Our firm, founded by Melissa Leavy, a St. Louis-based elder law attorney, focuses on helping elderly and disabled persons with their legal needs. This could include assistance with paying for skilled care, ensuring their wishes are honored, protecting assets through a special needs trust or other type of trust, protecting existing government benefits if ongoing benefit coverage is threatened, and a variety of other issues related to aging, illness, and family planning.  In addition, we help people of all ages with estate planning and tax planning issues for passing wealth after death without the need for probate and planning for the possibility of future incapacity.

Melissa Leavy is an licensed attorney offering assistance in the following practice areas:

• Long Term Care Planning
• Medicaid Planning
• Veterans Benefits
• Estate Planning
• Special Needs Planning
• Trust & Probate Administration
• Settlements and Awards from Lawsuits