Asset Protection Attorneys in New Castle County, Delaware

18 asset protection firms have an office in New Castle County, Delaware. Each listing carries the firm's practice areas, its New Castle County office and its phone.

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Practice Area

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Planning ahead

Estate Planning57 Tax Planning21 Special Needs Planning12 Asset Protection18 Medicaid Planning16

Settling an estate

Trust Administration29 Probate54 Probate Litigation20 Trust Litigation18

Capacity and care

Elder Law15 Guardianship18

Firm Type

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18 firms

Aleman & Associates

110 W. Main Street, Middletown, DE 19709

Serves all three Delaware counties from Seaford, with further offices in Camden, Milford, Rehoboth Beach, Bethany Beach and Middletown. Represents executors, administrators, trustees and beneficiaries in probate filings, creditor notices, deed transfers and distributions, and in trust administration. Attorneys work in English and Spanish, and Steve Nowak heads the estate planning department.

Serves the whole stateEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateTax PlanningSpecial Needs Planning+2

1-302-990-8801

Brockstedt Mandalas Federico LLC

2711 Centerville Road, Suite 401, Wilmington, DE 19808

Serves all three Delaware counties from offices in Wilmington, Dover, Lewes and Georgetown. The Estates & Trusts group advises executors and trustees on settling estates and administering trusts, and represents fiduciaries and beneficiaries in will contests, guardianship, accounting and fiduciary duty disputes. Its elder law practice handles Delaware Medicaid long-term care planning.

Serves the whole stateEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+6

1-302-327-1100

Bayard, P.A.

600 North King Street, Suite 400, Wilmington, DE 19899

Serves New Castle County from Courthouse Square on King Street in downtown Wilmington. The Wills, Trusts and Estates practice, led by senior counsel Steven R. Director, handles estate and trust administration, family disputes after a decedent's distribution decisions become known, and federal estate and gift tax planning. Director is a past Chair of the Estate Planning Council of Delaware.

Since 1958Serves 1 countyEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateTax PlanningAsset Protection

1-302-655-5000

Dimichele Law, LLC

724 Yorklyn Road, Suite 370, Hockessin, DE 19707

Serves Delaware and Pennsylvania from Hockessin. Frederick J. Dimichele guides executors, administrators and beneficiaries through probate, from filing the will and petitioning for letters through short-form administrations, creditor claims and distribution, and handles trust administration, guardianship proceedings and Medicaid and long-term care planning. Initial consultations are free.

Solo PracticeServes the whole stateFree consultationEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder LawGuardianship+3

1-302-626-2091

The Delaware Elder Law Center

3711 Kennett Pike, Suite 110, Wilmington, DE 19807

Serves New Castle County from an office on Kennett Pike in Wilmington. Settles estates for executors, handling the court paperwork, probate fees, claims and taxes, alongside long-term care Medicaid applications and estate planning. Founder W. Wade W. Scott holds a Graduate Certification in Estate Planning from Temple University Beasley School of Law.

Serves 1 countyEstate PlanningProbateElder LawAsset ProtectionMedicaid Planning

1-302-300-4390

Duane Morris LLP

1201 North Market Street, Suite 501, Wilmington, DE 19801

Serves New Castle County from the Wilmington office on North Market Street, established in 1985. Partner Jocelyn Margolin Borowsky handles estate and trust administration, Delaware trust modifications and decantings, and trust and estate litigation for fiduciaries and beneficiaries, including estate and gift tax audits. She is a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.

Serves 1 countyEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+2

1-302-657-4900

Elle Van Dahlgren Law, LLC

20 Montchanin Road, Suite 1000, Greenville, DE 19807

Serves New Castle County from Greenville, with Delaware and Pennsylvania licensure. Handles probate and estate administration, trust administration, and adult guardianship petitions, annual updates and accountings in the Delaware Court of Chancery. Works primarily on a flat-fee basis, quoted at the end of the first meeting.

Serves 1 countyEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateTax PlanningGuardianship+2

1-302-407-5009

Gordon, Fournaris & Mammarella, P.A.

1925 Lovering Avenue, Wilmington, DE 19806

Serves New Castle County from the Highlands neighborhood of Wilmington. Its Private Wealth group helps personal representatives and trustees administer estates and Delaware trusts, and represents fiduciaries in litigation in the Court of Chancery. Founded in 1994; ranked Band 1 in Private Wealth Law: Delaware in the 2026 Chambers High Net Worth Guide.

