Estate Attorneys in Suffolk County, New York

16 estate law firms have an office in Suffolk County, New York, practicing estate planning, probate and elder law. Each listing carries the firm's practice areas, its Suffolk County office and its phone.

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Planning ahead

Estate Planning16 Tax Planning4 Special Needs Planning10 Asset Protection10 Medicaid Planning10

Settling an estate

Trust Administration6 Probate16 Probate Litigation6 Trust Litigation5

Capacity and care

Elder Law14 Guardianship10

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16 firms

Burner Prudenti Law, P.C.

12 Research Way, East Setauket, NY 11733

East Setauket (Suffolk County) firm with three more Long Island and Manhattan offices, practicing in trusts and estates, elder law and real estate. Walks executors and administrators through a Surrogate's Court file: the petition to appoint, waivers and consents from distributees under EPTL 4-1.1, Letters Testamentary or Letters of Administration, the estate account and asset inventory, creditor payment, estate taxes, releases and the final accounting. Also handles objections to a will, guardianship, and Medicaid and long-term-care planning.

Since 1995Serves 2 countiesEstate PlanningProbateElder LawGuardianshipSpecial Needs Planning+2

1-631-941-3434

The Law Offices of Michael Camporeale P.C.

445 Broadhollow Road, Suite 25, Melville, NY 11747

Staten Island (Richmond County) firm with eight offices across the New York City metro area, from Wall Street to Melville. Brings the probate proceeding in the Surrogate's Court of the decedent's own county - Manhattan, Westchester, Long Island, the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn or Staten Island - to get the named executor appointed and secure Letters Testamentary or Letters of Administration, then marshals the estate assets and distributes them to the beneficiaries. Also handles will contests and estate litigation, elder law, Medicaid and nursing-home planning, guardianships and special-needs planning; initial consultations are free.

Serves 8 countiesFree consultationVirtual consultationsEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationElder LawGuardianship+3

1-631-423-3334

Ettinger Law Firm

425 New York Avenue, Huntington, NY 11743

New York elder law and estate planning firm working from twelve offices — Albany, five on Long Island, three in the Mid-Hudson Valley, New City and White Plains, and Staten Island. Guides executors and families through probate and estate administration, and handles trusts built to keep an estate out of Surrogate's Court, Medicaid asset protection, Medicaid applications and estate tax savings. Nine lawyers and seventeen paralegals and support staff, practicing since 1991; consultations are no-cost, virtual or in person, and the firm takes uncontested probate only.

Since 1991Serves the whole stateFree consultationVirtual consultationsEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder LawTax Planning+3

1-631-824-8000

Fratello Law

26 Landing Avenue, Smithtown, NY 11787

Smithtown firm filing for Suffolk County families in the Suffolk County Surrogate's Court at Riverhead, with a second office covering Nassau's court in Mineola. Gets executors their letters testamentary so banks will release funds and real property can be sold, and handles administrations where there is no will as well as small estates.

Serves 3 countiesFree consultationVirtual consultationsEstate PlanningProbateElder LawTax PlanningGuardianship+4

1-631-406-5580

Law Office of Inna Fershteyn and Associates, P.C.

8 Delacey Avenue, East Quogue, NY 11942

Sheepshead Bay (Brooklyn / Kings County) practice running since 1998, representing families and executors in the Brooklyn Surrogate's Court and across the five boroughs, with additional offices in Manhattan and East Quogue. Handles probate and estate administration, drafts wills and revocable and irrevocable trusts, and concentrates in Medicaid asset protection, Article 81 guardianship, and elder law. Inna Fershteyn is fluent in Russian and Ukrainian.

Solo PracticeSince 1998Serves 7 countiesEstate PlanningProbateElder LawTax PlanningGuardianship+3

1-718-333-2395

Futterman Lanza, LLP

50 NY-111, Suite 314, Smithtown, NY 11787

Smithtown (Suffolk County) firm with staffed offices in Melville and Garden City, representing Nassau and Suffolk families in probate and estate administration — inventorying assets, validating the will and distributing the estate. Also handles estate and probate litigation, elder law, Medicaid benefits and special needs planning. Its team includes attorney-CPAs and social workers.

