FirmBaton Rouge, LA
Serves 7 counties
Represents families in Baton Rouge, where East Baton Rouge Parish successions are filed in the 19th Judicial District Court, and in West Baton Rouge, Livingston, Jefferson, Orleans, Caddo and Ouachita parishes. Opens and administers successions, including small succession affidavits, and handles probate litigation. Attorneys on staff hold LLM degrees in tax law.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationTax Planningand 5 more
- Office
- 201 St. Charles StreetBaton Rouge, LA 70802
Solo PracticeMetairie, LA
Serves 2 counties
Practices from Metairie in Jefferson Parish for clients throughout the New Orleans metro area. Attorney R. Scott Buhrer, in practice since 1986, administers testate and intestate successions, represents both challengers and administrators in contested successions, and handles interdictions. He holds an MBA from Tulane University, applied to estates with business interests.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationGuardianshipand 3 more
- Office
- 3017 21st Street, Suite 110Metairie, LA 70002
FirmGretna, LA
Since 1980 · Serves 3 counties
Practices from Gretna near the Jefferson, Orleans and Plaquemines parish courthouses and has served the New Orleans area since 1980. Handles successions under administration, simple successions placing heirs into possession, small succession affidavits and double successions, and both contests and defenses of wills. Offers a free telephone consultation.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationGuardianshipand 2 more
- Office
- 2550 Belle Chasse Highway, Suite 200Gretna, LA 70053
FirmMetairie, LA
Serves 6 counties
Practices from Metairie and handles successions in Orleans, St. Tammany, Jefferson, Lafourche, St. John and Terrebonne parishes. Represents heirs and succession representatives in successions with and without administration, probate of wills and small successions, and litigates will contests and representative removals. Also answers Medicaid estate recovery claims.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationElder Lawand 4 more
- Office
- 2121 N Causeway Blvd., Suite 200Metairie, LA 70001
Solo PracticeAlexandria, LA
Serves 1 county
Practices from Alexandria in Rapides Parish, taking successions from the petition to open through the inventory, creditor claims and the judgment of possession. Represents beneficiaries, trustees and personal representatives in will and trust litigation, including fraudulent conveyances and removal of fiduciaries. Charles D. Elliott has practiced since 1993.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation
- Office
- 720 Murray StreetAlexandria, LA 71301
FirmMetairie, LA
Since 1989 · Serves 3 counties
Practices from Metairie, New Orleans and Hammond, serving Jefferson, Orleans and Tangipahoa parishes, and has handled successions since its founding in 1989. Handles succession and estate administration, trust administration, and estate and trust litigation over will validity, trust management and the distribution of estate assets, with estate, gift and income tax planning.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 4 more
- Office
- 1 Galleria Blvd., Suite 1100Metairie, LA 70001
Solo PracticeSlidell, LA
Serves the whole state
Slidell solo practice of D. Bruce Cameron, with more than 20 years of succession and estate administration work in St. Tammany Parish and along the Northshore. Represents heirs, beneficiaries and executors from identifying assets and paying creditors to distribution, and in estate disputes over undue influence, incapacity and fraud. Evening and weekend appointments are available.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationWills Trusts
- Office
- 1290 7th St, Suite 1Slidell, LA 70458
Solo PracticeGonzales, LA
Serves 1 county
Gonzales solo practice of Christopher J. Bridges, with more than 25 years of succession and probate work in Ascension Parish, including Gonzales and Prairieville. Handles testate and intestate successions through administration, payment of estate debts and the final accounting, and contested probate matters. Also drafts wills and handles tutorships and interdictions.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationGuardianshipWills Trusts
- Office
- 714 N Burnside AveGonzales, LA 70737
Solo PracticeHouma, LA
Serves 4 counties
Houma practice of Damon J. Baldone, a lifelong Houma resident with over 30 years of law practice, serving Terrebonne Parish, with a second office in Metairie. Opens succession proceedings and handles estate administration, from transferring property titles and accessing bank accounts to paying funeral expenses, taxes and debts and completing the required accounting.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationWills Trusts
- Office
- 162 New Orleans BoulevardHouma, LA 70364
FirmMetairie, LA
Serves 2 counties
Metairie firm handling Louisiana successions and trust litigation for the New Orleans area, including ancillary successions for out-of-state clients with Louisiana property. Represents executors, heirs and legatees in insolvent successions, contested wills, usufructuary accounting and creditor claims, and trustees and beneficiaries in trust disputes. Led by board-certified Beau P. Sagona.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigationand 3 more
- Office
- 3027 Ridgelake DrMetairie, LA 70002
Solo PracticeBaton Rouge, LA
Serves the whole state
Baton Rouge firm serving clients throughout Louisiana, including out-of-state heirs with Louisiana property. Handles uncontested, contested, ancillary and corrective successions, trust administration, interdictions, succession litigation and appeals. Morgan Field has represented succession clients before the Louisiana Supreme Court; flat fees are available for many uncontested matters.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 7 more
- Office
- 6161 Perkins Rd., Suite 1BBaton Rouge, LA 70808
FirmLafayette, LA
Serves 2 counties
Lafayette litigation firm, also serving Acadia Parish, whose few practice areas include contested estates and probate litigation. Represents beneficiaries, family members and trustees in will contests over undue influence, capacity, form and forgery, contested trusts, and trustee breach-of-duty claims. Co-founded by James H. Gibson and Charles M. Kreamer.
