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
Solo PracticeSetauket, NY
Since 2019 · Serves 7 counties
Setauket (Suffolk County) practice handling probate, estate administration, and trust and estate litigation in the Surrogate's Court, serving Long Island and the New York metro area. Drafts wills, trusts, and special-needs and business-succession plans, and brings adult guardianship proceedings, with phone, virtual, and office consultations offered at no charge.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateTrust LitigationElder Lawand 2 more
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- 100 North Country RoadSetauket, NY 11733
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
- Office
- 390 Bedford RoadPleasantville, NY 10570
FirmNew City, NY
Serves 3 counties
New City firm whose office sits a quarter mile from the Rockland County Courthouse, serving executors and administrators across Rockland, Orange and Westchester. Files the Surrogate's Court probate papers, works through inventory, valuation, collection and sale of assets, pays estate debts, manages a decedent's trust and prepares the federal and New York estate tax returns. Both partners litigate contested accountings and undue-influence claims.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 6 more
- Office
- 254 South Main Street, Suite 306New City, NY 10956
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
FirmMiddletown, NY
Since 1885 · Serves 1 county
Middletown firm in Orange County handling estate planning and administration alongside its litigation and real estate work. Prepares trusts, powers of attorney, living wills and health care proxies, and takes on contested matters including will contests, estate litigation and guardianship proceedings. One of the oldest firms in the Hudson Valley, tracing its roots to 1885.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationElder Lawand 3 more
- Office
- 34 Grove StreetMiddletown, NY 10940
FirmSyracuse, NY
Since 2015 · Serves 2 counties
Syracuse firm on East Washington Street with a by-appointment Watertown office, serving Central and Northern New York. Walks heirs and fiduciaries through Surrogate's Court from the petition to appoint the executor through the inventory, debts, distributions, tax returns, and final accounting; administers trusts for successor trustees; and litigates objections to probate, trust-validity contests, trustee removals, and accounting proceedings. Its planning side covers elder law, Medicaid trusts and applications, dementia planning, guardianship and special-needs planning, and elder care coordination.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 5 more
- Office
- 506 East Washington Street, Suite ASyracuse, NY 13202
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
FirmGarden City, NY
Since 2000 · Serves 1 county
Garden City firm of six attorneys formed in 2000 to continue Edward A. McCoyd, P.C., working across trusts and estates for Nassau County and the New York City metro area. For executors and administrators it handles the proceeding to probate the will, the inventory, settling debts, estate and fiduciary income tax returns, post-mortem tax planning, and the preparation and settlement of the executor's account, including estate administration for non-residents of New York. Also litigates will-validity disputes on both sides, contested accountings, turnover proceedings, and contested guardianships.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 3 more
- Office
- 1100 Franklin Avenue, The PenthouseGarden City, NY 11530
FirmRochester, NY
Since 1979 · Serves 1 county
Rochester firm at Meridian Centre, with appointment-only offices in Penfield, Fairport, and Greece. Its estate administration lawyers guide executors, administrators, and trustees through probate, establishing estate and trust accounts, liquidating assets, and preparing fiduciary accountings, estate tax returns, and fiduciary income tax returns. Also handles will contests and trust disputes, Medicaid planning, and guardianship proceedings.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 5 more
- Office
- 300 Meridian Centre Boulevard, Suite 110Rochester, NY 14618
Solo PracticeNew York, NY
Since 2015 · Serves 8 counties
Lower Manhattan practice on Broad Street representing beneficiaries, administrators, executors, heirs, and trustees in Surrogate's Court probate proceedings and will contests across the five boroughs, Long Island, and Westchester. Handles estate administration, ancillary probate for foreign and out-of-state decedents, SCPA 1404 examinations, contested accountings, guardianship, and federal and New York estate tax returns.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 5 more
- Office
- 85 Broad Street, 18th FloorNew York, NY 10004
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
FirmMelville, NY
Serves 1 county
Melville firm litigating contested estates in the Suffolk County Surrogate's Court, with a second office in Huntington. Represents beneficiaries forcing an executor to account, contests wills procured by undue influence, pursues fraudulent transfers of estate assets, and petitions for Article 81 guardianship when an incapacitated relative's assets are being drained. Contingency fee arrangements are available on some matters.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationTrust LitigationGuardianship
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- 425 Broadhollow Road, Suite 210Melville, NY 11747
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
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- 455 Cayuga Road, Suite 600Buffalo, NY 14225
FirmLatham, NY
Serves 13 counties
Capital Region trusts and estates practice in Latham, with offices in New York City, Garden City, Hudson and Lake Placid and more than 280 years of combined attorney experience. Handles estate and trust administration, probate, estate and trust litigation, guardianship under Article 81 and 17-A, Medicaid and special needs planning, and tax planning.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateTrust Litigationand 5 more
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- 43 British American BoulevardLatham, NY 12110
FirmTroy, NY
Since 1813 · Serves 4 counties
Troy firm at 22 First Street serving Albany, Troy, Schenectady and Saratoga in the Capital District, tracing its roots to 1813. Handles estate and trust administration: probating wills, intestate administration, beneficiary and fiduciary representation, contested accountings, will contests and right-of-election claims, plus Medicaid planning and guardianship petitions.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 4 more
- Office
- 22 First StreetTroy, NY 12180
FirmElmsford, NY
Since 2010 · Serves 1 county
Elmsford firm, formerly in White Plains, guiding Westchester executors through probate in the Surrogate's Court of the county where the decedent lived. Walks the executor through the probate petition and death certificate, publication and citation notice to distributees, inventorying and appraising property, paying creditors, distributing the residue, and filing the estate's income, gift and estate tax returns. Both principals are trained mediators who try to settle beneficiary disputes before litigating them.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 5 more
- Office
- 570 Taxter Road, Suite 600Elmsford, NY 10523
FirmBuffalo, NY
Serves 2 counties
Buffalo firm guiding Erie County executors and administrators through the Surrogate's Court of the county where the decedent lived. The work covers filing the petition, getting Letters Testamentary or Letters of Administration issued, notifying heirs and beneficiaries, and settling debts and taxes before distribution. A second office in Jamestown covers Chautauqua County.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateElder LawGuardianshipand 3 more
- Office
- 535 Washington Street, 12th FloorBuffalo, NY 14203
FirmNew York, NY
Serves 6 counties
Five-attorney estate practice at 40 Wall Street, appearing regularly in the New York County Surrogate's Court. Gets fiduciaries appointed — letters testamentary, letters of administration c.t.a. and d.b.n. — then handles what goes wrong afterwards: contested accountings, discovery and turnover proceedings to recover estate assets, fiduciary removal, and kinship hearings proving a right to inherit. Also runs contested Article 81 guardianships.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 5 more
- Office
- 40 Wall Street, Suite 2508New York, NY 10005