Probate, Trust, and Estate Litigation

When a loved one passes, legal disputes may arise over estate matters – even when everyone involved has the best intentions. We represent fiduciaries, executors, agents, trustees, and beneficiaries to help mediate disagreements while advocating for our clients. Our work in interpreting wills and trusts has helped resolve disputes across a wide variety of probate, trust, and estate cases.

We advise professional trustees on interpretations of statutes and case laws, rendering opinion letters on a variety of estate, trust, and probate issues. We advise professional trustees on interpretations of statutes and case laws, rendering opinion letters on a variety of estate, trust, and probate issues.

We advise professional trustees on interpretations of statutes and case laws, rendering opinion letters on a variety of estate, trust, and probate issues.

We help our clients with dispute resolution when it is necessary. Whether navigating complex family and beneficiary issues or contesting wills and trusts, we work to resolve disputes efficiently and cost-effectively with the support of our litigation team. Litigation concerns include:

• Interpretation of wills and trusts
• Ownership disputes
• Family disputes
• Disputes among beneficiaries
• Business succession disputes
• Will contests
• Trust contests
• Trust and will administration issues
• Trustee opinion letters
• Surviving spouse rights
• Omitted spouse or omitted beneficiary
• Breach of fiduciary duty
• Removal or executors and trustees
• Contested accountings
• Heirship and kinship proceedings

When a person is a minor or lacks capacity to make decisions for themselves, a judge may appoint a guardian to manage the individual’s health and finances. We help our clients decide the right time to establish a legal guardianship, and guide them through the guardianship administration process We help clients with:

• Establishing guardianships for aging parents
• Instituting guardianships for adults with disabilities
• Ongoing guardianship administration
• Accountings
• Modifying or terminating a guardianship
• Contested guardianship matters