Solo PracticeBrooklyn, NY
Serves 1 county
Dyker Heights firm on 15th Avenue handling Kings County estate settlement in Brooklyn's Surrogate's Court. Takes executors and administrators through the full sequence — building the plan of action, making the Surrogate's Court filings, valuing the estate and paying taxes and other debts — whether the decedent left a will or died intestate, and contests or defends wills and trusts when beneficiaries disagree. Staff work in English, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Cantonese and Mandarin.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigationand 6 more
- Office
- 7811 15th AvenueBrooklyn, NY 11228
Solo PracticeOrangeburg, NY
Serves 2 counties
Orangeburg firm representing Rockland and Orange County executors and administrators through the Surrogate's Court, with a second office in Suffern. Handles heirship searches, the inventory of assets, liquidating a decedent's house, distributing to heirs and filing the estate accounting, and defends fiduciaries accused of breach of duty. Consultations are free and the office has Spanish-speaking staff.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationElder Lawand 7 more
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- 100 Dutch Hill Road, Suite 380Orangeburg, NY 10962
FirmBronx, NY
Since 1984 · Serves 2 counties
Bronx firm with two Bronx offices and one in White Plains, running probate and estate administration alongside a larger personal injury practice. For a family settling an estate it verifies the will, identifies and values the assets, pays the debts and distributes to the heirs, and it handles Medicaid asset protection and long-term-care trusts. The first estate planning consultation is free.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateElder LawAsset ProtectionMedicaid Planning
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- 3559 E Tremont AvenueBronx, NY 10465
FirmBrooklyn, NY
Serves 4 counties
Bay Ridge firm working the Kings County Surrogate's Court for Brooklyn executors and heirs. Handles probate of the will, notice to heirs, collection of assets, creditors' claims, estate and decedent tax returns, judicial and informal accountings, and distribution, plus administration and kinship hearings when there is no will. A three-attorney practice limited to estate planning, elder law, probate and estate litigation.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 3 more
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- 269 86th StreetBrooklyn, NY 11209
FirmRochester, NY
Since 1950 · Serves 1 county
Rochester firm in the Legacy Tower downtown, with appointment offices in Pittsford, Greece, Charlotte, Bergen, Canandaigua and Ontario. Its estate administration attorneys take executors and administrators from the Surrogate's Court petition through asset inventory, the seven-month window in which creditors may present claims, estate and fiduciary income tax returns, and the final accounting that closes the estate. The firm dates to 1950 and now has 21 attorneys and 60 support staff.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateElder LawMedicaid Planningand 3 more
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- 600 Bausch & Lomb PlaceRochester, NY 14604
Solo PracticePlainview, NY
Serves 2 counties
Long Island solo taking families through probate and estate administration for deaths on Long Island and in the New York City area: obtaining appointment as executor or administrator, filing the petition in the county Surrogate's Court, resolving creditor claims, and distributing assets. Handles intestate administrations under New York's intestacy rules and the nine-month deadline on the New York estate tax. Also drafts wills and revocable, irrevocable, and special-needs trusts, guides trustees, and represents executors and beneficiaries in contested-will matters.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 3 more
- Office
- 781 Old Country RoadPlainview, NY 11803
Solo PracticeQueens, NY
Since 2005 · Serves 5 counties
Queens practice weighted toward probate and estate administration, representing executors and administrators through appointment, creditor debts, and distribution. Also litigates disputes over asset distribution, will validity, and trust administration, and drafts wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and health-care proxies. Consultations are free.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationTrust LitigationGuardianship
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- 170-26 Cedarcroft RoadQueens, NY 11432
FirmVestal, NY
Since 1927 · Serves 4 counties
Vestal firm outside Binghamton with offices in Ithaca, Whitney Point, and Montrose, Pennsylvania. Its trusts and estates group supports executors, trustees, and beneficiaries through estate and trust administration and contested and uncontested probate, and its litigators handle estate controversies. Best Lawyers ranks it the region's only first-tier Trusts & Estates firm; founded in 1927.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 5 more
- Office
- 450 Plaza DriveVestal, NY 13850
FirmBuffalo, NY
Serves 1 county
Buffalo firm on Delaware Avenue with a second Erie County office in Williamsville, whose estates, wills, and trusts group handles estate administration, wills, trusts, guardianships, and estate, gift, and generation-skipping tax planning. Its estate litigators take contested matters, and the group works alongside the firm's elder law and business-succession practices.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateTrust LitigationElder LawTax Planning
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- 42 Delaware Avenue, Suite 120Buffalo, NY 14202
FirmStaten Island, NY
Serves 6 counties
Staten Island firm on South Avenue, with a by-appointment Manhattan office, handling estate administration where there is a will and administration where there is not, plus trust administration and trustee and fiduciary guidance. Also drafts wills, pour-over wills, and revocable, irrevocable, and asset-protection trusts, and files community and nursing-home Medicaid applications.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Lawand 3 more
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- 900 South Avenue, 3rd FloorStaten Island, NY 10314
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
- Office
- 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
- Office
- 100 North Country RoadSetauket, NY 11733
FirmPalmyra, NY
Serves 3 counties
Palmyra firm filing for Wayne County families in the Wayne County Surrogate's Court. Morell Law probates wills and handles the administration and settlement of estates, working with the family and beneficiaries to transfer assets and guiding them through the income, estate and gift tax issues that follow a death.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateTax PlanningBusiness LawReal Estate
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- 224 East Main StreetPalmyra, NY 14522
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
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- 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
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- 254 South Main Street, Suite 306New City, NY 10956
FirmMillbrook, NY
Serves 2 counties
Millbrook and Poughkeepsie offices appearing before the Dutchess County Surrogate's Court. Advises trustees and executors on their fiduciary duties and walks administrators through probate and intestate administration, then litigates the estates that go wrong — will and trust contests, accounting proceedings and missing-asset claims. A twenty-attorney bench spanning New York and Connecticut.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 5 more
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- 3208 Franklin AvenueMillbrook, NY 12545
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
FirmSyracuse, NY
Since 1921 · Serves 1 county
Syracuse firm founded in 1921 that carries an estate from the decedent's death through settlement, assisting executors and trustees with the paperwork, the family exemption and non-probate assets, and distribution. When an estate turns contested it litigates will contests on incompetence or undue influence, fiduciary removal, accounting proceedings and spousal rights claims, for Onondaga County families on either side.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 7 more
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- 217 South Salina StreetSyracuse, NY 13202
FirmNew York, NY
Serves 3 counties
Two-attorney Third Avenue firm taking surviving family through probate and estate administration in the New York County Surrogate's Court, with by-appointment rooms at the Queens and Brooklyn bar associations for clients on that side of the river. Its probate page works through the testamentary-capacity, undue-influence and revocation questions the court tests before admitting a will. Estate and gift tax work is handled in-house.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateTax PlanningBusiness LawReal Estate
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- 733 3rd Avenue, 16th FloorNew York, NY 10017
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
