Colleen M. Donohue

Colleen M. Donohue is an attorney with Michael E. Magliari, P.C. in Chesterfield, Missouri, where she has worked since 2000. Her practice focuses on estate planning and estate administration. She helps clients develop and implement straightforward and sophisticated estate plans, charitable planning strategies, lifetime gifting techniques, antenuptial agreements, and asset protection approaches. Her work also includes basic real estate matters and business creation and succession planning when those issues form part of a broader estate plan.

Colleen earned a J.D. from Saint Louis University School of Law in 2000 and a B.A. from Indiana University in 1997, with a double major in Political Science and History and a minor in Music. Her education supports legal work requiring careful drafting, tax awareness, statutory analysis, and long-term planning. She later returned to Saint Louis University School of Law as an adjunct professor, teaching estate planning and contributing practical experience to legal education.

Colleen assists clients with post-death probate and trust administration, including the preparation of federal estate tax returns. She has served on the Missouri Bar Probate and Trust Committee and participated in the drafting committee for the Missouri Uniform Trust Code. She has presented continuing legal education programs for attorneys and co-authored a chapter on trust administration in the Missouri Bar Deskbook Series, reflecting substantial involvement in the legal framework governing trusts and estates.

Colleen M. Donohue combines estate planning, administration, teaching, and professional service in a practice centered on families, fiduciaries, and business owners. Her work covers the creation of planning documents, charitable and lifetime gifting, asset protection, succession arrangements, probate, trusts, and estate-tax responsibilities. Through long-term practice and involvement with Missouri trust law, she helps clients plan ownership and transfers while guiding fiduciaries through the legal and administrative duties that follow a death.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, Michael E. Magliari, P.C.
• Member, The Missouri Bar
• Member, Missouri Bar Probate and Trust Committee
• Former Member, Missouri Uniform Trust Code Drafting Committee

Licensed State

• Missouri

Education

• Saint Louis University School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Indiana University
  B.A. (Double Major, Political Science & History, minor in Music

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