect longer wait times at polling places on November 5th due to a record-length ballot, with voters required to present current photo ID and register to vote through ...
St. Louis County residents can vote early at 14 locations through November 4, with mail-in ballots accepted until 7 p.m. on Election Day, and voters can check wait times online.
The St. Louis County Law Library in Missouri was established in 1941 as a public law library under Missouri Statute. It is located on the sixth floor of the Courts building in the St. Louis County Courthouse at 105 South Central in Clayton, Missouri. It operates as a public agency, independent of St. Louis County government.