Probate Attorneys in Cass County, North Dakota

20 probate firms have an office in Cass County, North Dakota. Each listing carries the firm's practice areas, its Cass County office and its phone.

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Planning ahead

Estate Planning21 Tax Planning4

Settling an estate

Trust Administration12 Probate20 Probate Litigation1 Trust Litigation1

Capacity and care

Elder Law2 Conservatorship1 Guardianship4

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20 firms

Anderson, Bottrell, Sanden & Thompson (ABST Law)

4132 30th Avenue South, Suite 100, Fargo, ND 58104

Serves Fargo-Moorhead and Cass County. Probate work runs from identifying assets and the personal representative through commencing the estate, appointing the representative, and distributing both probate and non-probate property, including jointly held accounts and life insurance proceeds. Also handles farm and business succession.

Since 1981Estate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateTrust LitigationAgricultural Law

1-701-235-3300

Astrup Law Office, P.C.

3186 Sienna Dr. S., Fargo, ND 58104

Solo practice in Fargo serving Cass County and the surrounding Red River Valley. Jason Astrup has practiced in North Dakota since 2005 and appears as counsel for the personal representative in Cass County probate matters. Also handles estate planning, trust administration, and guardianship and conservatorship.

Solo PracticeEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateGuardianshipBusiness Law

1-701-356-1287

Cheryl Bergian Law Office

112 N. University Drive, Suite 201, Fargo, ND 58102

Solo practice in Fargo serving North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota. Handles probate from the petition and appointment of the personal representative through creditor notices, inventory, payment of debts and taxes, sale of estate real estate, and distribution, representing either the representative or an heir disputing a will. Free 30-minute consultations.

Solo PracticeFree consultationEstate PlanningProbateGuardianshipWills

1-701-232-5051

Conmy Feste Ltd.

3369 45th Street South, Fargo, ND 58104

Fargo firm serving the Fargo-Moorhead area, North Dakota, and northwestern Minnesota. Represents individual and corporate fiduciaries through probate and trust and estate administration, including court filings, and litigates will and trust disputes, land disputes, and contested guardianships in North Dakota and Minnesota state courts. The firm dates to 1879.

Since 1879Estate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateTax PlanningWills

1-701-353-0454

Dwyer Law Office, PLLC

5306 51st Ave. S., Suite B, Fargo, ND 58104

Fargo firm serving Cass County and practicing in both North Dakota and Minnesota. Handles probate where the decedent held real estate solely or as a tenant in common, or accounts with no co-owner or named beneficiary, filing to appoint the personal representative, inventorying property, and distributing it. Also handles guardianship and conservatorship and farm and business succession.

Estate PlanningProbateBusiness LawReal Estate Law

1-701-235-2040

Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

51 Broadway North, Suite 400, Fargo, ND 58102

Fargo office of a regional firm, serving the Red River Valley, North Dakota, and northern Minnesota. Its trusts and estates group of more than 30 attorneys and professionals represents personal representatives, trustees, and charitable institutions, and includes nine Fellows of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.

Estate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateTax PlanningCharitable Planning

1-701-237-8200

Fremstad Law

3003 32nd Avenue South, Suite 240, Fargo, ND 58103

Fargo firm serving North Dakota and Minnesota, both Uniform Probate Code states. Advises which probate track applies — informal, unsupervised formal, or supervised formal — then carries personal representatives through inventorying assets, noticing heirs and creditors, paying debts in priority order, filing tax returns, and distribution.

Since 2008Estate PlanningProbateConservatorshipGuardianship

1-701-478-7620

Gjesdahl Law, P.C.

1375 21st Avenue North, Fargo, ND 58102

Fargo firm serving the greater Fargo area, with estate planning and probate handled by attorney Travis R. Jung. Sets timing expectations up front: a North Dakota probate runs at least six months from the initial court date, realistically nine to twelve, and at least eighteen where a federal estate tax return is required. Initial consultations are paid.

Estate PlanningProbateElder Law

1-701-237-3009

Kennelly Business Law

1213 NP Ave, Suite 301, Fargo, ND 58102

Serves North Dakota and Minnesota from Valley City, Fargo, and Wahpeton. Estate work covers wills, trusts, guardianships and conservatorships, powers of attorney, and probate, and the firm takes estate disputes from both sides — challenging a will or an executor’s conduct, or defending one. Business succession is the focus; the lead attorney is a trained CPA.

Estate PlanningProbateBusiness LawReal Estate Law

1-701-478-4900

Nilles Law Firm

201 5th St N, Suite 1800, Fargo, ND 58102

Downtown Fargo firm serving North Dakota, Minnesota, and South Dakota. Estate and trust administration guides families through probate, alongside estate tax planning, guardianship and conservatorship, and estate litigation. The firm traces its roots more than 100 years and has operated in downtown Fargo for its entire existence.

Estate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbate

1-701-237-5544

Ohnstad Twichell, P.C.

