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.

Areas of Focus

Services

Credentials

Education

  • University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law (J.D., 1984)
  • Southeast Missouri State University (B.A., Political Science, summa cum laude, 1981)

Admissions

Bar Admissions

  • Kansas
  • Missouri

Recognitions

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

Publications

  • Co-author, Exempt Property, Family Allowance, Homestead and Election to Take Against the Will, Chapter 8, Missouri Estate Administration Deskbook, Fifth Edition

Professional Activities

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