Your state’s pack. New issues arrive periodically on Mondays. Bookmark it. I built this for the Missouri T&E solo who knows its own Probate Code (RSMo ch. 472–475) cold but still loses an afternoon a week hunting the current homestead number, the MO HealthNet posture, whether the latest opinion from Missouri Office of Legal Ethics Counsel changes how you scope an engagement, or whether a recent Missouri Court of Appeals decision just moved the law on capacity, undue influence, or a trustee’s duties. What’s below is what mattered in Missouri lately — the week’s developments and the recent rulings from the bench.
For licensed attorneys. This pack is general legal information and professional commentary for practicing attorneys — it is not legal advice, does not apply to any specific matter, and creates no attorney-client relationship. Verify every authority against the cited primary source before relying on it with a client. Published by Mike Moss, a Utah-admitted attorney, as an AI-enablement information product; it is not an offer of legal services and is not a representation that the author is admitted to practice in your jurisdiction.
Three developments from the last seven days that I think actually matter to a Missouri T&E solo. Each one has a read that lands on your practice specifically — and each one comes with the citation so you can verify the detail yourself before you use it with a client.
Per the Missouri Senate bill tracker, Gov. Kehoe signed HB 754 / SB 221 — the Missouri Uniform Electronic Wills and Electronic Estate Planning Documents Act — on July 10, 2025. It applies to wills of decedents dying on or after Aug. 28, 2025, and to estate-planning documents signed or remotely witnessed on or after that date.
Any Missouri client signing online or witnessing remotely is now governed by new execution mechanics. Confirm the new electronic-execution and witnessing steps against the statute before relying on a remotely-executed instrument, and update intake and execution checklists that still assume wet-ink signing only.
Missouri Senate Bill Tracker · HB 754 / SB 221 · SENATE.MO.GOV
The Missouri Bar’s Probate & Trust Division-endorsed package — trust situs notice with a 60-day governing-law warning, trust termination, electronic estate planning, and validation of emergency/COVID-era remote witnessing — passed the General Assembly and took effect Aug. 28, 2025.
The 60-day situs notice with its governing-law warning is the easiest of the four to miss. If you move a trust’s situs into or out of Missouri, calendar the notice the day the situs changes, and refresh any template still silent on the warning.
The Missouri Bar · News · NEWS.MOBAR.ORG
The MO HealthNet Division’s current estate-recovery page confirms the live procedure: under RSMo 473.398 the personal representative must obtain and file a Division release before the estate of a MO HealthNet enrollee can close, with the statutory exemptions (surviving spouse; child under 21 or blind/disabled; recipient under 55) intact.
Keep the Division release on the closing checklist for every enrollee’s estate. A representative who petitions to close without it stalls the estate — and the release, not the family’s assumption that benefits were a gift, is what the court will look for.
MO HealthNet Division · Estate Recovery · DSS.MO.GOV
Decisions that bind a Missouri practitioner — Missouri’s appellate courts and the federal courts covering Missouri, including the U.S. Eighth Circuit — read for what actually changes how you draft, advise, and plan. Trusts and estates broadly, not Medicaid alone: wills and capacity, undue influence, fiduciary duty, trust construction, and estate recovery. One read, the holding, and the official cite.
This lane reads each new opinion from Missouri’s appellate courts and the federal courts covering Missouri (Eighth Circuit) before anything lands here, and reads-and-discards matters that aren’t trusts-and-estates — criminal, family, commercial/LLC fiduciary, tax, and cases where an estate or trust is only a party. For this period’s trailing window, no new verified trusts-and-estates or estate-recovery decision from those courts was identified in the sources reviewed.
Nothing to re-paper from the bench this period; controlling authority is unchanged. When the next verified T&E ruling issues, it lands here with the holding and the official cite.
Controlling authority unchanged · Missouri appellate courts · U.S. Eighth Circuit.
This week in Missouri for the T&E solo with MO HealthNet clients: the developments from The Missouri Bar and MO HealthNet (DSS) that actually moved your practice this period — each one primary-source verified.
Bar and Medicaid changes land on different schedules and aren’t indexed by practice focus. Every item here was checked against its primary source, with the link, so you can verify before relying on it.