Free consultationVirtual consultationsEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationElder LawGuardianship+3

1-631-979-4300

Grabie & Grabie, LLP

162 Terry Road, Smithtown, NY 11787

Smithtown elder law firm helping seniors and their families across Suffolk and Nassau counties, including Hauppauge, Nesconset, Lake Grove and Centereach. Michael C. McCarthy concentrates in probate, estate administration and guardianship, and Michele D. Morley in trust administration and asset protection, alongside the firm's core work qualifying seniors and the disabled for Medicaid-paid care at home and in nursing homes.

Serves 2 countiesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder LawGuardianship+2

1-631-360-5600

Law Offices of Kobrick & Moccia

150 Motor Parkway, Suite 401, Hauppauge, NY 11788

Garden City practice with by-appointment offices in Hauppauge and Harrison, covering probate and trust administration for Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester families. Walks executors and trustees through appointment, managing assets, paying debts, and distributing property, including the case where assets were never funded into the trust and must go through probate separately. Also handles Medicaid and nursing-home planning, special-needs and blended-family planning, and IRA and retirement planning. Anthony Moccia began as a law clerk at the firm and took ownership in May of 2021.

Solo PracticeServes 3 countiesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder LawSpecial Needs PlanningAsset Protection

1-631-941-3400

David J. Lorber & Associates, PLLC

100 North Country Road, Setauket, NY 11733

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.

Solo PracticeSince 2019Serves 7 countiesFree consultationVirtual consultationsEstate PlanningProbateTrust LitigationElder LawGuardianshipSpecial Needs Planning

1-631-750-0900

Novick, Graffeo & Choi, P.C.

425 Broadhollow Road, Suite 210, Melville, NY 11747

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.

Serves 1 countyFree consultationEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationTrust LitigationGuardianship

1-631-547-0300

Pierro, Connor & Strauss, LLC

3075 Veterans Highway, Suite 260, Ronkonkoma, NY 11779

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.

Serves 13 countiesFree consultationVirtual consultationsEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateTrust LitigationElder Law+4

1-631-414-0094

Sheryll Law, P.C.

633 East Main Street, Suite 2, Riverhead, NY 11901

Riverhead firm filing for Suffolk County families in the Suffolk County Surrogate's Court, with a second office in Melville. Takes administrators from inventorying assets through paying debts to final distribution, guides trustees who have just inherited the job through managing and distributing trust property, and represents both sides in contested accountings and will contests.

Since 2017Serves 1 countyEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+5

1-631-506-8440

Smith, Finkelstein, Lundberg, Isler and Yakaboski, LLP

456 Griffing Avenue, Riverhead, NY 11901

Riverhead firm with roots in Suffolk County for over a hundred years, serving Suffolk and Nassau with seven attorneys. Represents executors, administrators, and beneficiaries in Surrogate's Court probate, intestate administration, estate accounting proceedings, and will contests, alongside real estate transactions.

Serves 2 countiesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationReal Estate

1-631-727-4100

Sugarman Law, P.C.

375 Commack Road, Suite 204, Deer Park, NY 11729

Deer Park (Suffolk County) firm founded in 2006, guiding Long Island executors and administrators through Surrogate's Court in both Suffolk and Nassau. Obtains Letters Testamentary and Letters of Administration and prepares wills, trusts, and powers of attorney, alongside a residential real-estate and business-law practice. Consultations are free.

Since 2006Serves 2 countiesFree consultationEstate PlanningProbateElder LawMedicaid Planning

1-631-964-4418

Tully Law Group, P.C.

532 Broadhollow Road, Suite 123, Melville, NY 11747

Melville (Suffolk County) elder law and estate planning firm with further offices in Northport and Riverhead, guiding Long Island families through Surrogate's Court. Handles probate and estate and trust administration, including informal and judicial accountings and heirship issues, plus wills and trusts and Medicaid and asset-protection planning. Its founding attorney is certified as an Elder Law Attorney by the National Elder Law Foundation; consultations are free.

Since 2016Serves 2 countiesFree consultationEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder LawAsset Protection

1-631-424-2800

Twomey, Latham, Shea, Kelley, Dubin & Quartararo, LLP

33 West Second Street, Riverhead, NY 11901

Riverhead-based East End firm litigating contested estate and trust matters in the Suffolk and Nassau Surrogate's Courts: probate contests, contested accountings, undue-influence and competency claims, kinship and right-of-election proceedings, and disputes over closely held corporations. Its Riverhead headquarters sits across the street from the Suffolk County Supreme Court and a few blocks from the Surrogate's Court and County Clerk. Also keeps offices in Southampton, East Hampton, Southold, and Hauppauge.

