FirmBaton Rouge, LA
Serves 7 counties
Represents families in Baton Rouge, where East Baton Rouge Parish successions are filed in the 19th Judicial District Court, and in West Baton Rouge, Livingston, Jefferson, Orleans, Caddo and Ouachita parishes. Opens and administers successions, including small succession affidavits, and handles probate litigation. Attorneys on staff hold LLM degrees in tax law.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationTax Planningand 5 more
- Office
- 201 St. Charles StreetBaton Rouge, LA 70802
FirmCoushatta, LA
Since 1922 · Serves 8 counties
Practices from Coushatta in Red River Parish, where the firm was founded in 1922, and from Shreveport, with clients in Caddo, Natchitoches, DeSoto, Bienville, Bossier, Claiborne and Sabine parishes. Opens and completes successions with or without a will, including complex successions alongside landowners' property and mineral work, and handles interdictions and continuing tutorships.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateGuardianshipProperty LawWills Trusts
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- 1519 Ringgold AveCoushatta, LA 71019
Solo PracticeMetairie, LA
Serves 2 counties
Practices from Metairie in Jefferson Parish for clients throughout the New Orleans metro area. Attorney R. Scott Buhrer, in practice since 1986, administers testate and intestate successions, represents both challengers and administrators in contested successions, and handles interdictions. He holds an MBA from Tulane University, applied to estates with business interests.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationGuardianshipand 3 more
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- 3017 21st Street, Suite 110Metairie, LA 70002
FirmGretna, LA
Since 1980 · Serves 3 counties
Practices from Gretna near the Jefferson, Orleans and Plaquemines parish courthouses and has served the New Orleans area since 1980. Handles successions under administration, simple successions placing heirs into possession, small succession affidavits and double successions, and both contests and defenses of wills. Offers a free telephone consultation.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationGuardianshipand 2 more
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- 2550 Belle Chasse Highway, Suite 200Gretna, LA 70053
FirmMonroe, LA
Serves 1 county
Practices from Monroe in Ouachita Parish, where its probate and succession attorneys administer successions and form and manage trusts. Works with executors and personal representatives through estate administration, from paying debts to distributing assets and closing the estate, and also drafts wills, trusts and powers of attorney and establishes guardianships.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateGuardianshipFamily Law
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- 1811 Tower DriveMonroe, LA 71201
FirmMetairie, LA
Serves 6 counties
Practices from Metairie and handles successions in Orleans, St. Tammany, Jefferson, Lafourche, St. John and Terrebonne parishes. Represents heirs and succession representatives in successions with and without administration, probate of wills and small successions, and litigates will contests and representative removals. Also answers Medicaid estate recovery claims.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationElder Lawand 4 more
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- 2121 N Causeway Blvd., Suite 200Metairie, LA 70001
FirmMandeville, LA
Serves 1 county
Mandeville estate and elder law firm led by Christie Tournet, serving St. Tammany Parish and the Greater New Orleans area. Opens successions, including those that can proceed without administration, assists with funding and administering trusts, and handles non-contested interdictions and continuing tutorships. Christie Tournet is a Certified Dementia Practitioner.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Lawand 5 more
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- 4040 Desoto StreetMandeville, LA 70471
Solo PracticeGonzales, LA
Serves 1 county
Gonzales solo practice of Christopher J. Bridges, with more than 25 years of succession and probate work in Ascension Parish, including Gonzales and Prairieville. Handles testate and intestate successions through administration, payment of estate debts and the final accounting, and contested probate matters. Also drafts wills and handles tutorships and interdictions.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationGuardianshipWills Trusts
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- 714 N Burnside AveGonzales, LA 70737
Solo PracticeBossier City, LA
Since 1982 · Serves 2 counties
Bossier City practice of David L. White, whose firm has served North Louisiana since 1982, with succession clients in Bossier City and Shreveport. Handles the probate of wills and testate and intestate successions, and brings interdictions in which the court appoints a curator for a family member who can no longer manage his or her affairs. Offers a free phone consultation.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateElder LawGuardianshipWills Trusts
- Office
- 3985 Airline DriveBossier City, LA 71111
FirmMetairie, LA
Serves 2 counties
Metairie firm handling Louisiana successions and trust litigation for the New Orleans area, including ancillary successions for out-of-state clients with Louisiana property. Represents executors, heirs and legatees in insolvent successions, contested wills, usufructuary accounting and creditor claims, and trustees and beneficiaries in trust disputes. Led by board-certified Beau P. Sagona.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigationand 3 more
