Living Trusts

Incapacity Isn’t Theoretical—And the Law Doesn’t Wait One day you’re signing checks, making calls, running your own life. The next, a stroke or a wreck or slow decline cuts you…

The False Beliefs That Leave People Unprepared I’ve heard it at kitchen tables and across plastic waiting room chairs—young adults in Missouri telling themselves estate planning only matters for the…

The Switch Flips at 18 The law doesn’t care if the refrigerator is still full of your groceries or if your name’s on your parents’ insurance—turn 18 in Missouri, and…

Doing Right by Your People, Even When You’re Gone No one dreams of filling out paperwork. Sitting at a kitchen table, pages scattered, the impulse is to put it off,…

What Estate Planning Really Means Estate planning starts with a real desk. Not some cloud, not a theory—a desk covered in stamped files, stacked folders, the faint smell of ink.…

Setting Up Security for the People You Leave Behind Nobody likes paperwork. But deciding who gets your house, who makes sure the bills are paid if you’re laid up, who…

Every Missouri parent with young kids runs into the same crossroads: how do we build something steady for them if something happens to us? Paperwork is only part of it.…

The Ground Rules: What a Missouri Will Really Means A real Missouri will isn’t about paperwork; it’s about order—about who takes what, who steps up for your kids, who keeps…

Missouri Law on What Makes a Will Hold Up A last will and testament cuts straight to the heart of what happens after you’re gone. In Missouri, there’s no room…

The Framework: How Missouri Sees a Legal Will Death has a way of forcing decisions. In Missouri, a will is the legal road map for everything left behind. Without it,…