Watertown practice founded in 1985, serving Jefferson, Lewis and St. Lawrence counties in the North Country. Assists fiduciary clients with all aspects of estate and trust administration: preparing court documents, marshalling assets, opening bank accounts, bookkeeping, tax returns, accounting and closure. Home visits offered when needed.

Solo PracticeSince 1985Serves 3 countiesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbate

Capital Region trusts and estates practice in Latham, with offices in New York City, Garden City, Hudson and Lake Placid and more than 280 years of combined attorney experience. Handles estate and trust administration, probate, estate and trust litigation, guardianship under Article 81 and 17-A, Medicaid and special needs planning, and tax planning.

Serves 13 countiesFree consultationVirtual consultationsEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateTrust LitigationElder Law+4

Syracuse firm on East Washington Street with a by-appointment Watertown office, serving Central and Northern New York. Walks heirs and fiduciaries through Surrogate's Court from the petition to appoint the executor through the inventory, debts, distributions, tax returns, and final accounting; administers trusts for successor trustees; and litigates objections to probate, trust-validity contests, trustee removals, and accounting proceedings. Its planning side covers elder law, Medicaid trusts and applications, dementia planning, guardianship and special-needs planning, and elder care coordination.

Since 2015Serves 2 countiesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+4

Binghamton (Broome County) firm tracing its lineage to 1898, with seven New York offices from Ithaca to Walton. Its trusts, estates and elder law group counsels executors, administrators and trustees through estate and trust administration, obtains Letters Testamentary and Letters of Administration, and litigates disputed executor appointments in Surrogate's Court.

Since 1898Serves the whole stateEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+6

New York elder law and estate planning firm working from twelve offices — Albany, five on Long Island, three in the Mid-Hudson Valley, New City and White Plains, and Staten Island. Guides executors and families through probate and estate administration, and handles trusts built to keep an estate out of Surrogate's Court, Medicaid asset protection, Medicaid applications and estate tax savings. Nine lawyers and seventeen paralegals and support staff, practicing since 1991; consultations are no-cost, virtual or in person, and the firm takes uncontested probate only.

Since 1991Serves the whole stateFree consultationVirtual consultationsEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder LawTax Planning+3