FirmAlbany, NY
Since 1991 · Serves the whole state
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.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Lawand 4 more
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- 125 Wolf Road, Suite 225Albany, NY 12205
Solo PracticeBinghamton, NY
Since 1985
Binghamton (Broome County) practice serving the Southern Tier since 1985 and appearing in New York's probate courts. Handles all aspects of estate and trust administration, including will-contest proceedings and family disputes, and prepares simple and complex wills and trusts. Uses tax and estate-planning techniques to reduce federal and New York estate transfer taxes.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 2 more
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- 84 Court Street, Suite 201Binghamton, NY 13901
Solo PracticeElizabethtown, NY
Serves 1 county
Elizabethtown (Essex County) general civil practice serving the Adirondacks for more than 30 years. Handles probate and estate administration for trustees and personal representatives — record keeping, filing all necessary tax returns and reports, and filing judicial accountings for trusts and estates — and represents clients in disputes that arise during estate administration, alongside wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and elder law.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationElder Law
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- 103 Hand AvenueElizabethtown, NY 12932
FirmNiagara Falls, NY
Serves 2 counties
Niagara Falls firm handling estate and trust settlements for families filing in the Niagara County Surrogate's Court. The practice walks an executor through appointment, inventorying assets the decedent held in their own name, tracking down digital and safe-deposit records, paying credit-card and hospital debts, and distributing what remains to beneficiaries.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Lawand 2 more
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- 345 Buffalo AvenueNiagara Falls, NY 14303
FirmRochester, NY
Serves 1 county
Rochester (Monroe County) firm whose estate group represents executors through administration — addressing disputes, resolving claims, paying estate taxes and distributing assets — and advises individual and corporate trustees on trust administration, distributions and terminations. Founding partner Frank B. Iacovangelo serves as Public Administrator in and for Monroe County.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 2 more
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- 180 Canal View BlvdRochester, NY 14623
FirmBrewster, NY
Serves 4 counties
Brewster firm representing Lower Hudson Valley families across Putnam, Dutchess, Westchester and Rockland counties. Carries executors and administrators through every stage of estate administration — the probate court filings, the deadlines and the disputes among beneficiaries — and litigates will disputes and accounting disputes, alongside Article 81 guardianship petitions and trust administration for trustees. Principal Andres D. Gil is a combat veteran and former assistant district attorney.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 5 more
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- 973 NY-22, Suite 3Brewster, NY 10509
FirmKew Gardens, NY
Since 2014 · Serves 1 county
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.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 3 more
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- 80-02 Kew Gardens Road, Suite 600Kew Gardens, NY 11415
FirmSmithtown, NY
Serves 2 counties
Smithtown elder law firm helping seniors and their families across Suffolk and Nassau counties, including Hauppauge, Nesconset, Lake Grove and Centereach. Michael C. McCarthy concentrates in probate, estate administration and guardianship, and Michele D. Morley in trust administration and asset protection, alongside the firm's core work qualifying seniors and the disabled for Medicaid-paid care at home and in nursing homes.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Lawand 3 more
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- 162 Terry RoadSmithtown, NY 11787
FirmBuffalo, NY
Since 1959
Buffalo firm on Main Street handling probate, estate and trust administration, and estate litigation for estates, fiduciaries and beneficiaries. Admits wills to probate, deals with creditors, transfers probate and non-probate assets, and minimizes estate and trust income tax. Cross-border practice for Canadians holding U.S. property.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 2 more
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- 465 Main Street, Suite 600Buffalo, NY 14203
Solo PracticeNew York, NY
Midtown Manhattan trusts-and-estates practice on Madison Avenue, serving families and fiduciaries throughout the tri-state area and in Florida. Handles probate and estate administration — estate inventory and appraisal, the petition to Surrogate's Court, letters testamentary, paying debts and claims against the estate, and phased distribution to heirs — plus revocable and irrevocable trusts and private fiduciary services. Michael J. Greenberg is admitted in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Florida, and also handles business succession and generation-skipping transfer-tax planning.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Lawand 2 more
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- 515 Madison Avenue, 31st FloorNew York, NY 10022
FirmSaratoga Springs, NY
Since 2015 · Serves 1 county
Saratoga Springs firm whose estate settlement practice walks executors and administrators through fiduciary appointment, collecting estate assets, paying debts, and distributing to beneficiaries, and also represents beneficiaries. Drafts wills, trusts, and health-care proxies, handles Medicaid and elder law, and runs a farm succession planning practice for farm families.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Law
