Marvin Karl Hawkins Jr.

We used M. Karl Hawkins to make our wills, trust, and powers of attorney this summer. He listened to what we needed, was very helpful and answered all our questions. During our first meeting, he made us both feel as comfortable as possible talking about things that needed to be decided, but were not ...easy to discuss or decide. He was helpful in coming up with a great compromise for dividing our assets despite my spouse not having any living relatives and us not having children of our own. He also did not blink an eye when we wanted to make sure someone was able to take care of our pets if something happened to us. We met with him again briefly to draft a beneficiary deed after buying a different house and we still felt very comfortable with him. Thank you!

I have consulted with Karl Hawkins on several matters, primarily real estate law. His counsel has invariably been extemely helpful, and has allowed me to successfully navigate issues with contractors, financial institutions, and tenants. His legal knowledge is clearly based on extensive experience an...d expertise, where he has repeatedly warned me in advance of pitfalls that, when they came up, I succesfully dealt with. I have found Karl not only to be very professional, but also personable and able to translate complex legal issues into understandable implications, and then prssent options and next steps for me to consider. His communication has been better than any other attorney I've used: He always responds quicky to all questions, emails, and calls, and is flexible with scheduling follow ups. Regarding billing, he is always very fair, where for example when simple questions are answered through a quick call, I'm not aggresively billed as I have been with other attorneys. I highly recommend Karl.

Karl has done only a small amount of legal work for me, but my history with him as a businessman goes back many years. He is honest and reliable. He will tell you the straight story, and I trust him implicitly. The legal work he has done for me was done quickly and competently. If he can't handle you...r legal issue, he'll get you to someone who can.

Several years ago, Karl helped me with the Missouri portion of my sister's estate. It was a small estate but it was incredibly complicated because of a few odd financial decisions my sister had made. I was selling a house in MO which my sister, brother and I co-owned and my sister died without puttin...g an addendum on the deed that her children were her beneficiaries. She was dead, so she couldn't sign off on the sale and she hadn't named any beneficiaries.....Ack! You see this is already too complicated to explain and attempting to do so causes the slight tremble in my hands that occurred during this time to reappear. All i can say is that Karl handled this like a pro - he was very calm when speaking to a frantic, inarticulate executor (me) and was able to solve all the problems involved very cleverly and quickly. My mother recently died in Missouri and i immediately went to Karl for help with her estate. It was a very simple estate because my mother didn't make odd financial decisions and Karl did his usual excellent job with it. I would recommend him highly. I have no more family in Missouri that would dare to name me as their executor (thank god), so I won't see Karl again but I will always remember how much he helped me during a very difficult time in my life.