Probate Attorneys in Queens County, New York

16 probate firms have an office in Queens County, New York. Each listing carries the firm's practice areas, its Queens County office and its phone.

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Planning ahead

Estate Planning15 Tax Planning5 Special Needs Planning6 Asset Protection6 Medicaid Planning6

Settling an estate

Trust Administration4 Probate16 Probate Litigation8 Trust Litigation3

Capacity and care

Elder Law7 Guardianship6

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16 firms

Law Offices of Roman Aminov

147-17 Union Turnpike, Flushing, NY 11367

Flushing (Queens County) firm representing families in probate and estate administration through the New York City Surrogate's Courts, with offices in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Also handles estate litigation, asset collection and marshaling, wills and trusts, powers of attorney and health-care proxies, and Medicaid and special-needs planning. Initial phone consultations are free.

Serves 7 countiesFree consultationVirtual consultationsEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationElder LawGuardianship+2

1-347-766-2685

Law Offices of Juliet Cohen, P.C.

105-19 Metropolitan Avenue, Forest Hills, NY 11375

Forest Hills (Queens County) firm with offices in Manhattan and Brooklyn, handling probate matters for residents of Manhattan, Forest Hills and Brooklyn. Walks executors through validating the will, inventorying and appraising estate property and distributing it to beneficiaries, and administers trusts after the trustor's death — reviewing the trust documents, identifying and valuing trust assets and completing the legal, administrative and tax duties. Also covers wills and trusts, Medicaid and elder-law planning, special-needs planning and IRA inheritance planning.

Solo PracticeServes 3 countiesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder LawSpecial Needs Planning+2

1-718-544-5500

Connors & Sullivan, Attorneys at Law, PLLC

42-40 Bell Boulevard, Suite 604, Bayside, NY 11361

Bay Ridge (Brooklyn) estate and elder law firm with four further offices in Manhattan, Bayside, Middle Village and Staten Island. For executors it files the original will, contacts next of kin, collects assets and prepares income and estate tax returns, and it litigates will contests, contested accountings and contested deed transfers in Surrogate's Court. Also handles wills and trusts, special needs trusts, estate tax and capital-gains planning, and Medicaid and long-term-care planning; the initial consultation is complimentary.

Serves 4 countiesFree consultationEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationElder LawTax Planning+3

1-718-225-7200

The Law Office of George H. Dippel

42-40 Bell Boulevard, Suite 500, Bayside, NY 11361

Bayside solo practice on Bell Boulevard, filing probate and administration proceedings in the Queens County Surrogate's Court since 1993. Dippel settles the will-or-no-will question, gets the executor or administrator appointed, and then handles the real-estate work an estate usually needs — selling the decedent's house, co-op or condo and transferring deeds and co-op shares. Initial consultations are free.

Solo PracticeSince 1993Serves 6 countiesFree consultationEstate PlanningProbateBusiness LawReal Estate

1-718-229-1505

DeCandido & Azachi, PLLC

7150 Austin Street, Suite 206, Forest Hills, NY 11375

Forest Hills firm handling probate and intestate administration for Queens and Nassau families through the Queens County Surrogate's Court. Its two attorneys take executors through the petition for probate, contested objections to a will, trustee removal and accounting challenges, and Article 81 guardianships for a parent who can no longer manage their own affairs.

Serves 2 countiesFree consultationEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationTrust LitigationGuardianship+2

1-347-808-5746

The Law Office of Donna Furey

44-14 Broadway, Astoria, NY 11103

Astoria solo practice on Broadway handling Queens County estates through the Queens County Surrogate's Court. Furey gets executors and administrators appointed as fiduciary — filing the Surrogate's Court papers whether or not there was a will — then works the collection of assets, payment of bills and distribution to beneficiaries, and petitions the court for a guardian when an elderly or disabled relative needs one.

Solo PracticeServes 1 countyEstate PlanningProbateElder LawGuardianshipSpecial Needs PlanningMedicaid Planning

1-347-448-2549

Gill & Kadochnikov P.C.

