Mary S. Shafer
Counsel
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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