Mary S. Shafer
Mary 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 focuses on issues involving Foundations and other tax-exempt organizations.
Publications
- Co-author, Exempt Property, Family Allowance, Homestead and Election to Take Against the Will, Chapter 8, Missouri Estate Administration Deskbook, Fifth Edition
Professional Affiliations
- The Missouri Bar, Probate Committee
- The Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
Honors
- Order of the Bench and Robe
- University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review, Member

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Kansas City
2345 Grand Blvd.Suite 2200Kansas City, MO 64108
T: 816.460.5415
F: 816.292.2001
Assistant
Melissa Whitesel
816.460.5366
816.460.5366
Court Memberships
- Missouri
- Kansas
Education
University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, J.D., 1984
Southeast Missouri State University, B.A., Political Science, summa cum laude, 1981