In 2019, a woman bought a Missouri home at a tax sale; a beneficiary deed complicated who really owned it; what exactly happened?

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The case is Diana J. Thompson and other v. Heirs of Kathryn L. Metcalf and others. In 2016, a woman in Marshall, Missouri, signed a beneficiary deed transferring her property to her son, Joseph, upon her death. The ownership was passed on to him as Kathryn died in November 2016, and under the…