Serves Montgomery and Howard counties from Rockville, with meeting locations in Columbia, Washington, D.C., Tysons Corner and Vienna. Handles estate and trust administration and probate and trust litigation, including will contests and breach of fiduciary duty. Practice is limited to estate law; a one-hour initial consultation is $500, applied to the engagement if retained.

Since 1996Serves 2 countiesVirtual consultationsEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+5

Serves Baltimore City and the surrounding counties from downtown Baltimore. Assists personal representatives in settling estates, from gathering assets and paying debts to distribution, tax returns and the estate accounting, and represents beneficiaries and excluded heirs in will contests and breach of fiduciary duty litigation. Serves estates of any asset level.

Since 1993Serves 6 countiesFree consultationEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationMedicaid PlanningWills Trusts

Serves Prince George's, Howard, Montgomery and Anne Arundel counties from Main Street in Laurel. Handles Maryland probate and estate administration and helps successor trustees administer trusts, whether or not the firm drafted the trust, and assists trustees and beneficiaries in the probate court process. Tom Downs has limited his practice to estate planning, probate, trust administration and guardianship since 1995.

Serves 4 countiesVirtual consultationsEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateTax PlanningGuardianship+3

Serves Baltimore City and Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Harford and Howard counties from an office in Canton. Guides executors and trustees through probate and estate and trust administration, including accountings, tax returns and distributions, and represents beneficiaries and fiduciaries in will and trust contests and breach of fiduciary duty disputes. The firm's roots date to 1939.

Since 1939Serves 5 countiesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation

Serves Montgomery, Prince George's, Frederick and Howard counties from Rockville. Dan Willard assists personal representatives, beneficiaries and others with probate administration and related probate litigation, including filing the will with the Register of Wills and obtaining letters. A husband-and-wife practice with over 25 years in Montgomery County that also handles construction and business litigation.

Serves 4 countiesFree consultationEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationAsset ProtectionWealth ManagementWills Trusts

Serves Carroll County and surrounding counties from Westminster, near the Carroll County courts. Guides personal representatives through opening the estate, the inventory and valuation, sale of assets, payment of taxes and debts, and distribution, and handles disputes over wills, undue influence and breach of fiduciary duty, as well as guardianship of the person and of the property. Gary W. Desper is a former Assistant Attorney General for Maryland; the first 30 minutes of a consultation are free for new clients.

Solo PracticeServes 6 countiesFree consultationEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationGuardianshipWills Trusts