Legal Insights for Real Estate & Estate Planning

Key Takeaways Families often use trusts to control how and when a minor receives an inheritance. A trustee can manage assets responsibly until a child reaches adulthood. Common options include revocable, testamentary, discretionary, educational, and incentive trusts. Distributions can be staggered by age or milestone instead of given as one lump sum. Missouri law...

Key Takeaways Missouri law requires a valid will to be written, signed, and witnessed by at least two people. A will may be voided by improper execution, fraud, forgery, or a testator lacking mental capacity. Undue influence, coercion, or manipulation can render a will legally invalid in Missouri courts. Missouri law allows revocation through...

Key takeaways There is no one success rate for challenging a will, as the outcome is dependent on the grounds, evidence, and stage at which a dispute is settled. The accepted reasons for disputing a will are undue influence, mental incompetence, fraud, coercion, and faulty execution. Medical data, witness evidence, and estate planning paperwork...