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Ms. Dilley concentrates her practice in the areas of trusts and wills, decedent's estates and probate, and family business succession planning.

Ms. Dilley has been involved in structuring and implementing estate plans for a broad range of estate sizes.  She has many years of experience with sophisticated estate tax planning through the use of family limited partnerships, grantor retained annuity trusts, charitable remainder and lead trusts, insurance trusts, residence trusts, and family business succession techniques.  Additionally, she has broad experience with the administration of decedents' estates and the preparation of estate and gift tax returns.  Ms. Dilley devotes much of her efforts in helping families create the structures that assure continuing protection for younger generations.  She is one of the "recommended" attorneys for families with "special needs" descendants.

Ms. Dilley was a columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for seven years.  The column covered topics pertaining to estate planning, elder law, business succession planning, and probate.

Prior to entering the practice of law, Ms. Dilley was a high school teacher.  As an estate planning attorney, she is still teaching by making sure her clients understand the available planning opportunities and the consequences of each choice.

Bar Admissions:

Missouri, 1987

Professional Associations and Memberships:

The Missouri Bar
Member

American Bar Association
Member

Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, recent Chair of the Probate and Trust Section
Member

Estate Planning Council of St. Louis - President
Member

Missouri Botanical Garden - Member of the Gift and Bequest Council
Member

Education:

Saint Louis University School of Law, St Louis, Missouri, 1987
Juris Doctor
Honors: Cum Laude

University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 1971
M.L.S., Masters of Library Science

University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 1965
B.A.