FirmBismarck, ND
Serves the whole state
Bismarck firm serving Bismarck, Mandan, and the rest of North Dakota. Handles formal and informal probate, guardianship and conservatorship, will contests, and trust administration, within an elder law practice spanning Medicaid, nursing home planning, and veterans’ medical care. Two attorneys are members of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder LawMedicaid Planning
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- 1100 College DriveBismarck, ND 58501
Serves north-central and northeastern North Dakota from Devils Lake and Park River, for nearly 20 years. Guides personal representatives through compiling the inventory, notifying and paying creditors, and distributing assets. Attorney Tracy Laaveg has extensive experience establishing guardianships and conservatorships; the firm also does title opinions, title insurance, and farm leases.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateGuardianshipReal Estate Law
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- 304 4th Street NE, Suite 1Devils Lake, ND 58301
Solo PracticeLisbon, ND
Leadbetter Law Office
Solo practice in Lisbon serving Ransom County and southeastern North Dakota, one of four attorneys practicing in the city. Jeffrey Leadbetter was admitted in North Dakota in 1985 and handles probate, real estate, contracts, taxation, and municipal law in a rural general practice. The office has no website; contact is by phone or email.
PracticesEstate PlanningReal Estate Law
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- 7 Fourth Avenue WestLisbon, ND 58054
FirmWashburn, ND
Since 1915
Two-attorney office in Washburn serving McLean County and the neighboring communities of Riverdale, Underwood, and Wilton. Handles wills and probate, including choosing an appropriate executor, estate tax issues, guardianships, living trusts, and updating an existing will by codicil, in a rural general practice.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateBusiness LawReal Estate Law
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- 709 Main StreetWashburn, ND 58577
FirmWilliston, ND
MacMaster, Geltel & Siewert, Ltd.
Williston general practice serving Williams County and northwestern North Dakota, with two attorneys both admitted in North Dakota in 2011 and a retired founding partner. Handles estate planning and probate alongside real estate and family law. The firm has no website; contact is by phone or email.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbate
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- 323 Main StreetWilliston, ND 58801
FirmDickinson, ND
Since 1889 · Serves the whole state
The oldest law firm in western North Dakota and eastern Montana, practicing from Dickinson since 1889, with lawyers licensed in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana. Estate planning and probate is a named practice with three assigned attorneys. Mineral work includes clearing title to oil, gas, coal and wind interests and dormant mineral claims. Free consultations.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateBusiness LawEstate Tax Planning
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- 38 Second Avenue East, Suite ADickinson, ND 58601
Minot firm, formerly Boppre Law Firm, serving north-central North Dakota. Has assisted personal representatives from across the country in administering North Dakota estates, and represents heirs disputing an administration as well as creditors of the decedent. Opens delayed probates years after a death, and prepares wills complying with the American Indian Probate Reform Act.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Law
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- 2151 36th Ave SW, Suite BMinot, ND 58701
Minot firm serving northeast and northwest North Dakota. Itemizes its probate work: filing the will with the court, transferring assets to the estate, valuing it, paying taxes and debts, locating beneficiaries, and challenging invalid wills or defending valid ones. Also handles mineral succession and royalty disputes, mineral trusts, and life estate deeds.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateAgricultural Lawand 3 more
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- 320 16th Street NWMinot, ND 58703
Minot firm in practice since 1901, with four of its attorneys carrying the estate work. Advises family members, beneficiaries, and creditors through formal and informal probate and intestacy proceedings, will contests, and guardianships, and represents beneficiaries, administrators, executors, and trustees in estate litigation.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateTax Planning
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- 2400 E Burdick Expy, #100Minot, ND 58701
Serves northwestern North Dakota and northeastern Montana from Williston and Watford City, for more than 60 years. Represents families through probate whether the decedent died with or without a will, and keeps a dedicated probate paralegal on staff. Also handles oil and gas interests and land ownership in producing territory.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbate
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- 314 1st Avenue EastWilliston, ND 58802
Solo PracticeRugby, ND
Mack Law Offices, P.C.