80-02 Kew Gardens Road, Suite 600, Kew Gardens, NY 11415

Kew Gardens firm whose attorneys appear in the Queens Surrogate's Court on probate, administration and Surrogate's Court disputes — will contests brought on fraud, capacity or undue influence, beneficiary disputes and ambiguous will provisions. Also assists trustees with managing a trust, including tax returns and distributions, and brings partition actions when heirs inherit a co-owned property. Consultations are complimentary and conducted virtually.

Since 2014Serves 1 countyFree consultationVirtual consultationsEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+2

1-929-405-1054

The Estate Planning & Elder Law Group

71-27 Myrtle Avenue, Glendale, NY 11385

Glendale firm on Myrtle Avenue serving Queens families through the Queens County Surrogate's Court. Walks executors and administrators through supervised and unsupervised probate — managing assets, repaying debts, filing the returns and court papers, distributing to heirs — and separately administers trusts for successor trustees, covering beneficiary and creditor notification, asset valuation, payment of final expenses and taxes, and distribution.

Solo PracticeServes 1 countyEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder LawSpecial Needs Planning+4

1-718-514-2066

Ledwidge & Associates, P.C.

170-26 Cedarcroft Road, Queens, NY 11432

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.

Solo PracticeSince 2005Serves 5 countiesFree consultationEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationTrust LitigationGuardianship

1-718-276-6656

McGlashan Law Firm, P.C.

90-35 148th Street, Jamaica, NY 11435

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.

Serves 3 countiesEstate PlanningProbateTax PlanningBusiness LawReal Estate

1-212-203-8738

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

Barry Seidel & Associates, Attorneys at Law

95-60 Queens Boulevard, PMB 501, Rego Park, NY 11374

Rego Park practice limited to New York Surrogate's Court estate cases — Seidel says plainly that he does not do estate planning. The work is the hard end of administration: kinship proceedings after the Public Administrator has filed an accounting and called the family "alleged" heirs, cousin cases, and ancillary probate for out-of-state clients holding New York assets.

Solo PracticeSince 1982Serves 1 countyProbate

1-718-793-1133

Jason W. Stern & Associates

71-01 Austin Street, Suite 203, Forest Hills, NY 11375

Forest Hills firm serving Queens families through the Queens County Surrogate's Court, a block from the Long Island Rail Road. Probates wills and handles intestate administration, and litigates will contests and kinship cases, reconstructing family trees so rightful heirs recover funds that would otherwise escheat to New York's Department of Finance. Two attorneys with a combined seven decades in estate matters.

Since 2002Serves 1 countyFree consultationEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationTax Planning

1-718-261-2444

Law Office of Richard Cary Spivack

118-21 Queens Boulevard, Suite 504, Forest Hills, NY 11375

Forest Hills (Queens) solo practice helping families in Queens, Brooklyn, and Nassau since 1985. Guides families through Surrogate's Court probate and estate administration, handling filings, creditor claims, and disputes, and litigates will contests and contested guardianship petitions in Surrogate's and Supreme Court. Also prepares wills, trusts, health care proxies, and powers of attorney, with Medicaid and long-term-care planning. Offers a free consultation.

Solo PracticeSince 1985Serves 3 countiesFree consultationEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationElder LawGuardianship

1-718-544-1000

Zelenitz, Shapiro & D'Agostino, P.C.

120-32 Queens Boulevard, #2, Kew Gardens, NY 11415

Kew Gardens firm a few blocks from the Queens County Surrogate's Court, with a twelve-attorney bench. For a family settling an estate it covers the whole arc: probate or intestate administration, executor and administrator accountings, will contests on capacity, undue influence and improper execution, petitions to remove a fiduciary, and the partition action that forces a sale when heirs disagree about the family house.