Since 1994Serves 1 countyEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+2

1-302-652-2900

Law Office of Kevin A. O'Brien

3801 Kennett Pike, Suite C-204, Greenville, DE 19807

Serves clients throughout Delaware from a Greenville office, with a father-son team of Kevin and Paul O'Brien. Handles probate and estate administration, trust administration, small estate affidavits and federal estate tax returns, and drafts special needs trusts and Delaware asset protection trusts. Planning documents are quoted as a flat fee after the initial consultation.

Serves the whole stateEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder LawTax Planning+3

1-302-888-2707

The Levinson Firm, LLC

4420 Limestone Road, Suite 210, Wilmington, DE 19808

Serves clients across Delaware from a Pike Creek office at Linden Hill Station, in person or by Zoom. Handles estate administration and probate through the Register of Wills, trust settlement, uncontested guardianships, and Delaware Medicaid applications; the firm does not take contested estate, trust or probate cases. Family-owned since 1981 and focused on elder law and estate planning.

Since 1981Serves the whole stateVirtual consultationsEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder LawGuardianship+3

1-302-656-3393

MacElree Harvey, Ltd.

5721 Kennett Pike, Wilmington, DE 19807

Serves New Castle County from its Centreville office on Kennett Pike; the firm's other offices are in West Chester and Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. The Centreville office lists estates and trusts law and trust and estate litigation, and its attorneys litigate trust and estate matters in the Delaware Court of Chancery. Founded in 1880.

Since 1880Serves 1 countyEstate PlanningProbate LitigationTrust LitigationSpecial Needs PlanningAsset Protection+2

1-302-654-4454

Maven Law, LLC

726 Yorklyn Road, Suite 300, Hockessin, DE 19707

Serves families in New Castle, Kent and Sussex counties from the Stone Mill building in Hockessin. Handles estate administration, trust administration for trustees, and guardianships of disabled adults, minor children and a minor's property, alongside Medicaid asset protection planning. Five attorneys also practice divorce, custody and family law.

Serves the whole stateEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder LawGuardianship+3

1-302-304-3300

Morris James LLP

3205 Avenue North Boulevard, Suite 100, Wilmington, DE 19803

Serves all three Delaware counties from offices in Wilmington, Newark, Dover, Georgetown and Rehoboth Beach. Handles the probate and administration of multi-jurisdictional estates and trust administration, and represents clients in the Court of Chancery in fiduciary litigation, contested will cases and elective share proceedings. Practicing since 1931.

Since 1931Serves the whole stateEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+2

1-302-888-6800

McCollom D'Emilio Smith Uebler LLC

2751 Centerville Road, Suite 401, Wilmington, DE 19808

Serves trusts and estates clients from Little Falls Centre II in Wilmington. Settles estates and prepares estate and inheritance tax returns and probate documents, advises trustees on trust modifications, reformations, mergers and decantings, and handles will and trust contests and beneficiary disputes in the Delaware Court of Chancery. Recognized in the Chambers High Net Worth guide.

Serves 1 countyEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+2

1-302-468-5960

Poole, Mensinger, Cutrona & Ellsworth-Aults

2710 Centerville Road, Suite 101, Wilmington, DE 19808

Serves New Castle, Kent and Sussex counties from a Centerville Road office in Wilmington. Guides personal representatives through probate, from recording the will with the Register of Wills and obtaining letters to closing the decedent's accounts, and handles small estates and adult guardianships. A female-owned firm that also practices family law and bankruptcy; Spanish is spoken.

Serves the whole stateEstate PlanningProbateElder LawGuardianshipSpecial Needs Planning+4

1-302-428-0100

Reger Rizzo & Darnall LLP

1521 Concord Pike, Suite 305, Wilmington, DE 19803

Serves Delaware from offices in Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach. The Wills, Trusts & Estates group administers estates from the initial probate proceedings through formal accounts, files fiduciary income tax returns, and represents fiduciaries and beneficiaries in estate and trust litigation, with elder-law and Medicaid planning. A Mid-Atlantic firm founded in 1992.

Since 1992Serves the whole stateEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+5

1-302-477-7100

Schwartz & Schwartz, Attorneys at Law, P.A.

