Serves Stearns County from its Saint Cloud office, which offers personal estate planning, business and succession planning, and tax advising. The firm's Private Client Services group administers estates and trusts and represents fiduciaries and beneficiaries in disputes over will and trust validity, fiduciary duties, undue influence, and removal of a trustee.
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Serves Stearns County and Central Minnesota from St. Cloud. Handles probate and estate administration and litigates probate and trust disputes, including challenges to wills and deeds for lack of capacity or undue influence and disputes over a personal representative's management of an estate. Planning covers wills, trusts, estate-tax minimization, and business succession.
Serves Hennepin County and the Twin Cities from Bloomington, and Stearns County from a St. Cloud office. Guides personal representatives through Minnesota probate and successor trustees through trust administration, and handles guardianship, conservatorship and estate tax planning. Gold Winner of the 2025 Minnesota's Best Reader's Choice Award for estate planning.
Probate in Stearns County
Probate Court Record
Stearns County District Court
Stearns County · Seventh Judicial District
Phone
Hours
Monday-Friday 8:00 AM-4:30 PM
Office
725 Courthouse Square, St. Cloud, MN 56303
Website
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Self-represented filing
Allowed
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