444 Sheyenne Street, Suite 102, West Fargo, ND 58078

Serves Cass, Traill, and Benson counties from five offices in West Fargo, Casselton, Hillsboro, Page, and Maddock. Addresses newly named personal representatives and successor trustees directly: cataloging and valuing assets, filing court documents, paying creditor claims and estate taxes, and distributing to heirs, with litigation when disputes arise.

Estate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Law

1-701-707-0310

Rosenquist Law Office

3523 45th St S, Suite 100, Fargo, ND 58104

Grand Forks firm with offices in Fargo and Larimore, practicing in North Dakota and Minnesota. Its probate page is framed around family conflict as much as procedure: dying without a will, contesting one, creditors, estranged children, and the division of personal and sentimental property, alongside estate administration. Free consultations, available 24 hours a day.

Free consultationEstate PlanningProbate

1-701-772-0855

Sandin Law

474 45th St S, Suite 201, Fargo, ND 58103

Fargo firm handling probate and trust administration in North Dakota and Minnesota. Walks personal representatives through informal probate, where they manage assets and file the documents, and formal probate, where the judge approves nearly every detail. Successor trustees get asset gathering, valuation, creditor notification, and distribution.

Estate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateCharitable Planning

1-701-404-2900

Scheidecker Law

1630 First Ave. N., Suite B #109, Fargo, ND 58102

Solo practice in Fargo covering the Fargo-Moorhead border area, Cass and Clay counties. Handles probate in both states and is specific about scope: Minnesota probate applies above $75,000 and North Dakota above $50,000, and full resolution usually runs 12 to 18 months either side of the river. Free consultations.

Solo PracticeFree consultationEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateWills

1-701-941-5800

Schwab, Thompson & Frisk

820 34th Avenue E., Suite 200, West Fargo, ND 58078

Serves the Fargo-Moorhead area and Bismarck from two offices. The wills and estate practice works from North Dakota’s execution rules under N.D.C.C. ch. 30.1-08 and the self-proving affidavit option, and covers who may serve as executor and the grounds for challenging one as unsuitable. Free consultations.

Free consultationEstate PlanningProbateWills

1-701-365-8088

Serkland Law Firm

10 Roberts Street N, Fargo, ND 58102

Fargo firm founded in 1888, representing professionals, business owners, and families. Probate and trust administration sits alongside trust and estate disputes and litigation, guardianships and conservatorships, preparation of estate and fiduciary tax returns, and farm and family business succession planning. Five attorneys carry the estate practice, led by Michael C. Studer.

Since 1888Free consultationEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateGuardianshipWills

1-701-232-8957

SW&L Attorneys (Severson, Wogsland & Liebl)

4627 44th Ave S, Suite 108, Fargo, ND 58104

Fargo firm founded in 2013, serving all of North Dakota and western Minnesota. Publishes state-specific probate guidance — probate is needed where the decedent held sole-name real estate without a transfer-on-death or joint deed, or property over $50,000 — and walks personal representatives through the estate account, creditor notices, and claims. The first call is free unless you hire them.

Since 2013Free consultationEstate PlanningProbate

1-701-297-2890

Swenseth Law Office, PLLC

4201 38th Street SW, Suite 105, Fargo, ND 58104

Serves rural North Dakota from Devils Lake, with meeting space in Grand Forks and Fargo. Handles probate and trust administration, Medicaid asset protection, special needs and life insurance trusts, and farm and business succession for families, farmers, and small businesses. An attorney and a CPA are both on staff, so estate accounting and tax work stay in one office.

Solo PracticeEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateTax PlanningBusiness Succession

1-701-662-5058

Vogel Law Firm

218 NP Avenue, Fargo, ND 58102

Serves North Dakota and Minnesota from Fargo, Bismarck, and Moorhead. Probate administration covers petitions, inventories and accountings, estate tax returns, and property transfer deeds; the litigation side handles will contests, fiduciary claims, and disputed estate tax matters. Mineral probate is a named intake category.

Since 1880Serves the whole stateEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateTax PlanningBusiness Succession

1-701-237-6983

Wold Johnson, P.C.

500 2nd Ave N, Suite 400, Fargo, ND 58102

Downtown Fargo firm serving the Fargo-Moorhead area. Assists personal representatives with probate filings, preparation of tax returns, and coordinating beneficiary distributions, and runs a separate fiduciary litigation practice representing both fiduciaries and beneficiaries in will contests and breach of fiduciary duty claims. Also handles business succession and real estate transfers to heirs.

Since 1916Estate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateBusiness Succession

1-701-235-5515

Probate in Cass County

Probate Court Record

Cass County District Court

Cass County · East Central Judicial District

Phone

1-701-451-6900

09clerk@ndcourts.gov

Hours

Monday-Friday 8:00 AM-5:00 PM

Office

211 9th Street South, Fargo, ND 58103

Website

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E-filing

Required for attorneys

Filing in person

Walk-ins accepted

Self-represented filing

Allowed

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How to file probate in Cass County →

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Probate Firms Serving Cass County

Green Law Firm, P.C.