- Office
- 3027 Ridgelake DrMetairie, LA 70002
FirmHouma, LA
Since 1937 · Serves 1 county
Houma law corporation, established as Pettigrew and Duval in 1937, serving Terrebonne Parish and southeast Louisiana. Handles successions and estate administration, including the probate process and non-probate transfers of a decedent's assets, and drafts wills and trusts. Board-certified specialist Rachel South Boquet also handles special needs trusts and continuing tutorships.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateGuardianshipSpecial Needs Planning
- Office
- 101 Wilson AvenueHouma, LA 70364
FirmRuston, LA
Serves 4 counties
Ruston firm with offices in Monroe, Minden and Shreveport serving the Interstate 20 corridor in North Louisiana. Handles small-succession affidavits, independent and administered successions, and ancillary successions for Louisiana property of out-of-state decedents. Also prepares wills, trusts, powers of attorney and living will declarations, and handles guardianships.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateElder LawGuardianshipand 5 more
- Office
- 202 N Vienna StRuston, LA 71270
Solo PracticeBaton Rouge, LA
Serves the whole state
Baton Rouge firm serving clients throughout Louisiana, including out-of-state heirs with Louisiana property. Handles uncontested, contested, ancillary and corrective successions, trust administration, interdictions, succession litigation and appeals. Morgan Field has represented succession clients before the Louisiana Supreme Court; flat fees are available for many uncontested matters.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 7 more
- Office
- 6161 Perkins Rd., Suite 1BBaton Rouge, LA 70808
Solo PracticePrairieville, LA
Serves 2 counties
Prairieville practice serving Ascension Parish and the Greater Baton Rouge area, with succession and interdiction filings at the 23rd Judicial District Court in Gonzales. Handles testate and intestate Louisiana successions, interdictions and curatorships, wills, trusts, financial and medical mandates, and Medicaid planning. Initial consultations are free.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateElder LawTax Planningand 4 more
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- 16094 Hwy 73, Suite 202Prairieville, LA 70769
FirmBaton Rouge, LA
Since 2002 · Serves the whole state
Baton Rouge estate and elder law firm established in 2002, with New Orleans and Lake Charles offices, serving every Louisiana parish. Handles simple and administered successions, small-succession affidavits, trust administration and interdictions. Founder Linda S. Melancon is board certified in Estate Planning and Administration; consultations carry a $450 fee and mostly run by Zoom or phone.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Lawand 6 more
- Office
- 3956 Government StreetBaton Rouge, LA 70806
Solo PracticeBaton Rouge, LA
Serves 1 county
Baton Rouge practice of managing attorney Siobhan Leger, handling testate and intestate Louisiana successions. Work covers small succession affidavits, federally taxable estate administrations, ancillary probates, trust administration, contested succession litigation, and tutorship and interdiction proceedings. Consultations are free for most matters, excluding Medicaid consultations.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 9 more
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- 4983 Bluebonnet Blvd, Suite BBaton Rouge, LA 70809
Solo PracticeNew Orleans, LA
Since 1967 · Serves 4 counties
Mid-City New Orleans firm founded in 1967, now run by Vincent B. "Chip" LoCoco, serving Orleans, Jefferson, St. Tammany and St. Bernard parishes. It handles probate of the will and the succession, from the petition and executor appointment through inventory, payment of debts and distribution to heirs, as well as interdictions and special needs planning.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateElder LawTax Planningand 6 more
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- 4833 Conti Street, Suite 109New Orleans, LA 70119
FirmNew Orleans, LA
Since 1958 · Serves 1 county
New Orleans firm whose Estate Planning and Probate Group handles testate and intestate successions, from appraising assets and paying creditors to transferring title. Litigates will, trust and succession disputes, including undue influence and executor fraud, and handles interdictions. Four partners are board-certified estate planning and administration specialists.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigationand 5 more
- Office
- 400 Poydras Street, Suite 2550New Orleans, LA 70130
FirmLafayette, LA
Serves 1 county
Lafayette business and estate firm guiding succession administrators and executors from probate of a will through distribution. Handles valuation of succession assets and limiting tax exposure, represents both succession representatives and will challengers, and handles tutorships for a decedent's minor children. William P. Stubbs, Jr. is a board-certified tax law specialist.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationTax Planningand 3 more
- Office
- 201 Rue BeauregardLafayette, LA 70508
FirmAlexandria, LA
Serves the whole state
Alexandria firm with offices in Lafayette, Shreveport and Monroe that administers small and large successions across Louisiana. Handles opening the succession, the detailed descriptive list, creditor claims, tax returns and the judgment of possession, and contests or defends wills and fiduciary acts. J. Graves Theus, Jr. is board certified in tax law and in estate planning and administration.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigationand 7 more
- Office
- 1902 Jackson StreetAlexandria, LA 71301