FirmSyracuse, NY
Since 1993 · Serves 6 counties
Syracuse firm founded in 1993 to focus exclusively on estate and long-term planning, serving Onondaga, Madison, Oneida, Cortland, Oswego and Cayuga counties. Walks executors and administrators through Onondaga County Surrogate's Court — petitioning for Letters Testamentary or Letters of Administration, requesting Preliminary Letters for urgent tasks, small-estate voluntary administration under $50,000, and marshaling assets into an estate account. Also handles living trust administration and funding, irrevocable trusts, and Medicaid and elder-law planning.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Lawand 2 more
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- 210 E Fayette StreetSyracuse, NY 13202
Solo PracticeSyracuse, NY
Since 2003 · Serves 1 county
Syracuse (Onondaga County) practice founded in 2003, with a second office in Baldwinsville. Handles probate and post-death administration for families settling a relative's affairs, alongside wills and trusts, powers of attorney and health care proxies, and Medicaid asset protection planning such as placing the family home into a protection trust. Also does business succession and real estate work — contract review, title searches and closings. Consultations are free.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateElder LawTax Planningand 4 more
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- 774 State Fair BoulevardSyracuse, NY 13209
FirmRochester, NY
Serves 1 county
Rochester firm whose trust and estate probate and administration group handles Surrogate's Court proceedings for Monroe County families. For an executor the work runs to setting a timeline, identifying the interested parties, ranking creditor priority, accounting to beneficiaries, and filing fiduciary and estate tax returns. Its litigation group takes on will objections and accounting disputes when a proceeding turns contested.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 8 more
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- 100 Meridian Centre Boulevard, Suite 300Rochester, NY 14618
FirmAlbany, NY
Since 1991 · Serves the whole state
New York elder law and estate planning firm working from twelve offices — Albany, five on Long Island, three in the Mid-Hudson Valley, New City and White Plains, and Staten Island. Guides executors and families through probate and estate administration, and handles trusts built to keep an estate out of Surrogate's Court, Medicaid asset protection, Medicaid applications and estate tax savings. Nine lawyers and seventeen paralegals and support staff, practicing since 1991; consultations are no-cost, virtual or in person, and the firm takes uncontested probate only.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Lawand 4 more
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- 125 Wolf Road, Suite 225Albany, NY 12205
Solo PracticeBrooklyn, NY
Serves 1 county
Sunset Park firm handling Kings County probate and administration from a single Brooklyn office. It petitions the Surrogate's Court to get an executor or administrator appointed, works through intestate distribution under EPTL 4-1.1, and takes on will contests where a beneficiary objects to the appointment or to the document itself. Also brings Article 81 guardianship proceedings for incapacitated adults.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationElder Lawand 5 more
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- 132 32nd Street, Suite 301Brooklyn, NY 11232
FirmSmithtown, NY
Serves 3 counties
Smithtown firm filing for Suffolk County families in the Suffolk County Surrogate's Court at Riverhead, with a second office covering Nassau's court in Mineola. Gets executors their letters testamentary so banks will release funds and real property can be sold, and handles administrations where there is no will as well as small estates.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateElder LawTax Planningand 5 more
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- 26 Landing AvenueSmithtown, NY 11787
Solo PracticeBrooklyn, NY
Since 1998 · Serves 7 counties
Sheepshead Bay (Brooklyn / Kings County) practice running since 1998, representing families and executors in the Brooklyn Surrogate's Court and across the five boroughs, with additional offices in Manhattan and East Quogue. Handles probate and estate administration, drafts wills and revocable and irrevocable trusts, and concentrates in Medicaid asset protection, Article 81 guardianship, and elder law. Inna Fershteyn is fluent in Russian and Ukrainian.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateElder LawTax Planningand 4 more
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- 1517 Voorhies Avenue, 4th FloorBrooklyn, NY 11235
Solo PracticeCanandaigua, NY
Since 2022 · Serves 2 counties
Canandaigua (Ontario County) solo practice working out of a former Town of Hopewell schoolhouse on Route 5 and 20. Guides Finger Lakes families through estate administration and probate start to finish, and handles wills, health care proxies, powers of attorney, irrevocable asset protection trusts and Medicaid applications. Free consultations in person, by phone or over Zoom.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateElder LawAsset ProtectionMedicaid Planning
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- 3678 State Route 5 and 20Canandaigua, NY 14424
Solo PracticeBinghamton, NY
Since 1985
Binghamton (Broome County) practice serving the Southern Tier since 1985 and appearing in New York's probate courts. Handles all aspects of estate and trust administration, including will-contest proceedings and family disputes, and prepares simple and complex wills and trusts. Uses tax and estate-planning techniques to reduce federal and New York estate transfer taxes.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 2 more
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- 84 Court Street, Suite 201Binghamton, NY 13901
FirmTroy, NY
Serves 2 counties
Troy (Rensselaer County) firm serving the Capital District, with more than 30 years of probate and estate administration work in the Troy and Albany areas. Handles an estate start to finish — probating the will, estate and income tax, liquidating assets, accountings and distribution to beneficiaries — plus wills, trusts, Medicaid planning and asset protection.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateElder LawAsset ProtectionMedicaid Planning
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- 317 Brick Church RoadTroy, NY 12180