PracticesProbate LitigationTrust LitigationPersonal Injury
- Office
- 2448 Johnston StLafayette, LA 70503
FirmNew Orleans, LA
Since 1937 · Serves 4 counties
New Orleans firm founded in 1937, with offices in Baton Rouge, Lafayette and Lake Charles. Its Estate Planning & Administration attorneys administer domiciliary and ancillary estates, prepare estate and gift tax returns, and handle contested successions and trust disputes. Partners David F. Edwards and Miriam Wogan Henry are board-certified Estate Planning and Administration Specialists.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 3 more
- Office
- 201 St. Charles Ave, Suite 5100New Orleans, LA 70170
Solo PracticeBaton Rouge, LA
Serves 1 county
Baton Rouge practice of managing attorney Siobhan Leger, handling testate and intestate Louisiana successions. Work covers small succession affidavits, federally taxable estate administrations, ancillary probates, trust administration, contested succession litigation, and tutorship and interdiction proceedings. Consultations are free for most matters, excluding Medicaid consultations.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 9 more
- Office
- 4983 Bluebonnet Blvd, Suite BBaton Rouge, LA 70809
FirmLake Charles, LA
Since 2006 · Serves 1 county
Lake Charles firm handling Louisiana successions for Calcasieu Parish families: validating a will, determining who inherits when there is no will, and preparing the documents that place heirs into possession. It also takes succession disputes, including will-validity, capacity and undue-influence challenges, and drafts wills, trusts, powers of attorney and living wills.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationWills Trusts
- Office
- 113 Dr. Michael DeBakey DriveLake Charles, LA 70601
FirmBaton Rouge, LA
Since 2002 · Serves 1 county
Baton Rouge estate planning firm that opens and administers successions in East Baton Rouge Parish and helps trustees administer trusts. Handles will contests, capacity and undue influence claims, heirship disputes, breach of fiduciary duty by succession representatives, and trust litigation. Founded by Myrna Arroyo in 2002; offers a free 15-minute consultation call.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 5 more
- Office
- 4459 Bluebonnet Blvd, Building 1 Suite ABaton Rouge, LA 70809
FirmBastrop, LA
Serves 7 counties
Bastrop firm representing clients throughout Northeast Louisiana, including Morehouse, Ouachita, Union, Richland, West Carroll, East Carroll and Madison parishes. After a death it administers trusts and estates, takes estates through probate, and handles litigation over a will or other final documents. The firm states nearly 50 years of family law and estate experience.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationWills Trusts
- Office
- 411 South Washington StreetBastrop, LA 71220
FirmCovington, LA
Since 2005 · Serves the whole state
Covington and New Orleans succession firm that serves Jefferson Parish from its New Orleans office and out-of-state heirs by phone and Zoom. Handles successions with or without a will, from small successions to court administration, and litigates testament challenges, partition actions and petitions to close stalled estates. Also pursues wrongful-death claims alongside the succession.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationWrongful Death
- Office
- 1321 Ochsner Blvd., Suite 100Covington, LA 70433
FirmNew Orleans, LA
Since 1958 · Serves 1 county
New Orleans firm whose Estate Planning and Probate Group handles testate and intestate successions, from appraising assets and paying creditors to transferring title. Litigates will, trust and succession disputes, including undue influence and executor fraud, and handles interdictions. Four partners are board-certified estate planning and administration specialists.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigationand 5 more
- Office
- 400 Poydras Street, Suite 2550New Orleans, LA 70130
FirmLafayette, LA
Serves 1 county
Lafayette business and estate firm guiding succession administrators and executors from probate of a will through distribution. Handles valuation of succession assets and limiting tax exposure, represents both succession representatives and will challengers, and handles tutorships for a decedent's minor children. William P. Stubbs, Jr. is a board-certified tax law specialist.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationTax Planningand 3 more
- Office
- 201 Rue BeauregardLafayette, LA 70508