Estate Planning Attorneys in Virginia

81 estate planning firms in Virginia, by county and firm type.

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81 firms

FirmVirginia Beach, VA

Alperin Law

Serves 5 counties

Estate planning and elder law firm in Virginia Beach serving families across Hampton Roads, with offices in Norfolk, Newport News, Suffolk, and Chesapeake. Handles estate and trust administration, probate, asset protection, Medicaid and long-term-care planning, special-needs planning, and veterans benefits. Offers a free initial consultation.

PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Lawand 2 more

Office: 500 Viking Drive, Suite 202Virginia Beach, VA 23452
Phone: (757) 777-3336

Free consultation

Solo PracticeAccomac, VA

Anita C. Johnson, Attorney at Law, PLLC

Since 1993 · Serves 2 counties

General-practice firm in Accomac serving Accomack and Northampton counties on Virginia's Eastern Shore since 1993. Handles wills, trusts, powers of attorney, advance medical directives, and estate administration alongside real estate and family law. Attorney Anita C. Johnson is licensed in both Virginia and Maryland.

PracticesEstate PlanningMedical DirectivesPowers Of AttorneyWills Trusts

Office: 23405 Front StreetAccomac, VA 23301
Phone: (757) 787-8743

FirmRoanoke, VA

Anderson, Desimone, Green & Owens, PC

Serves 6 counties

Roanoke firm serving Southwest Virginia with a practice limited to estate planning and elder law. Handles estate and trust administration, probate, guardianship and conservatorship, asset protection, and Medicaid planning. Offers a free consultation.

PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Lawand 2 more

Office: 4923 Colonial AvenueRoanoke, VA 24018
Phone: (540) 776-6434

Free consultation

FirmLynchburg, VA

A.R. Pike Law Firm

Serves 4 counties

Veteran-owned firm in Lynchburg serving the greater Lynchburg area and reaching into Amherst, Bedford, and Campbell counties. Handles wills and trusts, trust administration, and probate, guiding families through the local circuit courts. Founder Aaron Pike is a former JAG officer.

PracticesEstate PlanningProbateElder LawPowers Of AttorneyWills Trusts

Office: 1603A Enterprise DriveLynchburg, VA 24502
Phone: (434) 288-1140

FirmRichmond, VA

Asurest

Richmond-area estate practice that meets clients at home or by video rather than requiring office visits. Prepares wills, trusts, advance medical directives, and powers of attorney on flat fees, and assists with probate across the region. Mobile and remote service is the firm's defining feature.

PracticesEstate PlanningMedical DirectivesPowers Of AttorneyWills Trusts

Office: 6610 Monument AvenueRichmond, VA 23226
Phone: (804) 525-9924

Virtual consultations

FirmRichmond, VA

Ayers & Stolte P.C.

Since 1990

Richmond firm serving the city and Henrico, Chesterfield, and Hanover counties for more than 35 years. Handles wills, living trusts, powers of attorney, advance directives, and estate administration through the Virginia probate courts. Offers a free initial case evaluation.

PracticesEstate PlanningProbateWills Trusts

Office: 710 N Hamilton Street, Suite 300Richmond, VA 23221
Phone: (804) 358-4731

Free consultation

FirmArlington, VA

Arlington Law Group

Serves 2 counties

Arlington firm on Clarendon Boulevard serving Arlington, Alexandria, and Fairfax across Virginia, Maryland, and the District. Its probate, estate, and trust administration practice guides personal representatives and trustees through qualification, asset marshalling, and distribution, alongside will and trust drafting.

PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateWills Trusts

Office: 1739 Clarendon BoulevardArlington, VA 22209
Phone: (703) 842-3025

FirmFredericksburg, VA

Barlow & Thomas, P.C.

Since 1992 · Serves 7 counties

Fredericksburg firm serving Stafford, Spotsylvania, and the surrounding counties since 1992. Drafts wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and advance medical directives and handles estate administration, alongside real estate and business matters. Offers a free initial telephone consultation.

PracticesEstate PlanningProbateWills Trusts

Office: 3516 Plank Road, Suite 104Fredericksburg, VA 22407
Phone: (540) 548-4120

Free consultation

Solo PracticePetersburg, VA

Bourlier Law

Serves 6 counties

Petersburg firm serving the Southside corridor — Prince George, Dinwiddie, Hopewell, Colonial Heights, and Sussex. Handles wills, estate planning, and probate alongside real estate and civil litigation. One of the few estate practices with an office directly in the Petersburg area.

PracticesEstate PlanningProbateMedical DirectivesPowers Of AttorneyWills Trusts

Office: 10539 S Crater RoadPetersburg, VA 23805
Phone: (804) 431-2584

FirmRichmond, VA

Bowen Ten Long & Bal, PC

Richmond firm on Westerre Parkway serving the metro area. Handles wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and advance directives, plus adult guardianship and contested estate and fiduciary litigation. Offers a free initial consultation.