Since 1973Serves 2 countiesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationTrust LitigationElder Law

1-631-727-2180

Probate in Suffolk County

Probate Court Record

Suffolk County Surrogate's Court

Suffolk County · 10th Judicial District

Phone

1-631-852-1745

sufsur-chiefclerk@nycourts.gov

Hours

Monday-Friday 9:00 AM-5:00 PM

Office

320 Center Drive, Riverhead, NY 11901

Website

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E-filing

Required for attorneys

Self-represented filing

Allowed

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How to file probate in Suffolk County →

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Estate Law Firms Serving Suffolk County

Abrams Fensterman, LLP

3 Dakota Drive, Suite 300, Lake Success, NY 11042

Lake Success (Nassau County) firm guiding executors, administrators, trustees and beneficiaries through New York Surrogate's Court — probate, estate and trust administration, and contested estates and objections to a will or to fiduciary conduct. Also handles estate planning, retirement-distribution planning, Medicaid and elder law. Absorbed the Berwitz & DiTata estate practice.

Since 2000Serves 9 countiesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+4

1-516-328-2300

Adler Law Firm, PLLC

390 North Broadway, Suite 200, Jericho, NY 11753

Jericho (Nassau County) firm filing for Long Island families in the Nassau and Suffolk Surrogate's Courts. Handles probate, letters of administration and estate administration, wills and trusts, trustee and beneficiary representation, elder law and special-needs planning. Attorneys handle each case personally rather than passing it to staff.

Serves 2 countiesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder LawGuardianship+2

1-516-740-1184

Albert Maimone & Associates, P.C.

127-16 14th Avenue, College Point, NY 11356

College Point (Queens) firm with dedicated pages for will probate, estate administration, lost-will hearings, and spousal and beneficiary-rights disputes, taking executors from validating the will through distributing what is left, and petitioning the Surrogate's Court to admit a copy when the original will cannot be found. Also drafts wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and testamentary guardian appointments for minor children. Serves all five New York City boroughs plus Nassau and Suffolk, and offers a free consultation and case evaluation on probate matters.

Serves 7 countiesFree consultationEstate PlanningProbate

1-718-357-1216

C. Haner Law, PLLC

7600 Jericho Turnpike, Suite 301, Woodbury, NY 11797

Woodbury solo handling Nassau County probate through the Surrogate's Court in Mineola. Haner files probate petitions, gets executors appointed under letters testamentary, and brings compulsory-accounting and will-contest proceedings when a fiduciary refuses to account. The site carries fourteen plain-language Surrogate's Court explainers covering citations, renunciations, temporary administration and venue.

Solo PracticeServes 2 countiesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationElder LawGuardianship+2

1-516-259-5465

Eric M. Kutner, Certified Public Accountant & Attorney at Law

200 Old Country Road, Suite 364, Mineola, NY 11501

Mineola attorney-CPA handling Nassau County estate settlement in the Surrogate's Court. Kutner takes administrators through probate and through the non-probate transfers that sit outside it, including estates holding real property in more than one county, and serves as executor and trustee himself. He also oversees the trust, estate and tax departments of a Manhattan firm as of counsel.

Solo PracticeServes 7 countiesEstate PlanningProbateTax PlanningBusiness LawReal Estate

1-516-248-0650

Esther Schwartz Zelmanovitz, PLLC

1010 Northern Boulevard, Suite 302, Great Neck, NY 11021

Great Neck (Nassau County) firm of two attorneys serving Long Island, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Westchester. Handles probate where there is a will and estate administration where there is not, navigating the Surrogate's Court system for executors and administrators, alongside trust administration, wills, revocable and irrevocable trusts, elder law, Medicaid planning, and special-needs trusts. Founded in 2017 by attorneys with more than two decades in elder law and estate practice; free 15-minute phone consultation.

Since 2017Serves 6 countiesFree consultationVirtual consultationsEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder LawGuardianship+2

1-516-347-7356

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Estate Attorneys in Suffolk County, New York

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Estate Law Firms Serving Suffolk County

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Tools for Planning and Settling an Estate in New York

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