Serves 1 countyFree consultationVirtual consultationsEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationReal Estate

1-718-523-1111

Law Offices of Irina Yadgarova PLLC

63-50 Wetherole Street, Rego Park, NY 11374

Rego Park firm guiding Queens executors through probate, with a second office downtown at 225 Broadway. Takes newly appointed executors from filing through distribution, handles intestate administration where survivors must be identified as heirs under state law, and advises trustees already named under an existing trust. The firm declines work outside wills, trusts, estates, probate and elder law and refers it out; Russian is spoken.

Serves 3 countiesFree consultationEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder LawTax Planning+5

1-347-699-5529

Probate in Queens County

Probate Court Record

Queens County Surrogate's Court

Queens County · 11th Judicial District

Phone

1-718-298-0500

qnssurr-info@nycourts.gov

Hours

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

Office

88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, NY 11435

Website

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E-filing

Required for attorneys

Self-represented filing

Allowed

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Probate Firms Serving Queens 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

Adon & Associates, P.C.

2387 Westchester Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461

Bronx firm on Westchester Avenue handling probate and estate administration for executors and administrators, from the initial filing through distributing assets and closing the estate. Also drafts wills, trusts, powers of attorney and advance directives, and handles estate tax planning. Consultations are free.

Serves 4 countiesFree consultationEstate PlanningProbateTax PlanningAsset Protection

1-718-819-1728

Alatsas Law Firm

2115 Avenue U, Brooklyn, NY 11229

Brooklyn (Kings County) practice led by Theodore Alatsas, working the Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, New York and Nassau County Surrogate's Courts for nearly 30 years. Handles probate, administration proceedings, and trust administration, plus wills and trusts, Medicaid and long-term care planning, and asset protection. Runs estate planning workshops.

Solo PracticeServes 5 countiesFree consultationEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder LawAsset ProtectionMedicaid Planning

1-718-233-2903

Bohm Law Firm, P.C.

1301 Coney Island Avenue, Suite 2A, Brooklyn, NY 11230

Brooklyn firm led by Pinni Bohm with a second office in Times Square, Manhattan. Petitions the New York City Surrogate's Courts for Letters Testamentary and Letters of Administration, advises executors and administrators on their duties, oversees distributions to beneficiaries and heirs, and negotiates with estate creditors. Also litigates will and trust contests, spousal right-of-election disputes, and fiduciary-misconduct claims.

Solo PracticeSince 2011Serves 5 countiesFree consultationVirtual consultationsEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationTrust LitigationTax PlanningReal Estate

1-718-407-4461

Cavallo & Cavallo

3453 East Tremont Avenue, Bronx, NY 10465

Bronx firm on East Tremont Avenue with an appointment-only New Rochelle office, serving Bronx, Westchester, Manhattan and Queens families since 1989. Walks executors and administrators through filing the will and petition with the Surrogate's Court, getting appointed, notifying heirs, beneficiaries and creditors, collecting and valuing assets, paying debts, taxes and expenses, and distributing what remains. Also takes contested probate - will contests, undue-influence claims, disputes over asset ownership and challenges to executor authority - plus trust administration, guardianships and conservatorships, and Medicaid and special-needs planning. Consultations are free and the firm practices in Spanish.

Since 1989Serves 4 countiesFree consultationEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationElder Law+6

1-718-822-2203

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

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How Much Does Probate Cost?

Probate on a $500,000 estate in New York costs an estimated $35,992. Attorney fees run 2.5% to 4% of the estate under a reasonable-compensation standard.

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How Do I Settle an Estate?

Settling an estate in New York: the personal representative files the estate inventory within 270 days of appointment; creditors have 7 months to present claims; a simple estate closes in 7 months to 9 months.

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How Much Can an Executor Charge?

New York sets executor compensation by statute — about $19,000 on a $500,000 estate, roughly 3.8%.

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Do I Need Probate?

In New York, estates with personal property of $50,000 or less use the Voluntary Administration, a court filing short of full probate.

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What Are the Creditor Claim Deadlines?

In New York, the 7 months period after the personal representative's appointment protects a representative who distributes after it; late claims can still reach undistributed assets.

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In New York, informal probate is not available, so self-filing means a formal court petition rather than a registrar filing.

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