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I am dedicated to managing probate and trust administration along with estate, high support needs, and elder law planning. My practice encompasses traditional estate planning, special/high support needs planning, and elder law. Additionally, I provide services in probate and trust administration, guardianship, conservatorship, and minor inheritance issues.

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Missouri

Director

Support on the Spectrum

2024 - Current

Director

Legal Services for Families of Missouri

2020 - Current

Director of the legal non-profit Legal Services for Families of Missouri offering income based legal services.

Contract Panel Attorney

Missouri State Public Defender

2019 - 2021

Volunteer Attorney

CASA

2019 - 2021

Volunteer Guardian ad Litem for child in abuse and neglect matters

Attorney

Legal Aid of Western Missouri

2018 - 2019

Attorney

Kiske Law Office

2017 - 2018

University of Missouri - Kansas City

B.A. | Criminology and Criminal Justice

Honors: Cum Laude

University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law

J.D. | Law

Honors: Cum Laude Pro Bono Honors

Gold Best Elder Law, Silver Best Estate Law

Kansas City Favorite Magazine

2024

Gold Best Elder Law, Silver Best Estate Law

Silver Best Elder Law

Kansas City Favorite Magazine

2023

Silver Best Elder Law

Best Probate Attorneys in Kansas City 2022

Expertise

2022

2021 Missouri & Kansas Rising Stars list

Super Lawyer

2021

Best Probate Attorneys in Kansas City 2021

Expertise

2021

The Missouri Bar

Member

Current

Association for Women Lawyers of Greater Kansas City

Member

Current

Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association

Member

Current

CASA

Volunteer Attorney

Current

Missouri State Public Defender

Special Public Defender

Current

Guardianship: When a Child Turns 18

Missouri Probate Process Explained

Guardian ad Litem

Missouri State Bar

Missouri Supreme Court Approved Mediator

Missouri State Bar

Q. I had no relationship with the mother (wasn’t boyfriend or anything to her) does she have the right to put child support

March 29, 2019

A: Generally, the presumption in Missouri is that both parents are financially responsible for their child. The presumption does not go away because the parents were not in a relationship.

There are a variety of factors the court looks at when determining child support including but not limited to the following:  

(1) The financial needs and resources of the child;

(2) The financial resources and needs of the parents;

(3) The standard of living the child would have enjoyed had the marriage not been dissolved;

(4) The physical and emotional condition of the child, and the child’s educational needs;

(5) The child’s physical and legal custody arrangements, including the amount of time the child spends with each parent and the reasonable expenses associated with the custody or visitation arrangements; and

(6) The reasonable work-related child care expenses of each parent.

Child support will terminate if the child:

(1) Dies;

(2) Marries;

(3) Enters active duty in the military;

(4) Becomes self-supporting, provided that the custodial parent has relinquished the child from parental control by express or implied consent;

(5) Reaches age eighteen, unless the provisions of 4 or 5; or

(6) Reaches age twenty-one, unless the provisions of the child support order specifically extend the parental support order past the child’s twenty-first birthday for reasons provided by subsection 4.

Finally, if the child is physically or mentally incapacitated from supporting himself and insolvent and unmarried, the court may extend the parental support obligation past the child’s eighteenth birthday. If and when a child reaches age eighteen, and the child is enrolled in and attending a secondary school program of instruction, the parental support obligation shall continue. ... Read More