The Missouri Bar has developed a handbook entitled, "Business Law Resource Guide." This guide has very useful information for understanding The American Disabilities Act in the workplace. To view the chapter concerning discrimination in the workplace just click on the pdf file below.
This is a brochure developed by the Missouri Department of Social Services. If you click on this link you will be leaving this website. To return, simply press the blue back button on the upper left of your desktop.
Paternity Brochure From Missouri DHSS
Requirements for a Valid Marriage
A marriage causes many legal consequences that affect a couple’s future life together, including: filing tax returns, employment-related benefit pro- grams, the legal right to inherit assets if your spouse dies and, if there is a divorce, issues of support, maintenance (formerly called alimony), child custody and division of property.
The Missouri Bar discusses buying a home, buying on credit and tenant rights in their handbook.
To review this manual in pdf format, click on the link below:
What is a “Durable” Power of Attorney?
Many people are unaware that an ordinary power of attorney is revoked, and the agent’s power to act for the principal automatically stops, if the principal becomes incapacitated.
Under Missouri law, and the law of many other states, a power of attorney with proper wording may be made “durable.” This means that the power of the agent to act on the principal’s behalf continues despite the principal’s incapacity, whether or not a court decrees the principal to be incapacitated.
What is a Guardian?
A guardian is a person who has been appointed by a court (usually the probate division of the circuit court) to have the care and custody of a minor or of an adult person who has been legally determined to be incapacitated.
What is a Conservator?
Child Care Assistance Program in Missouri - printer friendly view.
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Printer Friendly View in attached pdf format - Revised 2012.