1228 N. King Street, Wilmington, DE 19801

Serves Sussex, Kent and New Castle counties from Dover, with Delaware offices in Wilmington and Dagsboro. Its estate attorneys guide executors through administration with each county's Register of Wills, including small estate affidavits, and draft wills, trusts and Medicaid-planning Miller trusts within an elder-law practice. The firm also has offices in Maryland and Pennsylvania.

Serves the whole stateEstate PlanningProbateElder LawTax PlanningAsset ProtectionMedicaid Planning

1-302-281-0791

The Williams Law Firm, P.A.

1201 N. Orange Street, Suite 600, Wilmington, DE 19801

Serves New Castle County from N. Orange Street in Wilmington. Its attorneys handle estate administration from the Register of Wills petition through the inventory and final accounting, guide successor trustees through trust administration, and set up Delaware asset protection and dynasty trusts. David Williams founded the firm in 1974; it also has a business law practice.

Since 1974Serves 1 countyEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateTax PlanningAsset ProtectionBusiness Law

1-302-575-0873

Probate in New Castle County

Probate Court Record

New Castle County Register of Wills

New Castle County

Phone

1-302-395-7800

wills@nccde.org

Hours

Monday-Thursday 8:00 AM-noon and 1:00 PM-3:30 PM; Friday 8:00 AM-noon and 1:00 PM-3:00 PM

Office

800 North French Street, 2nd Floor, Wilmington, DE 19801

Website

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Asset Protection Firms Serving New Castle County

Doyle Law, LLC

20245 Bay Vista Road, Unit 204, Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971

Serves Sussex, Kent and New Castle counties from Rehoboth Beach. Guides families through probate, trust settlement and asset distribution after a death, and petitions for court-appointed guardianships of adults and minors. Founded in February 2024 by Rebecca N. Doyle, named a Delaware Today Top Lawyer five consecutive years; consultations are free.

Since 2024Serves the whole stateFree consultationEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateGuardianshipSpecial Needs PlanningAsset Protection

1-302-532-3139

Chesapeake Legal Counsel LLC

29 H Atlantic Avenue, Ocean View, DE 19970

Serves Sussex County from Ocean View, near Bethany Beach, with a second office in Annapolis, Maryland, and sees clients from throughout Delaware. Guides personal representatives through estate administration with the Register of Wills, from inventory and creditor claims to final accounting, alongside Medicaid, special needs trust and estate planning. Founded in 1993 by attorney John F. Robbert.

Solo PracticeSince 1993Serves the whole stateFree consultationVirtual consultationsEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateTax PlanningSpecial Needs Planning+2

1-302-537-4559

Law Offices of Bonnie M. Benson, P.A.

2116 S. Dupont Highway, Suite 2, Camden, DE 19934

Serves Kent and Sussex counties from offices in Camden and Lewes, and clients throughout Delaware. Guides executors through probate and estate administration and closing, handles will contests, and files guardianships for adults and minors alongside Medicaid and long-term care planning. Bonnie M. Benson has practiced since 1983, and the firm prices its services on a flat-rate basis.

Serves the whole stateEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationElder LawGuardianship+3

1-302-600-9036

May & Perza, P.A.

34 The Green, Dover, DE 19901

Serves Kent County and clients throughout Delaware from an office on The Green in Dover. Handles probate administration and estate litigation, guardianships and conservatorships, estate tax filing, and elder law planning for long-term care and Medicaid. Founded in 2010 by Mitchell W. May and Adam M. Perza, the firm also practices family, real estate and small business law.

Since 2010Serves the whole stateEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationElder LawTax Planning+6

1-302-736-1776

Procino-Wells & Woodland, LLC

1519 Savannah Road, Lewes, DE 19958

Serves families statewide in Delaware from offices in Lewes and Seaford, with virtual consultations available statewide. Handles estate and trust administration and advises trustees through the trust administration process, alongside Medicaid planning and supplemental needs trusts. Focuses exclusively on legal matters affecting older and disabled individuals.

Since 2005Serves the whole stateVirtual consultationsEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder LawSpecial Needs Planning+2

1-302-628-4140

Sergovic Carmean McCartney & Owens, P.A.

25 Chestnut Street, Georgetown, DE 19947

Serves clients throughout Delaware from Georgetown. Its attorneys and estate administrators open estates, handle court filings and distributions for personal representatives, guide trustees through trust administration, and petition the Court of Chancery for guardianships, alongside Medicaid planning and Miller trusts. Phone and video consultations are offered.

Serves the whole stateVirtual consultationsEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder LawTax Planning+3

1-302-855-1260

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