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Joseph R. Burcke is a St. Louis, Missouri based attorney whose practice focuses upon estate planning issues, including representation of disabled individuals and their families. He provides clients advice upon the appropriate use of Wills, Trusts, Powers of Attorney, Non-probate beneficiary designations and other legal techniques to maintain client control of assets, avoid needless costs of probate in the event of disability or death, prevent impoverishment as a result of nursing home costs, and minimize estate and gift taxes and related costs.. Joe is devoted entirely to helping families preserve and protect their future and the futures of their children through appropriate estate planning. This includes development of Wills, Trusts, and sophisticated planning techniques for clients, as well as Trust and Estate Administration, Elder Law Planning, including Medicaid, Special Needs and Life Care Planning issues. He has helped thousands of people who are concerned about protecting their families from the devastating legal effects of disability and death. Through public and private seminars, professional continuing education seminars and numerous articles, both for other attorneys and the general public, Joseph R. Burcke strives to inform other professionals and the public of the need to properly plan for the future. He is dedicated to helping people protect their children, their assets, provide for their loved ones and plan for life's contingencies through proper estate planning.

John P. Fritz is the founder and managing member of Fritz Law LLC. As a St. Louis native, John has gained extensive experience over the past 8 years representing clients ranging from individuals to large multinational corporations. John left a mid-sized law firm and started Fritz Law LLC after recognizing that a small, highly specialized law practice could provide more effective and cost-efficient results for his clients.. John has represented clients in a number of jurisdictions all over the United States, including St. Louis, Madison County, St. Clair County, Chicago, New York and New Jersey. He has taken hundreds of depositions and has participated in dozens of trial teams, including multiple cases that have been tried to verdict.. John received his bachelor’s degree from John Carroll University and obtained his law degree from St. Louis University. He is admitted to practice law in Missouri, Illinois and New York. John is a member of the Missouri Bar Association, the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, the Lawyers Association of St. Louis, the Illinois State Bar Association, the New York Bar Association and the American Bar Association.

I have extensive experience in Probate Administration (handling the Probate Estate of a recently deceased family member or friend), Trust Administration (usually helping a Trustee or Sucessor Trustee with their duties as outlined in a Trust), and Estate Planning matters (usually consists of the preparation or amending of legal documents such as Wills, Trusts, Health Care Directives, Powers of Attorney, Deeds, etc.).

I am the founder of the Law Office of Caleb A. Petersen, LLC representing clients in personal injury, car accidents, probate and fiduciary litigation matters as well as guardianships.. A large portion of my practice includes the highly specialized and complex area of the law that the majority of attorneys do not practice and what many refer to as adversarial probate claims. This area of the law includes, will contests, breach of fiduciary duties, removal of trustees, actions for accounting of trust assets, recovery of trust/probate property, trust contests and improper use of power of attorney powers. Due to the highly sensitive and often emotionally charged nature of these disputes I work hard to make sure that my client goals and needs are meet while at the same time advocating for their rights. I strongly believe that when a lawyer truly cares about their client's case and stands as a true advocate for the client that positive results are sure to follow.. In addition to probate and estate litigation I represent clients in a variety of personal injury claims the most common of which are car accidents.  For those that have been in a serious accident and sustained injuries it can be a life altering event followed by expensive medical bills that must be paid. In every personal injury case I accept it is my goal to get each and every client the fair value of their case which allows them to get the medical treatment they need, pay for that medical treatment and still receive compensation for their pain and suffering.. Prior to opening my private law practice I gained invaluable litigation experience by working as a legal clerk for the long time St. Louis firm of Leritz, Plunkert and Bruning and the California law firm of Law Office of Aaron F. Garcia handling real estate litigation. Additionally, during law school I was part of the Elder Law Clinic at Saint Louis University School of Law providing elderly individuals with estate planning needs as well as handling guardianship proceedings.. I live with my wife and son in the Shaw Neighborhood where we are committed to the St. Louis community. In what free time I do have I enjoy fishing camping and being in the great outdoors.

Focusing his law practice on the litigation of wills, trusts, and estates, Michael George represents both plantiffs and defendents in will contests, trust contests, estate claims, and breach of fiduciary duty cases. Michael George works tirelessly to acheive the results a client wants.

Bob practices in the areas of business emergence, growth, mergers and acquisitions, capital transactions and reorganization, often finding himself in more of a strategic advisory role. He represents clients in the full range of leveraged buyouts, stock and asset acquisitions of public and private companies, divestitures, spin-offs, going private transactions, and the like. Transactions range in size from start up to several hundred million dollars, domestically as well as globally. Bob also provides advice and counsel to individuals and businesses concerning general business representation, taxation, estate planning, succession planning, real estate contracts, commercial lending, debt documentation and UCC. Bob is a founding member of Affinity Law Group, LLC.

A founding attorney of Wiseheart Kaiser Law Firm, St. Louis estate planning lawyer Barbara Wiseheart is committed to providing every client with quality legal services. Since earning her J.D. in 1998, she has helped people navigate an array of complex and difficult situations, ranging from wills and trusts to probate, litigation, and more. She is particularly passionate about helping those clients who are dealing with often stressful and time-consuming elder law issues. She is an educator in the legal field, having served as a professor at St. Louis Community College at Meramec. Call the firm today for a consultation.