Serves Cavalier and Pembina counties from Cavalier, with a second office in Walhalla open by appointment. Handles settling a loved one’s estate and navigating probate court, and treats guardianship as a specialty — contested and uncontested, adults and minors, including annual reports and modifying or terminating one. Four attorneys, 80-plus years combined.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateTax PlanningAgricultural LawReal Estate Law
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- 208 West Second Avenue SouthCavalier, ND 58220
Williston firm serving Williams County and the Bakken. Handles ancillary probate where the decedent lived elsewhere but owned North Dakota property, and opens probate so mineral and royalty rights pass from parents or grandparents once an oil company makes contact. Walks families through inventorying the estate, testing it against the $50,000 threshold, and noticing heirs.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbate
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- 107 Main StreetWilliston, ND 58801
Fargo firm serving the greater Fargo area, with estate planning and probate handled by attorney Travis R. Jung. Sets timing expectations up front: a North Dakota probate runs at least six months from the initial court date, realistically nine to twelve, and at least eighteen where a federal estate tax return is required. Initial consultations are paid.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateElder Law
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- 1375 21st Avenue NorthFargo, ND 58102
Grand Forks office of Thompson Law, which German Law merged into on July 1, 2026, keeping the same office, staff, and phone. Trust administration and probate covers notices to heirs and creditors, obtaining a tax ID and filing returns, and transferring names on titles and deeds — acting for the executor, for beneficiaries watching a fiduciary, or for a will contestant.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Lawand 2 more
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- 1726 S Washington St, #33AGrand Forks, ND 58201
Solo PracticeWahpeton, ND
Solo practice in Wahpeton serving Richland County and the Wahpeton-Breckenridge border communities, licensed in North Dakota and South Dakota. Takes on estate administration for newly appointed personal representatives, welcomes out-of-state executors needing local counsel, and represents excluded heirs in will contests. Free consultations.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateElder LawTax Planning
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- 328 Dakota AvenueWahpeton, ND 58075
Minot practice serving Ward County, licensed in North Dakota and Minnesota. The estate-side work is guardianship of adults and minors, conservatorships, special needs trusts, financial and health care powers of attorney, and partition actions; the firm does not list probate administration. Initial strategy sessions cost $175.
PracticesEstate PlanningFamily LawWills
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- 1344 S. Main StreetMinot, ND 58702
Serves Stark County and western North Dakota from north Dickinson, continuing a practice founded in the mid-1980s by Diane Melbye, the city’s first permanent female attorney. Handles probate and estate planning, and represents individuals seeking guardianship over a minor or an incapacitated adult. Also offers mediation and guardian ad litem services.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateGuardianship
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- 2048 3rd Avenue West, Suite ADickinson, ND 58601
Downtown Bismarck firm representing clients in the Bismarck-Mandan community and throughout North Dakota. Handles probate, wills, and estate planning for families settling a relative’s affairs, and petitions for guardianship and conservatorship where a vulnerable family member needs one appointed.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateGuardianshipBusiness Law
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- 400 East Broadway Avenue, Suite 303Bismarck, ND 58501
FirmWatford City, ND
Since 1980
Watford City firm in McKenzie County, at the center of the Bakken. Handles personal representative appointments, testate and intestate probates, heirships, and probate litigation including challenges to a representative’s actions — and the release of suspended oil and gas revenue, where operators withhold royalties pending a probate or title cure.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateOil Gas Law
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- 109 5th Street SWWatford City, ND 58854
Mandan firm serving the Bismarck-Mandan area and the rest of North Dakota, established in 1919. Represents personal representatives and executors through probate and estate administration, administers trusts, and resolves estate-related disputes, alongside wills, powers of attorney, and health care directives. The only North Dakota member of Meritas, a global alliance of independent law firms.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateBusiness Lawand 2 more
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- 103 Collins AvenueMandan, ND 58554
Serves North Dakota and Minnesota from Valley City, Fargo, and Wahpeton. Estate work covers wills, trusts, guardianships and conservatorships, powers of attorney, and probate, and the firm takes estate disputes from both sides — challenging a will or an executor’s conduct, or defending one. Business succession is the focus; the lead attorney is a trained CPA.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateBusiness LawReal Estate Law
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- 253 Central Avenue NEValley City, ND 58072
Bismarck practice serving Bismarck and its surrounding communities. Attorney Theresa Kellington draws on more than 33 years in estate planning and probate, and is direct with families weighing self-filing: probate can be done alone, but has many steps and is easy to misstep through when unfamiliar. Also handles wills naming guardians for minor children.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateWills
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- 619 Riverwood Dr, Suite 202Bismarck, ND 58504
Bismarck firm serving families across North Dakota. Represents a relative seeking appointment as personal representative, a representative administering an estate, or an heir needing guidance, through valuing assets, paying debts and taxes, and distributing under a will or North Dakota’s intestate laws. Separate estate litigation and claims-against-fiduciaries practices.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationWills
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- 1915 N. Kavaney Dr., #3Bismarck, ND 58501
Solo PracticeWahpeton, ND
Solo practice in Wahpeton serving Richland County and the Wahpeton-Breckenridge border area. Handles wills, estates, and probate alongside business formation and family law. Don Krassin was admitted in North Dakota in 1976; a toll-free line serves out-of-area clients.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateWills
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- 120 S. First StreetWahpeton, ND 58075
Solo PracticeJamestown, ND
Solo practice in Jamestown serving Stutsman County and south-central North Dakota. Handles wills, living wills, powers of attorney, trusts, and probate as one of four practice lines, alongside criminal defense, personal injury, and family law. Lawrence Kropp was admitted in North Dakota in 1984.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbate
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- 105 10th Street SEJamestown, ND 58401
Dickinson firm serving southwestern North Dakota, Montana, and South Dakota. Probate work covers appointing the personal representative, transferring real and personal property, filing court documents, liquidating assets, and paying taxes and debts. Mineral probates are a named service within its oil, gas and mineral practice, alongside farm leases.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbate
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- 117 First Street EastDickinson, ND 58601
Solo PracticeJamestown, ND
Larson Law Firm
Solo practice in Jamestown serving Stutsman County and south-central North Dakota. Joseph Larson II was admitted in North Dakota in 1975 and handles estate planning, wills, probate, powers of attorney, real estate, and adult guardianship. The firm has no website; contact is by phone or email.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateGuardianshipReal Estate LawWills
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- 2411 Highway 281 SJamestown, ND 58401
Minot practice serving Ward County and out-of-state residents who own North Dakota property or minerals. Handles probate and estate administration and trust administration, mineral trusts for generational transfer, oil and gas pipeline and surface damage agreements, and farm and ranch business succession. Also sets up guardianships and conservatorships for special-needs children reaching 18.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateGuardianshipand 2 more
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- 111 11th Ave SW, Suite 4Minot, ND 58702
Minot office of a firm serving North Dakota and seven neighboring states. Spells out the trustee’s job step by step: notifying beneficiaries, collecting and protecting trust assets, handling bills, final expenses and taxes, managing a home, farm or business interest, and distributing under the trust terms. Caps its settlement fees. Free consultations.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateMedicaid PlanningBusiness Succession
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- 7 Third Street SE, Suite 202Minot, ND 58701
Mandan firm serving Bismarck-Mandan and Morton and Burleigh counties. The estate practice opens by addressing families who have just lost someone and are facing an estate left without clear instructions, and carries them through North Dakota probate. Also handles wills, trusts, real estate, and oil and gas matters, with consultations available seven days a week.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateWills
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- 222 E. Main St., Suite AMandan, ND 58554