About

Practice Areas

  • Probate Avoidance
  • Asset Protection
  • Elder Law
  • Business Planning
  • Trusts
  • Wills
  • Trustee Representation
  • Retirement Planning
  • Beneficiary Deeds
  • Representing Executor and Personal Representative
  • Living Wills & Healthcare Powers of Attorney
  • Medicaid & MoHealthNet Planning
  • Guardianships for Disabled Adults
  • Conservatorships
  • Durable Powers of Attorney
  • LLC & Business Start-Ups
  • Business Purchases and Operation

About The Firm

The attorneys at Barchet Law practice primarily in the areas of estates, trusts, elder law, and business law. With a focus on client service and education, we aid and advise our clients in the creation of estate plans that are tailored to their unique situations. In so doing we prepare wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and other documents that form a comprehensive estate plan. We also assist with the administration of both probate estates and trusts, and we counsel elderly and disabled persons, as well as their children or caretakers, regarding the unique legal challenges they are facing and potential solutions to those problems.

Beyond estates, trusts, and elder law, we can also help clients with business matters, including creating sole proprietorships, LLC’s, and corporations, and the sale and purchase of businesses.

Meet Our Attorneys

Cynthia Barchet

  • Admitted: Missouri 1993
  • Law School: University of Missouri– Columbia, J.D., 1993, Order of the Coif, Law Review
  • Undergraduate: University of Missouri– Columbia, B.S.B.A. – Economics, 1989, with honors
  • Biography / Memberships:
    • Boone County Bar Association
    • Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
    • The Missouri Bar
    • Former Law Clerk to the Honorable Stanley Grimm, Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District
    • Mid-Missouri Senior Network
    • Boone County 4-H
    • Mid-Missouri Estate Planning Council
  • Speaker: Frequent speaker for non-profits, including parent organizations, advocates for the disabled, caregiver and Alzheimer support groups and other community organizations.
  • Born: St. Louis, Missouri

Laura Weiss

  • Admitted: Missouri 2021
  • Law School: University of Missouri – Columbia, J.D., 2020
  • Undergraduate: Columbia College – Columbia, B.A. – English Literature and Psychology
  • Biography / Memberships:
    • The Missouri Bar Association
    • Boone County Bar Association
    • Mid-Missouri Senior Network
  • Born: Camdenton, Missouri

Ryan Hasenbeck

  • Admitted: Missouri 2023
  • Law School: University of Missouri – Columbia, J.D. 2023. Business, Entrepreneurship, and Tax Law Review.
  • Undergraduate: Truman State University, B.S. – Justice Systems, 2019.
  • Biography/Memberships:
    • The Missouri Bar
    • Boone County Bar Association
  • Born: St. Louis, Missouri