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Protecting You & Your Loved Ones Personally and Financially

Estep Shawn

Welcome

Our St. Louis estate planning law firm has served hundreds of clients throughout Eastern Missouri since 1996.  My focus continues to be helping families and individuals protect themselves and their loved ones personally and financially by planning for their specific needs.

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Estate Planning

There are many legal strategies involved in estate planning, including wills, revocable living trusts, irrevocable trusts, durable powers of attorney, and health care documents. New clients often say that they do not have an estate plan. Most people are surprised to learn that they actually do have a plan. In the absence of legal planning otherwise, their estate will be distributed after death according to Missouri’s laws of intestacy. Of course, this may not be the plan they would have chosen. A properly drafted estate plan will replace the terms of the State’s estate plan with your own. Start the process and create your estate plan alongside an estate planning lawyer.

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Trusts

Trusts come in many “flavors,” they can be simple or complex, and serve a variety of legal, personal, investment or tax planning purposes.

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Powers of

Attorney

A power of attorney is a legal document giving another person (the attorney-in-fact) the legal right (powers) to do certain things for you.

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Advance Directives

An advance directive is an estate planning document that specifies the type of medical and personal care you would want should you lose the ability to make and communicate your own decisions.

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Long-Term Care

Long-term care is a set of services that meet both medical and non-medical needs of a person that has a chronic illness or is disabled and not fully able to care for themselves for an extended period.

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Medicaid

Medicaid is a needs-based health care benefits program governed by Federal and State statute but administered by the individual states.

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VA Benefits

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) provides a needs based benefit for veterans and their surviving spouses through the Aid and Attendance Pension Program.

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Long-Term

Care Planning

Helping a parent move to senior housing can seem more intimidating than orchestrating a rocket launch.

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Last Will

& Testament

If a person dies without a Will, state laws will determine how and to whom the person’s assets will be distributed. 

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Probate &
Trust Administration

There can be terrific grief and pain at the loss of a loved one. Beyond grief and pain, when you add external stresses to the equation you can have a disaster on your hands in very short order. Part of the responsibilities or duties of an executor or administrator of an estate can be to reduce the level of stress during the Missouri probate process.

Learn more about the Missouri probate process and how representatives can assist with the process.

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Additional Services

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Succession Planning

The retirement, disability or death of the business owner are all common events that can trigger a business transfer.

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Special Needs Planning

A power of attorney is a legal document giving another person (the attorney-in-fact) the legal right (powers) to do certain things for you.

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Testimonials  

"Very Professional and knowledgeable Attorney"

- Kevin Carroll

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