FirmSaratoga Springs, NY
Serves 1 county
Saratoga Springs firm handling estate administration for families filing in the Saratoga County Surrogate's Court. The attorneys represent executors, administrators and trustees through every stage of a Surrogate's Court proceeding, and the firm's own litigation practice takes on adversarial challenges to probate rather than referring them out.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 3 more
- Office
- 68 West AvenueSaratoga Springs, NY 12866
Solo PracticeNew York, NY
Since 2009 · Serves 5 counties
Midtown Manhattan practice on Lexington Avenue guiding executors and beneficiaries through New York probate and trust administration in the five borough Surrogate's Courts: locating and valuing assets, resolving creditor claims in the statutory priority order, and preparing the accounting the court requires before a final distribution. Also drafts wills, trusts, asset-protection plans, and Medicaid plans. Run by Gabriel Katzner, who passed the CPA exam before law school; the practice also keeps a California office in Encinitas.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Lawand 2 more
- Office
- 360 Lexington Avenue, 15th FloorNew York, NY 10017
Solo PracticeGarden City, NY
Serves 3 counties
Garden City practice with by-appointment offices in Hauppauge and Harrison, covering probate and trust administration for Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester families. Walks executors and trustees through appointment, managing assets, paying debts, and distributing property, including the case where assets were never funded into the trust and must go through probate separately. Also handles Medicaid and nursing-home planning, special-needs and blended-family planning, and IRA and retirement planning. Anthony Moccia began as a law clerk at the firm and took ownership in May of 2021.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Lawand 2 more
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- 1305 Franklin Avenue, Suite 170Garden City, NY 11530
FirmEast Syracuse, NY
Since 1964 · Serves 1 county
East Syracuse firm assisting clients in Onondaga County, the surrounding counties, and central New York with probate and estate administration: managing the decedent's assets, collecting debts, paying bills, and getting the necessary documents filed with the court. Also handles intestate estates, where state law rather than the decedent's promises controls who inherits. Its planning side is built on Medicaid, nursing-home asset protection, and supplemental needs trusts, on flat fees. Established in 1964 by Leonard C. Koldin, the former chief welfare attorney for Onondaga County.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateSpecial Needs PlanningAsset ProtectionMedicaid Planning
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- 6661 Kirkville RoadEast Syracuse, NY 13057
FirmBrooklyn, NY
Serves 1 county
Brooklyn firm on East 4th Street running separate estate planning and real estate divisions, in practice over 40 years. Guides executors and administrators through New York probate: the statutory inventory and list of claims, notice by publication and certified mail to creditors, notice to beneficiaries that the will has been admitted, and the formal accounting a beneficiary may demand. Also handles estate and trust administration, Medicaid applications, veterans benefits, special-needs planning, and asset protection.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Lawand 3 more
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- 1377 East 4th Street, Floor 3Brooklyn, NY 11230
Solo PracticeBrooklyn, NY
Serves 1 county
Dyker Heights firm on 15th Avenue handling Kings County estate settlement in Brooklyn's Surrogate's Court. Takes executors and administrators through the full sequence — building the plan of action, making the Surrogate's Court filings, valuing the estate and paying taxes and other debts — whether the decedent left a will or died intestate, and contests or defends wills and trusts when beneficiaries disagree. Staff work in English, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Cantonese and Mandarin.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigationand 6 more
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- 7811 15th AvenueBrooklyn, NY 11228
Solo PracticeOrangeburg, NY
Serves 2 counties
Orangeburg firm representing Rockland and Orange County executors and administrators through the Surrogate's Court, with a second office in Suffern. Handles heirship searches, the inventory of assets, liquidating a decedent's house, distributing to heirs and filing the estate accounting, and defends fiduciaries accused of breach of duty. Consultations are free and the office has Spanish-speaking staff.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationElder Lawand 7 more
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- 100 Dutch Hill Road, Suite 380Orangeburg, NY 10962
FirmBronx, NY
Since 1984 · Serves 2 counties
Bronx firm with two Bronx offices and one in White Plains, running probate and estate administration alongside a larger personal injury practice. For a family settling an estate it verifies the will, identifies and values the assets, pays the debts and distributes to the heirs, and it handles Medicaid asset protection and long-term-care trusts. The first estate planning consultation is free.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateElder LawAsset ProtectionMedicaid Planning
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- 3559 E Tremont AvenueBronx, NY 10465
Solo PracticePlainview, NY
Serves 2 counties
Long Island solo taking families through probate and estate administration for deaths on Long Island and in the New York City area: obtaining appointment as executor or administrator, filing the petition in the county Surrogate's Court, resolving creditor claims, and distributing assets. Handles intestate administrations under New York's intestacy rules and the nine-month deadline on the New York estate tax. Also drafts wills and revocable, irrevocable, and special-needs trusts, guides trustees, and represents executors and beneficiaries in contested-will matters.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 3 more
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- 781 Old Country RoadPlainview, NY 11803
FirmStaten Island, NY
Serves 6 counties
Staten Island firm on South Avenue, with a by-appointment Manhattan office, handling estate administration where there is a will and administration where there is not, plus trust administration and trustee and fiduciary guidance. Also drafts wills, pour-over wills, and revocable, irrevocable, and asset-protection trusts, and files community and nursing-home Medicaid applications.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Lawand 3 more
