Established in Sylva in 1951, Coward, Hicks & Siler fields five attorneys across offices in Sylva, Cashiers, and Franklin. The firm handles will probate and estate administration for families in the far western counties, including ancillary probate for people who die outside North Carolina, and brings guardianship proceedings. It also serves clients in Murphy, Waynesville, and Asheville.

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A Ballantyne solo practice in Charlotte serving Mecklenburg County, led by Janice L. Davies, an NC Board Certified Specialist in Estate Planning and Probate Law. She takes personal representatives and trustees through estate and trust administration, prepares estate and income tax returns, and resolves will and trust conflicts through settlement agreements and caveats.

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Serves Haywood, Jackson, Buncombe, Macon, and Madison counties from Waynesville. The firm guides executors and administrators through estate administration — opening the estate at the courthouse, paying creditors in the order the law requires, and filing the final accounting — and states it has done this work for over two decades. Sarah P. Wenzel handles the estate and probate work.

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Represents executors, administrators and heirs across North Carolina from an office on S. Miami Blvd in Durham/RTP. The practice opens and settles estates, supports trust administrators through their fiduciary duties, presses stalled personal representatives on behalf of beneficiaries, and litigates will and trust validity and fiduciary misconduct. In-office and virtual appointments are offered.

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