FirmWilmington, DE
Since 1981 · Serves the whole state
Serves clients across Delaware from a Pike Creek office at Linden Hill Station, in person or by Zoom. Handles estate administration and probate through the Register of Wills, trust settlement, uncontested guardianships, and Delaware Medicaid applications; the firm does not take contested estate, trust or probate cases. Family-owned since 1981 and focused on elder law and estate planning.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Lawand 4 more
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- 4420 Limestone Road, Suite 210Wilmington, DE 19808
FirmHockessin, DE
Serves the whole state
Serves families in New Castle, Kent and Sussex counties from the Stone Mill building in Hockessin. Handles estate administration, trust administration for trustees, and guardianships of disabled adults, minor children and a minor's property, alongside Medicaid asset protection planning. Five attorneys also practice divorce, custody and family law.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Lawand 4 more
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- 726 Yorklyn Road, Suite 300Hockessin, DE 19707
FirmWilmington, DE
Since 1931 · Serves the whole state
Serves all three Delaware counties from offices in Wilmington, Newark, Dover, Georgetown and Rehoboth Beach. Handles the probate and administration of multi-jurisdictional estates and trust administration, and represents clients in the Court of Chancery in fiduciary litigation, contested will cases and elective share proceedings. Practicing since 1931.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 3 more
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- 3205 Avenue North Boulevard, Suite 100Wilmington, DE 19803
FirmWilmington, DE
Serves 1 county
Serves trusts and estates clients from Wilmington and acts as Delaware trust counsel for financial institutions and law firms. Guides personal representatives through Delaware probate, advises on trust administration and decanting, and litigates breach of trust, capacity, undue influence and will validity disputes. Ranked Band 1 by Chambers High Net Worth for Delaware private wealth law.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 3 more
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- 1201 North Market Street, 16th FloorWilmington, DE 19801
FirmWilmington, DE
Serves 1 county
Serves trusts and estates clients from Little Falls Centre II in Wilmington. Settles estates and prepares estate and inheritance tax returns and probate documents, advises trustees on trust modifications, reformations, mergers and decantings, and handles will and trust contests and beneficiary disputes in the Delaware Court of Chancery. Recognized in the Chambers High Net Worth guide.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 3 more
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- 2751 Centerville Road, Suite 401Wilmington, DE 19808
FirmWilmington, DE
Serves the whole state
Serves clients throughout Delaware from a N. Franklin Street office in Wilmington. Advises executors, administrators and trustees through probate and trust administration, and litigates will and guardianship contests, undue influence cases and trust disputes. Also handles Medicaid planning and elder law alongside civil litigation in all Delaware courts.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 4 more
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- 1813 N. Franklin StreetWilmington, DE 19802
FirmLewes, DE
Since 2005 · Serves the whole state
Serves families statewide in Delaware from offices in Lewes and Seaford, with virtual consultations available statewide. Handles estate and trust administration and advises trustees through the trust administration process, alongside Medicaid planning and supplemental needs trusts. Focuses exclusively on legal matters affecting older and disabled individuals.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Lawand 3 more
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- 1519 Savannah RoadLewes, DE 19958
FirmWilmington, DE
Since 1992 · Serves the whole state
Serves Delaware from offices in Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach. The Wills, Trusts & Estates group administers estates from the initial probate proceedings through formal accounts, files fiduciary income tax returns, and represents fiduciaries and beneficiaries in estate and trust litigation, with elder-law and Medicaid planning. A Mid-Atlantic firm founded in 1992.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 6 more
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- 1521 Concord Pike, Suite 305Wilmington, DE 19803
FirmWilmington, DE
Since 1899 · Serves 1 county
Serves clients from One Rodney Square in Wilmington. The Trusts & Estates Group advises executors and trustees on estate settlement, including before the Court of Chancery and the IRS, and represents settlors, beneficiaries and fiduciaries in will contests, trust reformation and construction, probate controversies and fiduciary-duty claims. Practicing Delaware law since 1899.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 2 more
- Office
- 920 North King StreetWilmington, DE 19801
FirmGeorgetown, DE
Serves the whole state
Serves clients throughout Delaware from Georgetown. Its attorneys and estate administrators open estates, handle court filings and distributions for personal representatives, guide trustees through trust administration, and petition the Court of Chancery for guardianships, alongside Medicaid planning and Miller trusts. Phone and video consultations are offered.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Lawand 4 more
- Office
- 25 Chestnut StreetGeorgetown, DE 19947
FirmOcean View, DE
Since 2008 · Serves 1 county
Serves Sussex County from Ocean View. Its attorneys handle estate administration and estate planning, with of-counsel Susan Huesman Mitchell covering estates and trusts in both planning and administration; real estate settlements, 1031 exchanges and homeowner-association work make up the rest of the practice. Founded in 2008 by Tempe B. Steen, James F. Waehler and Mary R. Schrider-Fox.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateReal Estate
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- 92 Atlantic Avenue, Unit BOcean View, DE 19970
FirmWilmington, DE
Serves 1 county
Serves northern Delaware from Wilmington, with a second office in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania. Guides executors, administrators, trustees and beneficiaries through probate and estate and trust administration, including trust decanting and mergers, non-judicial settlement agreements and replacing trustees. Handles administration for clients who own property in both Delaware and Pennsylvania.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateTax PlanningBusiness Law
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- 5803 Kennett Pike, Suite B-2Wilmington, DE 19807
FirmWilmington, DE
Serves 2 counties
Serves New Castle and Sussex counties from Wilmington and Fenwick Island. Its estate administration team guides personal representatives through probate and the Register of Wills filings, offers the same services to trustees, and represents personal representatives, trustees and beneficiaries in estate and trust disputes. Raymond E. Tomasetti Jr. has practiced in Delaware for over 30 years.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 2 more
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- 707 Philadelphia PikeWilmington, DE 19809
FirmWilmington, DE
Since 1974 · Serves 1 county
Serves New Castle County from N. Orange Street in Wilmington. Its attorneys handle estate administration from the Register of Wills petition through the inventory and final accounting, guide successor trustees through trust administration, and set up Delaware asset protection and dynasty trusts. David Williams founded the firm in 1974; it also has a business law practice.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateTax Planningand 2 more
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- 1201 N. Orange Street, Suite 600Wilmington, DE 19801
FirmWilmington, DE
Serves 1 county
Serves clients from Rodney Square in Wilmington. The Tax, Trusts and Estates group probates complex estates, assists with trust litigation, will contests and contested petitions, and has substantial experience representing Delaware institutional trustees. Its planning work uses structures that reduce wealth transfer and income taxes, such as grantor trusts and GRATs.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 2 more
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- 1000 North King StreetWilmington, DE 19801
FirmWilmington, DE
Since 2017 · Serves 1 county
Serves New Castle County from Righter Parkway in Wilmington. Handles probate filings and post-death trust administration for families, and offers trustee services as an individual Delaware trustee working alongside a family's advisors. Founder Jennifer Zelvin McCloskey directs the University of Delaware's Trust Management minor and previously handled trust administration at JP Morgan.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Lawand 2 more
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- 2 Righter Parkway, Suite 100Wilmington, DE 19803