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- 900 South Avenue, 3rd FloorStaten Island, NY 10314
FirmNew York, NY
Serves 2 counties
Manhattan firm on Avenue of the Americas serving New York City and Westchester County from offices there and in Rye Brook. Takes executors from submitting the will to probate through distribution and final accounting, preparing the court documents and tax returns, and handles estate litigation and contested wills, guardianship, Medicaid planning, and special-needs trusts.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationElder Lawand 4 more
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- 1325 Avenue of the Americas, 15th FloorNew York, NY 10019
FirmPleasantville, NY
Since 1993 · Serves 2 counties
Pleasantville firm serving Westchester and Putnam families through probate and estate administration, with an appointment-only Mahopac office. Reviews the will, trust, deeds and beneficiary forms, files with the correct Surrogate's Court to have an executor or administrator appointed, identifies assets and notifies creditors, sells the decedent's home, and prepares the final accounting that closes the estate. Also files Article 81 guardianship petitions, including emergency applications.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Lawand 4 more
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- 390 Bedford RoadPleasantville, NY 10570
FirmPittsford, NY
Serves 1 county
Pittsford firm whose practice is confined to estate administration, estate planning and elder law, serving Monroe County families through the Surrogate's Court. It handles probate filings and letters testamentary, asset collection, creditor claims and distribution, including contested administration proceedings where relatives dispute who should control the estate. Most estate administrations are billed at a flat fee rather than hourly.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationElder Lawand 4 more
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- 1080 Pittsford Victor Road, Suite 100Pittsford, NY 14534
FirmGarden City, NY
Since 1991 · Serves 7 counties
Garden City firm on Old Country Road serving Nassau, Suffolk, and the New York City boroughs. Works alongside executors and trustees to locate, gather and liquidate assets, notify creditors and review claims within the seven-month Letters Testamentary window, file the decedent's final income and estate tax returns, prepare estate accountings and releases, and distribute to beneficiaries. Three attorneys, led by a Certified Elder Law Attorney, also handling Medicaid planning and applications, special-needs planning, and asset protection.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Lawand 3 more
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- 600 Old Country Road, Suite 444Garden City, NY 11530
Solo PracticeWappingers Falls, NY
Since 2004 · Serves 3 counties
Wappingers Falls (Dutchess County) solo with Westchester offices in Yorktown Heights and Mt Kisco, appearing in the Dutchess County Surrogate's Court. Represents executors and court-appointed administrators from the petition through inventory, creditor notice, and final accounting, keeps out-of-state executors from having to travel, and defends the estate when heirs dispute the will. Also handles Article 81 guardianships, trust administration, Medicaid and special-needs trusts, asset protection, and nursing-home planning, and makes house calls.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 5 more
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- 2644 East Main StreetWappingers Falls, NY 12590
FirmNew York, NY
Since 2017 · Serves the whole state
Financial District firm on Maiden Lane guiding executors and beneficiaries through New York Surrogate's Court probate, including SCPA 1404 examinations and will contests, and filing final 1040 and fiduciary 1041 returns. Also drafts wills, trusts, and powers of attorney, and builds Medicaid asset-protection trusts around the five-year look-back. Serving New York families since 2017.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationElder Lawand 3 more
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- 15 Maiden Lane, Suite 905New York, NY 10038
FirmElmira, NY
Serves 3 counties
Elmira firm on West Church Street representing executors, administrators, heirs, and beneficiaries in Surrogate's Court probate across Chemung, Steuben, and Schuyler counties, from the petition and appointment through inventory and appraisal of estate assets. Its planning side covers elder law, Medicaid, asset protection, and special-needs planning.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateElder LawTax Planningand 4 more
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- 221 W. Church StreetElmira, NY 14901
FirmBuffalo, NY
Serves 2 counties
Buffalo elder law firm on Cayuga Road with satellite offices in East Aurora and Lockport. Its estate side opens testate and intestate proceedings, locates heirs and notifies them of their right to object to the executor's appointment, works with the executor to inventory assets and fix date-of-death values, then prepares the accounting and the papers that release the executor and close the estate. Twelve attorneys, six of them partners, concentrate in elder law and estate work rather than general practice.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateElder LawGuardianshipand 2 more
- Office
- 455 Cayuga Road, Suite 600Buffalo, NY 14225
FirmRochester, NY
Serves 1 county
Greater Rochester elder-law firm with offices in Greece and Webster (Monroe County), focused on estate planning, asset protection, probate, and trust administration. Guides families through estate and trust settlement, from securing belongings and notifying heirs to transferring assets to the intended beneficiaries.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Lawand 2 more
- Office
- 1100 Long Pond Road, #214Rochester, NY 14626
FirmKingston, NY
Since 1870 · Serves 1 county
Kingston firm one block from the Ulster County Surrogate's Court, handling probate, intestate administration, small estates under $30,000, and the cases where no administration is needed at all. Guides the administrator through notifying creditors and heirs, cataloging and valuing property, prudently managing assets until distribution, paying taxes and debts, and closing the estate.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateElder LawAsset Protectionand 3 more
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- 255 Fair StreetKingston, NY 12401