The Hallauer Law Office Difference

Our estate planning is far more pervasive than others. We pride ourselves on our service and attention to detail. Your complete satisfaction and confidence are important to us. This philosophy has led us to close working relationships with our clients.

Estate planning conferences with us are always free of charge, regardless of how many times you conference with us. You incur no charge until we actually prepare a document for you. Our estate planning fee includes personally tailored document preparation, detailed instructions for titling assets and beneficiary designations, forms for written distribution of tangible personal property, and a personal information form to advise your family of vital information about your personal desires such as funeral plans, burial plans, location of vital documents, etc. Also included is free access to attorneys or staff through telephone of office conferences or by e-mail.

We regularly review your records, will contact you periodically to review your finances, your health and your family relationships in order to determine if changes in probate or tax laws have impacted your estate planning documents, all at no additional charge to you. We conduct these reviews at your request or approximately every 3 years.

Debra Davis Hallauer

Debra Davis Hallauer graduated with an undergraduate degree in business and a Juris Doctor’s degree in law. She has also earned a master’s degree in taxation law (LL.M.)

She is a member of the Missouri Bar Association, the Kansas Bar Association, the Probate and Trust Subcommittee of the Missouri and Kansas City Bar Associations and is a member of the Estate Planning Society of Kansas City, The Estate Planning Council of Eastern Kansas, the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, and Kingdom Advisors.

She has coauthored a two-volume treatise entitled The Law of Health-Care Decision-Making and has lectured in estate planning classes at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law and in continuing education classes to other estate planning attorneys.

Ms. Hallauer has engaged in the private practice of law since passing the Missouri and Kansas bars in 1990 and limits her practice to estate planning (wills, trusts, probate, inheritance tax and estate tax).

The Business Journal names Ms. Hallauer on the top five estate planning/probate attorneys in its “Best of the Bar” publication.