If you are looking for an hourly, document-driven attorney, that is not Mark McMullin. If you are looking for a trusted advisor who is driven to compassionately guide you and your family through the steps of creating an estate plan, becoming eligible for Medicaid, or managing the estate of a loved one, let’s talk.
$8,235 a month
$98,820 a year
Missouri’s average cost of private-pay nursing home care. Forty years of saving can be gone in two.
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Months of delay
at the worst possible time
A family can lose months and thousands of dollars in court — while they are still grieving, and still trying to manage their own lives.
Both are avoidable more often than families are told.
Protecting what Missouri families have spent a lifetime building — through asset-protection trusts, Medicaid crisis planning (spousal and family plans), wills and trusts, and probate. That focus is why other attorneys send us their toughest Medicaid cases.
What we don’t do: divorce or family law, criminal defense, traffic tickets, lawsuits, or personal injury. For those matters, the Missouri Bar’s free Find-a-Lawyer directory is the fastest way to the right attorney.
My background is in finance. I came to this work sideways, and then found I couldn’t leave it.
Our clients are salt-of-the-earth people. They worked their whole lives, saved carefully, and what they want most is for it to make a difference for their children. There are two ways that gets taken from them. A nursing home can wipe out a lifetime of savings. Or a family can lose months and thousands of dollars in court at exactly the moment they are grieving.
Neither one is what anybody pictured. Nobody stands at an altar saying “I do” imagining the day they will have to move their husband into a facility.
I spent years at a general practice firm, and I used to think about the day I would have an office that did nothing but this — with processes built for it, and staff who know the answers when you call. That is the office we built. We don’t dabble.
Something I did not expect when I started: when a client passes away and I meet their children, I get to tell them what their parents said about them years before — that they wanted to make this easy on them. Watching that circle close has become one of the most meaningful parts of this work.
A loved one is in a nursing home — or headed there — and the bills have started. Protecting what remains is the core of our practice.
Wills, trusts, and Missouri’s special protections — built so what you worked for stays in your family, protected from remarriage, divorce, and creditors.
When someone has passed, we handle the court process for your family — or help you plan now so they never need it.
“Almost all the correspondence with my wife’s case worker was handled by Mark and his team. I was able to focus on my wife’s nursing care and leave the stress to them. The result: instead of spending down all our hard-earned money, we were able to protect our assets.”
“My husband suffered a fall and ended up in a long term facility. We do not have any long term care insurance and I was not sure if there was a way to protect any of our assets. I decided to contact the Law Office of Mark McMullin. I am so glad that I did.”
“A will doesn’t protect your estate from probate. You can’t just assume. Mark covers things you never knew you needed. He gave me peace of mind knowing that what I have worked for would be saved for my children.”
Some families call the day they find us. Others need to understand it first. Both are fine.
The fastest way to a straight answer about your family is a conversation. Most first calls take about fifteen minutes.
Come to a free seminar. We hold them around Southeast Missouri, there is no charge and no pressure, and you will leave understanding how Missouri Medicaid actually works.
Start here. Nine questions, about ninety seconds, and nothing is saved or sent to us — you will get a straight answer about whether this is something we can help with.
Nursing home crisis? Take the assessment →
Planning ahead? The Estate Plan Checkup →
Your first week: what to do now →