328 Dakota Avenue, Wahpeton, ND 58075

Solo practice in Wahpeton serving Richland County and the Wahpeton-Breckenridge border communities, licensed in North Dakota and South Dakota. Takes on estate administration for newly appointed personal representatives, welcomes out-of-state executors needing local counsel, and represents excluded heirs in will contests. Free consultations.

Solo PracticeFree consultationEstate PlanningProbateElder LawTax Planning

1-701-672-1218

Krassin Law Office

120 S. First Street, Wahpeton, ND 58075

Solo practice in Wahpeton serving Richland County and the Wahpeton-Breckenridge border area. Handles wills, estates, and probate alongside business formation and family law. Don Krassin was admitted in North Dakota in 1976; a toll-free line serves out-of-area clients.

Solo PracticeEstate PlanningProbateWills

1-701-642-4747

Smith & Strege, Ltd.

321 Dakota Avenue, Wahpeton, ND 58075

Wahpeton firm across from the Richland County Courthouse, with four attorneys. Provides probate services in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota, and manages estates in other states where clients owned property, which suits families facing an ancillary probate. Elder law covers guardianships, Medicaid, and nursing home issues.

Since 1981Estate PlanningProbateTax Planning

1-701-642-2668

Crowley Fleck PLLP

100 West Broadway Avenue, Suite 250, Bismarck, ND 58501

Bismarck office of a regional firm, the largest of its North Dakota offices, with a second office in Williston. Guides personal representatives and trustees through asset management, estate and gift tax returns, fiduciary accountings, elective share and allowances, and beneficiary and creditor claims, and carries trust and estate disputes through appeal.

Since 1895Serves the whole stateEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateBusiness SuccessionEstate Tax Planning

1-701-223-6585

Larson Latham Huettl LLP

1100 College Drive, Bismarck, ND 58501

Bismarck firm serving Bismarck, Mandan, and the rest of North Dakota. Handles formal and informal probate, guardianship and conservatorship, will contests, and trust administration, within an elder law practice spanning Medicaid, nursing home planning, and veterans’ medical care. Two attorneys are members of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys.

Serves the whole stateEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder LawMedicaid Planning

1-701-223-5300

Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm

38 Second Avenue East, Suite A, Dickinson, ND 58601

The oldest law firm in western North Dakota and eastern Montana, practicing from Dickinson since 1889, with lawyers licensed in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana. Estate planning and probate is a named practice with three assigned attorneys. Mineral work includes clearing title to oil, gas, coal and wind interests and dormant mineral claims. Free consultations.

Since 1889Serves the whole stateFree consultationEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateBusiness LawEstate Tax Planning

1-701-456-3210

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Forms for Planning and Settling an Estate in North Dakota

Free North Dakota forms to plan or settle an estate: a will, trust, powers of attorney, TOD deed and the probate forms. Prepare each form for North Dakota.

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Revocable Living Trust

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Last Will and Testament

In North Dakota, a will is signed before 2 witnesses, and a self-proving affidavit signed with it lets the court admit it without witness testimony.

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Tools for Planning and Settling an Estate in North Dakota

Free calculators and checklists to plan or settle an estate in North Dakota: will and trust costs, probate, executor pay and taxes. Run each tool.

How Much Does Probate Cost?

Probate on a $500,000 estate in North Dakota costs an estimated $24,994. Attorney fees run 1.8% to 2.9% of the estate under a reasonable-compensation standard.

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How Do I Settle an Estate?

Settling an estate in North Dakota: the personal representative files the estate inventory within 180 days of appointment; creditors have 3 months to present claims; a simple estate closes in 4 months to 6 months.

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How Much Can an Executor Charge?

North Dakota pays executors reasonable compensation, typically 2.2% to 3.8% of the estate.

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Do I Need Probate?

In North Dakota, estates valued at $100,000 or less skip probate with the Small Estate Affidavit, 30 days after death.

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What Are the Creditor Claim Deadlines?

In North Dakota, creditors have 3 months from first publication of the creditor notice to present claims; late claims are barred.

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Can I Self-File Probate?

In North Dakota, informal probate is available, and a self-represented executor can usually handle it for a simple, uncontested estate.

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Probate Attorneys in Cass County, North Dakota

Astrup Law Office, P.C.

Probate in Cass County

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Probate Firms Serving Cass County

Forms for Planning and Settling an Estate in North Dakota

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Last Will and Testament

Tools for Planning and Settling an Estate in North Dakota

How Much Does Probate Cost?

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How Much Can an Executor Charge?

Do I Need Probate?

What Are the Creditor Claim Deadlines?

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Probate Attorneys in Cass County, North Dakota

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