PracticesEstate PlanningProbate LitigationTrust LitigationGuardianshipand 2 more

Office: 3957 Westerre Parkway, Suite 105Richmond, VA 23233
Phone: (804) 755-7599

Free consultation

Solo PracticeGalax, VA

Law Office of Alan K. Caudell

Since 1986 · Serves 3 counties

Solo firm serving Galax and the Twin Counties of Carroll and Grayson from the Galax courthouse area since 1986. Handles wills, revocable and living trusts, powers of attorney, advance directives, and estate matters for local families, alongside real estate and deed work. More than three decades in the regional courts.

PracticesEstate PlanningMedical DirectivesPowers Of AttorneyWills Trusts

Office: 104 W Washington StreetGalax, VA 24333
Phone: (276) 236-6106

FirmFredericksburg, VA

Carrell Blanton Ferris & Associates, PLC

Serves the whole state

Estate-planning and elder-law firm serving Fredericksburg from its Jackson Street office, part of a four-office Virginia footprint that includes Richmond, Williamsburg, and Virginia Beach. Works with families on trust-based plans, estate and trust administration, Medicaid and asset-protection planning, and guardianship and conservatorship.

PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationElder LawGuardianshipand 3 more

Office: 725 Jackson Street, Suite 209Fredericksburg, VA 22401
Phone: (540) 318-5998

FirmTysons, VA

Cochran Law Group

Since 2004 · Serves 3 counties

Tysons firm serving Northern Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. Builds revocable-trust-centered plans and advanced vehicles — special-needs, charitable, and life-insurance trusts — and handles trust and estate administration, financial powers of attorney, and health-care directives. Founder Deborah Cochran has more than three decades in estate and tax planning.

PracticesEstate PlanningProbateBusiness Succession PlanningCharitable Planning

Office: 8000 Towers Crescent Drive, Suite 160Tysons, VA 22182
Phone: (703) 847-4480

FirmCovington, VA

Collins & Hepler, PLC

Serves 7 counties

Two-office firm in Covington and Lexington serving Alleghany, Bath, and Rockbridge counties and the Clifton Forge, Buena Vista, and Warm Springs communities of western Virginia. Handles estate planning, estate administration and probate, guardianships, and elder-law and Medicaid asset-protection planning. Attorney Jeanne Hepler was named a Virginia Lawyers Weekly Go To Lawyer for elder law.

PracticesEstate PlanningElder LawGuardianshipMedicaid PlanningWills Trusts

Office: 275 W Main StreetCovington, VA 24426
Phone: (540) 962-6181

FirmRichmond, VA

CowanGates

Since 1977 · Serves 4 counties

Richmond firm serving the metro area and Williamsburg, representing executors, trustees, administrators, and personal representatives through Virginia probate. Handles estate and trust administration, will and trust contests and fiduciary litigation, guardianships and conservatorships, and estate and tax planning. In practice since 1977.

PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Lawand 2 more

Office: 1930 Huguenot RoadRichmond, VA 23235
Phone: (804) 320-9100

FirmRoanoke, VA

Copenhaver, Ellett & Derrico

Serves 8 counties

Roanoke firm on Franklin Road serving the Roanoke and New River Valleys and the surrounding counties. Guides personal representatives through probate and estate administration — asset gathering, creditor notification, and distribution to heirs — and handles will contests, beneficiary-status determinations, and accounting disputes.

PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationWills Trusts

Office: 30 Franklin Road SW, Suite 200Roanoke, VA 24011
Phone: (540) 343-9349

Solo PracticeHerndon, VA

The Carrithers Law Office

Serves 2 counties

Herndon solo practice serving the Loudoun and western Fairfax corridor — Reston, Sterling, Ashburn, and McLean. Limited entirely to estates: administering a probate estate, drafting and funding trusts, and representing parties in estate or trust litigation. Attorney Lavanya Carrithers gives the first thirty minutes of an initial consultation free.

PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbatePowers Of AttorneyWills Trusts

Office: 131 Elden Street, Suite 206Herndon, VA 20170
Phone: (571) 646-5600

Free consultation

Solo PracticeMidlothian, VA

Commonwealth Legal PLLC

Serves 4 counties

Midlothian practice serving Chesterfield County and the greater Richmond area, including Chester, Powhatan, Henrico, Bon Air, and Short Pump. Handles probate and estate administration, guardianship and conservatorship, and Medicaid planning and applications alongside estate planning. Attorney Scott Martin has practiced for more than fifteen years.

PracticesEstate PlanningProbateElder LawConservatorshipand 2 more

Office: 14321 Winter Breeze Drive, Suite 129Midlothian, VA 23113
Phone: (804) 470-9975

Solo PracticeRichmond, VA

Sigmund J. Collins, PLLC

Serves 4 counties

Downtown Richmond solo practice on East Broad Street handling estate settlement across the city and neighboring counties. Guides executors and administrators through their duties — transferring assets, balancing beneficiary and creditor claims, and closing the estate — with more than twenty years of Richmond-area estate work.

PracticesEstate PlanningProbateElder LawGuardianship

Office: 313 E. Broad StreetRichmond, VA 23219
Phone: (804) 420-2248

FirmLynchburg, VA

Davies & Davies

Serves 5 counties

Lynchburg firm focused exclusively on wills, trusts, and estates, serving Central Virginia and reaching clients from Richmond to Tidewater. Prepares estate-planning documents and handles estate administration for families settling estates. Offers complimentary first consultations.