Solo general practice in Rugby serving Pierce County, one of five attorneys currently practicing in the city. Galen Mack was admitted in North Dakota in 1986 and handles estate planning alongside real estate, agricultural matters, loan closing services, and senior issues. The office has no website; contact is by phone or email.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateAgricultural LawReal Estate Law
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- 120 2nd Street SERugby, ND 58368
Bismarck firm serving Burleigh and Morton counties, with three attorneys admitted in North Dakota. Assists families after a death through formal and informal probate proceedings, prosecutes and defends will contests, and represents beneficiaries and fiduciaries in probate litigation. Also handles guardianships and conservatorships, special needs trusts, and Medicaid planning.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 2 more
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- 319 North First StreetBismarck, ND 58501
The longest-standing firm in Williston, serving Williams County and the Bakken. Curative probate is a named specialty: resolving the land and mineral title problems that surface on inherited property, with work alongside the oil companies operating the wells folded into the probate as standard. Also serves heirs living far from North Dakota, and handles farm succession.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateBusiness Succession
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- 1500 14th Street W, Suite 200Williston, ND 58802
FirmBismarck, ND
Since 2014
Bismarck firm with a staffed branch office in Harvey, serving central and western North Dakota since 2014. Probate administration is a named practice, alongside estate litigation and will and trust disputes. Also handles guardianship and conservatorship, including emergency appointments, and the agricultural and energy-lease matters that bear on North Dakota estates.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateGuardianshipBusiness Succession
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- 515 1/2 E Broadway Ave, Suite 101Bismarck, ND 58501
Downtown Fargo firm serving North Dakota, Minnesota, and South Dakota. Estate and trust administration guides families through probate, alongside estate tax planning, guardianship and conservatorship, and estate litigation. The firm traces its roots more than 100 years and has operated in downtown Fargo for its entire existence.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbate
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- 201 5th St N, Suite 1800Fargo, ND 58102
Fargo firm with offices in Mayville and Grand Forks, serving the Red River Valley and clients throughout North Dakota and Minnesota. Handles ancillary probate for out-of-state families, which North Dakota requires to transfer a decedent’s mineral or oil interests and which relatives often discover only when royalty payments stop. Also probate litigation.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbate LitigationFamily Law
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- 5141 44th Street SFargo, ND 58104
General practice in Jamestown serving Stutsman County and south-central North Dakota, now carried by Steven T. Ottmar after both founding attorneys retired. Practice lines are elder law, estate planning and probate, wills and trusts, real estate, family law, and personal injury.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateElder LawReal Estate LawWills
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- 226 2nd Avenue SWJamestown, ND 58402
FirmGrand Forks, ND
Since 1898
Grand Forks firm serving the region since 1898, with lawyers licensed in North Dakota and Minnesota — it makes the difference between the two states’ probate rules its stated focus. Probate administration runs from appointing the personal representative through gathering asset and debt information, paying final expenses, and distributing. Farm succession and guardianship are named practices.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbate
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- 802 DeMers AvenueGrand Forks, ND 58201
Serves Cass, Traill, and Benson counties from five offices in West Fargo, Casselton, Hillsboro, Page, and Maddock. Addresses newly named personal representatives and successor trustees directly: cataloging and valuing assets, filing court documents, paying creditor claims and estate taxes, and distributing to heirs, with litigation when disputes arise.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Law
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- 444 Sheyenne Street, Suite 102West Fargo, ND 58078
Minot firm serving north-central North Dakota, with attorneys in Kenmare and Fargo. Estate work covers wills, health care directives, powers of attorney, probate, and trust creation, within a practice representing more than 40 banks statewide and handling creditors’ rights — useful context for an estate facing claims. Also mineral title and division orders.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbate
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- 17 1st Avenue SEMinot, ND 58702