Smithtown (Suffolk County) firm with staffed offices in Melville and Garden City, representing Nassau and Suffolk families in probate and estate administration — inventorying assets, validating the will and distributing the estate. Also handles estate and probate litigation, elder law, Medicaid benefits and special needs planning. Its team includes attorney-CPAs and social workers.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationElder Lawand 4 more
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- 50 NY-111, Suite 314Smithtown, NY 11787
FirmBrewster, NY
Serves 4 counties
Brewster firm representing Lower Hudson Valley families across Putnam, Dutchess, Westchester and Rockland counties. Carries executors and administrators through every stage of estate administration — the probate court filings, the deadlines and the disputes among beneficiaries — and litigates will disputes and accounting disputes, alongside Article 81 guardianship petitions and trust administration for trustees. Principal Andres D. Gil is a combat veteran and former assistant district attorney.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 5 more
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- 973 NY-22, Suite 3Brewster, NY 10509
FirmKew Gardens, NY
Since 2014 · Serves 1 county
Kew Gardens firm whose attorneys appear in the Queens Surrogate's Court on probate, administration and Surrogate's Court disputes — will contests brought on fraud, capacity or undue influence, beneficiary disputes and ambiguous will provisions. Also assists trustees with managing a trust, including tax returns and distributions, and brings partition actions when heirs inherit a co-owned property. Consultations are complimentary and conducted virtually.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 3 more
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- 80-02 Kew Gardens Road, Suite 600Kew Gardens, NY 11415
FirmSmithtown, NY
Serves 2 counties
Smithtown elder law firm helping seniors and their families across Suffolk and Nassau counties, including Hauppauge, Nesconset, Lake Grove and Centereach. Michael C. McCarthy concentrates in probate, estate administration and guardianship, and Michele D. Morley in trust administration and asset protection, alongside the firm's core work qualifying seniors and the disabled for Medicaid-paid care at home and in nursing homes.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Lawand 3 more
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- 162 Terry RoadSmithtown, NY 11787
Solo PracticeNew York, NY
Midtown Manhattan trusts-and-estates practice on Madison Avenue, serving families and fiduciaries throughout the tri-state area and in Florida. Handles probate and estate administration — estate inventory and appraisal, the petition to Surrogate's Court, letters testamentary, paying debts and claims against the estate, and phased distribution to heirs — plus revocable and irrevocable trusts and private fiduciary services. Michael J. Greenberg is admitted in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Florida, and also handles business succession and generation-skipping transfer-tax planning.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Lawand 2 more
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- 515 Madison Avenue, 31st FloorNew York, NY 10022
FirmClifton Park, NY
Since 1971 · Serves 3 counties
Clifton Park firm, with offices in Albany, Saratoga Springs and Glens Falls, handling Surrogate's Court work for Capital Region executors. The estate administration team files the probate petition, notices interested parties, marshals and values assets, pays debts and taxes and distributes what remains — including contested wills, out-of-state heirs, and ancillary probate for property held in other states.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationTax Planningand 6 more
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- 805 Route 146Clifton Park, NY 12065
FirmWilliamsville, NY
Serves 1 county
Williamsville firm handling Erie County estates through the Surrogate's Court, from probate of a will to administration when there is none. The work covers marshaling assets, final accounting and settlement, and small estate proceedings for estates under $50,000, plus contested matters where an heir was excluded or an executor's conduct is questioned. Elder law and Medicaid crisis planning run alongside.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationElder Lawand 5 more
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- 6325 Main StreetWilliamsville, NY 14221
Solo PracticeWoodbury, NY
Serves 2 counties
Woodbury solo handling Nassau County probate through the Surrogate's Court in Mineola. Haner files probate petitions, gets executors appointed under letters testamentary, and brings compulsory-accounting and will-contest proceedings when a fiduciary refuses to account. The site carries fourteen plain-language Surrogate's Court explainers covering citations, renunciations, temporary administration and venue.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationElder Lawand 3 more
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- 7600 Jericho Turnpike, Suite 301Woodbury, NY 11797
FirmUtica, NY
Since 2012 · Serves 2 counties
Utica firm with offices in Boonville and Lowville whose post-death side handles probate and trust administration, staffed by a dedicated probate paralegal alongside the attorneys. Its planning side covers wills, powers of attorney and health care proxies, revocable and asset-protection trusts, nursing-home and Medicaid planning, tax planning, and special-needs planning. Partner Robert K. Hilton III has helped over 600 families protect assets or qualify for Medicaid and has prevailed in over 50 Medicaid fair hearings.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Lawand 4 more
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- 2100 Genesee StreetUtica, NY 13502
Solo PracticeGlendale, NY
Serves 1 county
Glendale firm on Myrtle Avenue serving Queens families through the Queens County Surrogate's Court. Walks executors and administrators through supervised and unsupervised probate — managing assets, repaying debts, filing the returns and court papers, distributing to heirs — and separately administers trusts for successor trustees, covering beneficiary and creditor notification, asset valuation, payment of final expenses and taxes, and distribution.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Lawand 5 more
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- 71-27 Myrtle AvenueGlendale, NY 11385