PracticesEstate PlanningProbateWills Trusts

Office: 4935 Boonsboro Road, Suite ALynchburg, VA 24503
Phone: (434) 528-5500

Free consultation

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A basic revocable living trust in Virginia costs $3,770 to $5,655 when drafted by an attorney, ten to fifteen hours of work at $377 an hour. An online service prices a trust package in the low hundreds of dollars without attorney advice on your situation. The Virginia trust cost calculator carries the breakdown.

Even with a revocable trust in Virginia, you still need a will, most commonly a pour-over will that catches any asset never retitled into the trust. Virginia also allows a transfer-on-death deed for real estate, which moves property out of probate without a trust. Whether a trust adds enough over a will-only plan turns on the situation: real property, a blended family and out-of-state assets are the common reasons. The Virginia trust-or-will tool walks through the decision.

Estate planning attorneys in Virginia average $437 an hour for wills and estates work. A flat-fee package runs $1,311 to $2,622 for a simple individual will and $3,770 to $5,655 for a basic revocable trust. An online service prices the same documents in the tens to low hundreds of dollars; the Virginia will cost calculator sets the two side by side.

In Virginia, estates with personal property of $75,000 or less skip probate with the Small Estate Affidavit, 60 days after death. That route is a form rather than a court case, and most families handle it without an attorney. Above the line, formal probate generally benefits from counsel for the procedural work, even when nothing is contested. The Virginia probate calculator estimates the cost by estate value.

In Virginia, the situations where counsel is typically worth the cost are: a blended family with children from a prior relationship; a business, rental property or significant investment assets; a dependent with special needs, who needs a special-needs trust to keep benefits; substantial property in more than one state. Where none of these apply, an online or self-help document is often enough.

Estate Planning Attorneys in Virginia

Estate planning attorneys focused on trusts in Virginia charge $377 per hour for trust work. A basic revocable trust runs $3,770 to $5,655 when drafted by counsel. Trusts make the most sense in Virginia when you own real property, have a blended family, or want to avoid probate court entirely.

Virginia attorneys average $437 an hour for wills and estates work. A basic will from an attorney runs $1,311–$2,622; online services cost $30–$300.

Virginia hasn't adopted the Uniform Probate Code and doesn't offer simplified independent administration. The procedural floor is higher than most states, which is why retaining counsel for uncontested matters here is more practical than optional.

Estates under $75,000 in Virginia can use a simplified affidavit instead of formal probate. Most families in that range can handle it without retaining counsel.

SimplyTrust Editorial·Updated October 15, 2026

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Forms for Planning and Settling an Estate in Virginia

Free Virginia forms for planning an estate or settling one: a will, trust, powers of attorney, TOD deed, and the probate forms an executor files.

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Revocable Living Trust

Create a revocable living trust to avoid probate, protect privacy, and control asset distribution.

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Last Will and Testament

In Virginia, a will is signed before 2 witnesses, and a self-proving affidavit signed with it lets the court admit it without witness testimony.

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Healthcare Power of Attorney

Virginia requires 2 witnesses for a healthcare power of attorney; notarization is not required.

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Financial Power of Attorney

Virginia treats a power of attorney as durable by default, and it is signed with no witness or notary requirement.

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Pour-Over Will

In Virginia, a pour-over will is signed before 2 witnesses and moves anything left outside the trust into it through probate.

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Transfer on Death Deed

In Virginia, a transfer on death deed is signed before a notary, then recorded with the county before the owner's death.

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Tools for Planning and Settling an Estate in Virginia

Free calculators and checklists for planning or settling an estate in Virginia: will and trust costs, probate, executor pay, and inheritance taxes.

Trust or Will: Which Costs Less?

In Virginia, a will-based plan pays probate attorney fees of typically 2.5% to 3.9% of the estate; a funded revocable trust keeps those assets out of probate and off that fee.

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Do I Need a Revocable Trust?

Probate in Virginia takes 6 months to 9 months for a simple estate and charges attorney fees of typically 2.5% to 3.9% of the estate; assets held in a revocable trust skip both.

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What Does Estate Planning Actually Cost?

An attorney-prepared revocable trust in Virginia runs $3,770 to $5,655 and a simple will $1,311 to $2,622, against $0 to $549 up front plus a subscription with an online service.

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How Much Does Probate Cost?

Probate on a $500,000 estate in Virginia costs an estimated $29,411. Attorney fees run 2.5% to 3.9% of the estate under a reasonable-compensation standard.

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Are My Beneficiary Designations Protected?

Virginia automatically revokes an ex-spouse as beneficiary at divorce; employer plans under ERISA follow federal rules either way, so a 401(k) beneficiary changes only by a new designation.

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What Are the Estate Laws in My State?

Probate on a $500,000 estate in Virginia costs an estimated $29,411 and takes 6 months to 9 months for a simple estate, with attorney fees of typically 2.5% to 3.9% of the estate. Estates under $75,000 can use a small-estate procedure instead.

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