Brooklyn (Kings County) practice led by Theodore Alatsas, working the Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, New York and Nassau County Surrogate's Courts for nearly 30 years. Handles probate, administration proceedings, and trust administration, plus wills and trusts, Medicaid and long-term care planning, and asset protection. Runs estate planning workshops.

Solo PracticeServes 5 countiesFree consultationEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder LawAsset ProtectionMedicaid Planning

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.

Solo PracticeSince 2009Serves 5 countiesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder LawAsset ProtectionMedicaid Planning

Bay Ridge firm working the Kings County Surrogate's Court for Brooklyn executors and heirs. Handles probate of the will, notice to heirs, collection of assets, creditors' claims, estate and decedent tax returns, judicial and informal accountings, and distribution, plus administration and kinship hearings when there is no will. A three-attorney practice limited to estate planning, elder law, probate and estate litigation.

Serves 4 countiesFree consultationEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+2

Lower Manhattan practice on Broad Street representing beneficiaries, administrators, executors, heirs, and trustees in Surrogate's Court probate proceedings and will contests across the five boroughs, Long Island, and Westchester. Handles estate administration, ancillary probate for foreign and out-of-state decedents, SCPA 1404 examinations, contested accountings, guardianship, and federal and New York estate tax returns.

Solo PracticeSince 2015Serves 8 countiesFree consultationEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+4

Five-attorney estate practice at 40 Wall Street, appearing regularly in the New York County Surrogate's Court. Gets fiduciaries appointed — letters testamentary, letters of administration c.t.a. and d.b.n. — then handles what goes wrong afterwards: contested accountings, discovery and turnover proceedings to recover estate assets, fiduciary removal, and kinship hearings proving a right to inherit. Also runs contested Article 81 guardianships.

Serves 6 countiesFree consultationEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+4

White Plains trusts-and-estates firm whose six attorneys serve the New York City metro area from one Westchester Avenue office. Handles probate and estate administration for executors, administrators and trustees, trust administration and modification, trust and estate litigation and fiduciary accountings, estate and gift tax, Medicaid protective trusts, and Article 17, 17-A and 81 guardianships.

Serves 13 countiesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateTrust LitigationElder Law+3