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Life Insurance Beneficiary Designations: The Trouble with the Obvious Choice The phone rings at the wrong hour, or the doctor gives you a look—they’re moments no new parent wants to…

No one forgets the first time they saw that positive test or held a black-and-white sonogram. Suddenly, everything shifts—schedules, sleep, and the old assumptions about control. For Missouri parents waiting…

Turning 18 in Missouri: The Split Between Family and Law Your child turns 18. Their bedroom’s still a mess, but somewhere in the paperwork, Missouri law now counts them as…

The Shift No One Warns You About He turns 18. You watch him drive off to school, another check in the books. At that moment, the law draws a line.…

Paperwork Is Secondary—It's About the People Left Behind A man sits at his kitchen table late at night, papers spread out—wills, powers of attorney, maybe a trust draft with coffee…

Hard Realities: Long-Term Care Tied to Everything You’ve Worked For Old age isn’t what it used to be. People in Missouri are living longer, but a long life means at…

Estate Plans Gather Dust, But Life Doesn't Life moves. Documents don’t. A will drawn up years ago gathers dust in a drawer while the family it was meant to guide…

Eighteen years come and go. Quiet birthday, maybe a handshake or two. In Missouri, that’s the legal line—a kid steps across and becomes an adult, at least in statute’s eyes.…

You spend years building a business. Missouri doesn’t hand out second chances to the careless. Anyone who’s signed real loan papers or had to cover payroll on a bad month…

You picture an estate plan, you probably see some old family compound, white columns, maybe a trust fund kid. That’s not Missouri. That’s not most places, really. Here, an estate…