On your child’s 18th birthday, the ground shifts. Suddenly, the law sees your son or daughter as an adult. You’re still paying tuition and keeping the insurance cards updated, but…

What a Missouri Estate Inventory Really Means—and Why Most Folks Would Rather Skip It Someone dies. There are assets in their name, no joint owner, nothing in trust. The Missouri…

How Missouri Timeshares Are Actually Owned Drive south on Highway 54. You’ll see billboards for Branson and the Lake of the Ozarks. Plenty of Missouri families bought timeshares out there—maybe…

Someone collapses in a house on Cottage Grove Avenue. Lights glare. Hospital staff look for orders—nothing. A durable power of attorney for healthcare would have made it simple. In Missouri,…

The Challenge of Blended Family Planning People get married again for all kinds of reasons. But when you try to plan for the future—who gets what, who gets left behind—it…

Some choices need a steady hand and a clear head. Naming a trust as the beneficiary of your 401(k) in Missouri is one of them. Do it right, and the…

The Move from Pen and Paper to Pixels Change finally arrives in law’s oldest corners. Starting in 2026, under the new Missouri Electronic Wills and Trusts Act (HB 2037, 2024…

You watch your kid pack for college, maybe standing in the parking lot outside the dorm at Truman State or A.T. Still. The next morning, the law treats them like…

When Life Changes, So Should Your Trust People draft revocable living trusts to keep their affairs from falling into disorder after they're gone. That’s the practical goal. Families shift. Money…

What a Personal Representative Does—and Where Things Go Wrong You see a personal representative step in, paperwork under one arm, when a Missouri estate hits probate. Sometimes they’re named in…