David S. Schleiffarth

David S. Schleiffarth is an estate planning lawyer at The Law Office of David S. Schleiffarth, LLC in Clayton, Missouri, the owner and managing attorney helps clients plan for the future. Schleiffarth helps individuals, families, and business owners plan for the future through estate and business planning. His practice includes wills, trusts, asset protection, powers of attorney, beneficiary deeds, special needs planning, business formation, business succession planning, and related services designed to organize assets and legal responsibilities around each client’s goals.

Schleiffarth earned a Juris Doctor from Saint Louis University School of Law and a Bachelor of Science in Sociology from Brigham Young University-Idaho. His education supports a planning practice that requires understanding family circumstances, ownership structures, long-term objectives, and the legal documents used to carry those plans forward. This background helps him explain estate planning choices in practical terms and structure plans around the needs of individuals, families, and closely held businesses.

Schleiffarth’s estate planning work includes advance health care directives, health care and financial powers of attorney, wills, revocable living trusts, generation-skipping trusts, retirement plan trusts, spendthrift trusts, testamentary trusts, beneficiary deeds, asset protection, and special needs planning. He also advises business owners on entity formation and succession planning. The practice uses a structured process that moves from identifying goals through drafting, review, revisions, and final execution of planning documents.

David S. Schleiffarth is active in the Estate Planning Council of St. Louis and the Missouri Bar Estate Planning Committee, with additional civic service in local government and business organizations. His practice emphasizes customized planning and straightforward explanations rather than one-size-fits-all documents. By bringing estate planning and business planning together, he helps clients coordinate personal wishes, family needs, asset ownership, incapacity planning, and succession concerns within a single organized legal framework.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, The Law Office of David S. Schleiffarth, LLC
• Member, The Missouri Bar
• Member, Missouri Bar-Estate Planning Committee
• Member, Estate Planning Council of St. Louis
• Member, Crestwood Board of Adjustment
• Member, Crestwood Economic Development Commission
• Member, Webster Groves-Shrewsbury-Rock Hill Chamber of Commerce

Licensed State

• Missouri

Education

• Saint Louis University School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Brigham Young University-Idaho
  Bachelor of Science (BS) in Sociology

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