Family Law

• Divorce
• Premarital Agreement
  Estate Planning The firm offers estate plans tailored to our client’s goals for those clients interested in maintaining management and control of their estate while at the same time avoiding probate, protecting family members, ensuring financial privacy, and obtaining peace of mind. Our estate planning services include drafting of revocable living trusts, special needs trusts, wills, powers of attorney, health care directives and living wills, and prenuptial and postnuptial agreements. Our services go beyond basic document drafting, incorporating tax and re-titling advice and plan implementation.
• Guardianship
  Guardianships and Conservatorships Making the decision to seek a guardianship and/or conservatorship for a disabled loved one can be difficult. Our attorneys are sensitive to those difficulties, and represent clients in guardianship and conservatorship proceedings for full guardianship and conservatorship actions, limited guardianships or conservatorships, or minor estates. After the appointment, our firm assists guardians and conservators with initial ward placement and asset allocation as well as annual accountings to the court.

Business and Corporate Law

• Business Formation
  Business Formation and Advice The form of business entity a new business chooses affects every aspect of its operations. Our attorneys assist clients in formation and business planning, and in deciding whether they should operate as a closely held business, limited liability company, partnership, or corporation. Once the entity choice is selected, we draft all appropriate documents, insure registration is done properly with the state, obtain appropriate tax identification numbers for the entity, and set up corporate records books.

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  Real Estate Our firm attorneys have an excellent understanding of the intricacies of real estate law, and can represent clients in acquisition, financing, leasing, and tax free exchanges. We represent both buyers and sellers in residential, commercial and industrial real estate transactions. As negotiators, we understand all the parties’ legitimate needs and work to resolve them and provide a successful outcome for our clients.
• Real Estate Transactions
• Property Damage

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  Personal injury is a physical or mental injury to a person caused by negligence or a harmful act. Personal injury is also known as bodily injury.
• Medical Malpractice
  Civil litigation is a lawsuit between two or more people or entities that does not seek criminal sanctions. The remedy sought in civil litigation is usually money or a judgment that requires one party to do something or to stop doing something. Civil litigation encompasses many different kinds of cases, such as personal injury, breach of contract, discrimination, medical malpractice, will contests and real estate disputes.
• Auto Accidents
• Medicaid Planning
  In the areas of elder law, Medicaid planning, and estate planning, our attorneys provide an in-depth analysis of the client’s personal legal situation with recommended actions after an initial conference at no charge, and quote all fees prior to commencing work.

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  South County Senior Law & Estate Planning Center, LLC is located in South Saint Louis County in the Oakville Office Center. The firm offers a wide range of legal services, representing clients primarily in the areas of...
• Wills
  Probate & Trust Administration Our probate and trust administration services include administration of full probate estates, both independent and supervised, small estates, spousal and creditor refusals of letters, discovery of asset proceedings, and will contests. We serve as corporate trustee and advisor to trustees of all types of trusts, including Special Needs Trusts. We also advise trustees and assist in preparation of annual accountings, trust liquidation, and other trust administration services.
• Trusts
  If the trust is created with the disabled person’s funds, any funds deposited into a SNT after the disabled individual reaches age 65 can result in a loss in public benefits. However, funds can still be deposited into a “pooled trust” for a disabled individual who is 65 or older, and the disabled person will not lose Medicaid benefits. The Missouri legislature authorized such trusts, through a non-profit known as the Midwest Special Needs Trust (“MSNT”). MSNT will accept any size SNT (even very small amounts) to create a pooled trust account for the disabled individual, and its trustee fees are reasonable. A family member generally serves as co-trustee with MSNT in managing trust funds. There is no age restrictions if the trust is created and funded by a third party.
• Power of Attorney
  A durable power of attorney is a document that you execute to give another person (known as the agent) the right to act on your behalf regarding your financial affairs in the event that you become incapacitated.
• Probate

Finance Law

• Tax Law
  The unlimited marital deduction is a provision of federal tax law which allows a married individual to transfer as many assets during life or at death to his or her spouse (as long as the spouse is a US citizen), without any gift or estate tax consequences.