Missouri’s Age of Majority: A Sharp Line Eighteen is just a date on the calendar until it isn’t. In Missouri, that birthday turns a minor into a legal adult—the “age…
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…
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…