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- 538 Maple Avenue, Suite CSaratoga Springs, NY 12866
FirmAlbany, NY
Since 1946 · Serves 4 counties
Albany firm at Corporate Woods, with offices in Saratoga Springs, Kingston, and Queensbury, taking families through probate, estate administration, and trust administration: re-titling assets, transfers to surviving joint owners and named beneficiaries, and the income, estate, and gift tax issues that arise at death. Litigates will contests, construction proceedings, and contested accountings, and practises elder law, Medicaid, and special-needs planning. Has served the greater Capital Region, Hudson Valley, and Adirondacks since 1946.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 3 more
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- 7 Southwoods BoulevardAlbany, NY 12211
FirmUtica, NY
Since 2012 · Serves 2 counties
Utica firm with offices in Boonville and Lowville whose post-death side handles probate and trust administration, staffed by a dedicated probate paralegal alongside the attorneys. Its planning side covers wills, powers of attorney and health care proxies, revocable and asset-protection trusts, nursing-home and Medicaid planning, tax planning, and special-needs planning. Partner Robert K. Hilton III has helped over 600 families protect assets or qualify for Medicaid and has prevailed in over 50 Medicaid fair hearings.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Lawand 4 more
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- 2100 Genesee StreetUtica, NY 13502
Solo PracticeGlendale, NY
Serves 1 county
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.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Lawand 5 more
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- 71-27 Myrtle AvenueGlendale, NY 11385
FirmSaratoga Springs, NY
Serves 1 county
Saratoga Springs firm handling estate administration for families filing in the Saratoga County Surrogate's Court. The attorneys represent executors, administrators and trustees through every stage of a Surrogate's Court proceeding, and the firm's own litigation practice takes on adversarial challenges to probate rather than referring them out.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 3 more
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- 68 West AvenueSaratoga Springs, NY 12866
FirmBrooklyn, NY
Serves 3 counties
Brooklyn firm on Avenue L handling probate and estate administration for New York families, with a second office in Manhattan. Walks executors through collecting assets, obtaining the estate EIN, opening the estate account, paying debts and taxes, transferring estate property and closing the estate, and represents administrators distributing an intestate estate under EPTL 4-1.1. Many matters are billed at a flat fee.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 6 more
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- 2926 Avenue LBrooklyn, NY 11210
Solo PracticeNew York, NY
Since 2009 · Serves 5 counties
Midtown Manhattan practice on Lexington Avenue guiding executors and beneficiaries through New York probate and trust administration in the five borough Surrogate's Courts: locating and valuing assets, resolving creditor claims in the statutory priority order, and preparing the accounting the court requires before a final distribution. Also drafts wills, trusts, asset-protection plans, and Medicaid plans. Run by Gabriel Katzner, who passed the CPA exam before law school; the practice also keeps a California office in Encinitas.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Lawand 2 more
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- 360 Lexington Avenue, 15th FloorNew York, NY 10017
Solo PracticeCanandaigua, NY
Canandaigua practice on North Street concentrating on elder law, estate and trust planning and administration, and long-term-care and disability planning. Edward C. "Russ" Kenyon has spent over 30 years helping clients with estates, trusts, Medicaid, and long-term-care plans, and is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. The firm returned under the Kenyon & Kenyon name on March 1, 2025.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Law
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- 11 North Street, Suite 100Canandaigua, NY 14424
Solo PracticeGarden City, NY
Serves 3 counties
Garden City practice with by-appointment offices in Hauppauge and Harrison, covering probate and trust administration for Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester families. Walks executors and trustees through appointment, managing assets, paying debts, and distributing property, including the case where assets were never funded into the trust and must go through probate separately. Also handles Medicaid and nursing-home planning, special-needs and blended-family planning, and IRA and retirement planning. Anthony Moccia began as a law clerk at the firm and took ownership in May of 2021.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Lawand 2 more
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- 1305 Franklin Avenue, Suite 170Garden City, NY 11530
FirmBrooklyn, NY
Serves 1 county
Brooklyn firm on East 4th Street running separate estate planning and real estate divisions, in practice over 40 years. Guides executors and administrators through New York probate: the statutory inventory and list of claims, notice by publication and certified mail to creditors, notice to beneficiaries that the will has been admitted, and the formal accounting a beneficiary may demand. Also handles estate and trust administration, Medicaid applications, veterans benefits, special-needs planning, and asset protection.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Lawand 3 more
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- 1377 East 4th Street, Floor 3Brooklyn, NY 11230