Mary S. Shafer

Ms. Shafer’s area of practice is estate and trust taxation, administration of trusts, and probate and conservatorship estates. She prepares analysis and recommendations on complex estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax issues. She also specializes in issues involving Foundations and other tax-exempt organizations.

Court Memberships

  • Missouri
  • Kansas

Honors

  • Order of the Bench and Robe
  • University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review, Member

Professional Affiliations

  • The Missouri Bar, Probate Committee
  • The Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association

Publications

  • Co-author, Exempt Property, Family Allowance, Homestead and Election to Take Against the Will, Chapter 8, Missouri Estate Administration Deskbook, Fifth Edition
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T: 816.460.5415
F: 816.292.2001
Assistant
Melissa Whitesel
816.460.5366

Practices

Education

University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, J.D., 1984

Southeast Missouri State University, B.A., Political Science, summa cum laude, 1981