Legal in Missouri

Stobie Family Law Group LLC

St. Louis, MO

Stobie Family Law Group is a St. Louis firm led by Laura Stobie, with Kenzie Mooty, Dawn Blunda and Margaret Boudreau practicing alongside her. Family law is the center of the work: divorce, child custody, paternity, child support, property division, prenuptial agreements, domestic violence matters, post-divorce modifications and appeals, including higher net worth cases where dividing the assets is the genuinely difficult part. Adoption and juvenile matters are handled here as well. What makes the firm worth knowing for LGBTQ+ families is that estate law sits in the same practice. Wills, trusts, probate, guardianships and estate litigation run alongside the family work, and those two areas are exactly where the distance between a family's reality and the law's assumptions tends to show. A non-biological parent's relationship to a child is not something Missouri law simply assumes, and a chosen family inherits nothing by default. Making the adoption, the guardianship nomination and the estate documents agree with one another is one job rather than three, and it goes better when a single firm can see all of it at once. The firm describes its approach as compassionate and client-centred, which in this area of law is less a slogan than a working requirement.