The riverfront,
due south.
Riverview is a small city of about 3,000 residents along the Mississippi riverfront immediately south of Bellefontaine Neighbors. The tenure profile is heavy on long-time homeowners — people who bought in the 1970s or 1980s, paid off the mortgage long ago, and are now in the phase of life where the estate plan matters more than anything else.
Ten minutes north,
up Lindbergh.
Riverview is about ten minutes south of our Florissant office — up the Lindbergh corridor and east toward the river. We handle most Riverview signings either at our office or, for older clients, at home.
Where Riverview
cases get decided.
Three courts decide Riverview matters — the city’s municipal bench, the county Circuit, and the Probate Division.
Riverview Municipal Court
City Hall · Riverview, MO 63137
Ordinance violations, traffic citations from Riverview Boulevard and the surrounding grid, and the occasional minor misdemeanor inside city limits.
St. Louis County Circuit Court
105 South Central Avenue · Clayton, MO 63105
Riverview felony charges, dissolution, contested civil matters, and probate. About twenty minutes south.
St. Louis County Probate Division
105 South Central Avenue · Clayton, MO 63105
Estate administration, conservatorships, guardianships. Same Clayton building.
Verify Before Relying Court addresses, hours, and procedural information above are believed accurate but may change. Verify current details with the court directly — addresses, dockets, filing windows, and clerk hours can change without notice. Statute citations and procedural references on this page were believed accurate at the time of writing; Missouri law changes regularly.
Eight practices,
one phone number.
Riverview work skews toward estate planning, probate, and the routine traffic and injury work the residential grid generates — the city’s tenure profile is heavy on long-time homeowners and surviving spouses.
- Estate planning: wills, trusts, powers of attorney, probate — see estate planning attorney Missouri.
- Personal injury: car wrecks, truck collisions, slip-and-fall, wrongful death — see Personal Injury Lawyer Missouri, car accidents, truck accidents, and wrongful death. No fee unless we recover.
- Traffic tickets: speeding, careless driving, CDL violations — see Missouri traffic ticket lawyer.
- Workers’ compensation: work injuries, denied claims, permanent disability — see Missouri workers’ comp lawyer.
- Criminal defense: felony, misdemeanor, drug offenses, assault, weapons, federal — see Missouri criminal defense.
- DWI & DUI defense: both the criminal case and the parallel administrative license proceeding — see Missouri DWI lawyer and the 15-day rule.
- Expungement: sealing eligible misdemeanor and felony records — see Missouri expungement attorney.
- License restoration: hardship petitions and full reinstatement — see license restoration in Missouri.
Estate work,
front and center.
Riverview is a small city of about 3,000 residents along the Mississippi riverfront immediately south of Bellefontaine Neighbors. The tenure profile is heavy on long-time homeowners — people who bought in the 1970s or 1980s, paid off the mortgage long ago, and are now in the phase of life where the estate plan matters more than anything else.
Most of the Riverview estate calls we get involve a single-home, multi-child situation where the house is the main asset and the goal is to keep the home out of probate court and into the hands of the named beneficiaries cleanly. The beneficiary deed under RSMo §461.025 is the workhorse tool. We pair it with a short will, durable powers of attorney for finances and healthcare, and an explicit conversation about who is going to be the executor and who is going to handle the day-to-day finances if the surviving parent becomes incapacitated.
We also see the routine traffic and injury work the city generates — Riverview Boulevard is a busy arterial — but the through-line for Riverview is the estate planning. For older clients who have a hard time driving up to the office, we are happy to do the signing at home.
Most Riverview matters are some version of the same question: how do we keep the house out of probate court and into the hands of the children. The beneficiary deed answers most of it.
Riverview legal FAQ —
straight answers.
The questions Riverview residents and businesses ask most often. General information; specific facts always change the analysis.
What court handles felony cases for Riverview residents?
Felony charges originating in Riverview are filed in the St. Louis County Circuit Court at 105 South Central Avenue, Clayton. Initial appearances, preliminary hearings, and bond review are heard there before the case is assigned to a trial division. We appear in St. Louis County regularly.
Where is Riverview’s municipal court located?
The Riverview Municipal Court at City Hall handles ordinance violations. Speeding citations, careless-and-imprudent tickets, accident citations, and minor ordinance matters are heard there rather than at the St. Louis County Circuit Court.
How far is your office from Riverview?
Our office at 580 N. U.S. Highway 67, Suite 4 in Florissant is about 10 minutes south of Florissant via Riverview Drive. Many Riverview clients meet us in person; others handle the entire matter by phone and video, with in-home signings available for estate planning.
Can my Riverview criminal case be expunged?
Many Missouri misdemeanors and a meaningful list of felonies are now expungeable under RSMo §610.140, with waiting periods that begin after sentence completion. We screen eligibility on the first call.
What is a suspended imposition of sentence in Missouri?
An SIS under RSMo §557.011 means the court accepts a guilty plea but does not enter a conviction if probation is completed. Done properly it preserves the record from showing a conviction for most purposes.
Nearby cities we also serve.
Bellefontaine Neighbors · Moline Acres · Spanish Lake · Jennings
See also: St. Louis County · All locations