Trust Litigation Attorneys in Maryland

16 trust litigation firms in Maryland, by city, county and firm type.

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County

City

Practice Area

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Planning ahead

Estate Planning15 Tax Planning6 Special Needs Planning9 Asset Protection7 Medicaid Planning4

Settling an estate

Trust Administration11 Probate15 Probate Litigation16 Trust Litigation16

Capacity and care

Elder Law4 Guardianship9

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16 firms

Altman & Associates

11300 Rockville Pike, Suite 708, Rockville, MD 20852

Serves Montgomery and Howard counties from Rockville, with meeting locations in Columbia, Washington, D.C., Tysons Corner and Vienna. Handles estate and trust administration and probate and trust litigation, including will contests and breach of fiduciary duty. Practice is limited to estate law; a one-hour initial consultation is $500, applied to the engagement if retained.

Since 1996Serves 2 countiesVirtual consultationsEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+5

1-301-468-3220

Alston Gray & Associates, LLC

1401 Mercantile Lane, Suite 383, Upper Marlboro, MD 20774

Serves Prince George's County from Upper Marlboro. Attorney Tiffany Alston guides personal representatives through probate and estate administration and handles estate litigation, including will contests, trust disputes and inheritance conflicts. She has served as a court-appointed probate mediator and also practices family law.

Solo PracticeSince 2004Serves 1 countyEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationTrust LitigationSpecial Needs Planning+2

1-240-829-1721

Franke Beckett LLC

151 West Street, Suite 301, Annapolis, MD 21401

Serves Anne Arundel County from downtown Annapolis with a practice limited exclusively to estates and trusts, and meets clients elsewhere in Maryland by telephone or video. Handles estate and trust administration with in-house accounting and tax returns, will and trust disputes before the Orphans' Court and Circuit Court, and estate and asset protection planning.

Serves 1 countyVirtual consultationsEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust LitigationAsset Protection

1-410-263-4876

HWK Law Group, LLC

1447 York Road, Suite 204, Lutherville, MD 21093

Serves Baltimore, Harford and Washington counties from offices in Lutherville, Bel Air and Hagerstown. Handles trust and estate administration and the probate of wills from opening the estate through the final accounting, fiduciary oversight for personal representatives and trustees, and disputes over the financial management of estate or trust assets. Also handles guardianship petitions, Medicaid applications and special needs trusts.

Serves 3 countiesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+5

1-410-567-5500

Hessey & Hessey, P.A.

3500 Boston Street, Suite 400, Baltimore, MD 21224

Serves Baltimore City and Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Harford and Howard counties from an office in Canton. Guides executors and trustees through probate and estate and trust administration, including accountings, tax returns and distributions, and represents beneficiaries and fiduciaries in will and trust contests and breach of fiduciary duty disputes. The firm's roots date to 1939.

Since 1939Serves 5 countiesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation

1-410-342-9800

Kopen & Collison, LLP

8 Goldsborough Street, Easton, MD 21601

Serves Talbot, Queen Anne's, Dorchester and Caroline counties from Easton. Provides counsel in the administration of estates and litigates matters relating to wills, trusts and estate administration, alongside preparing wills, trusts, powers of attorney and advance directives. Michael Kopen has practiced law in Easton since 1982.

Serves 4 countiesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationTrust LitigationWills Trusts

1-410-822-3900

Meng Law

85 Sherry Lane, Suite 1B, Prince Frederick, MD 20678

Serves Calvert, Charles, St. Mary's, Prince George's, Anne Arundel and Montgomery counties from Prince Frederick. Handles probate and estate and trust administration, including stalled administrations, disputed accountings and issues raised by the Register of Wills or Orphans' Court, plus will contests, trust contests, creditor-claim litigation and guardianship proceedings. George E. Meng has practiced since 1973 and is consulted by other attorneys and fiduciaries on difficult probate and trust matters.

Serves 6 countiesFree consultationEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust LitigationGuardianship

1-410-535-5500

Mobley and Brown, LLP

1 North Charles Street, Suite 1101, Baltimore, MD 21201

Serves Baltimore City and Baltimore County, including Towson, Owings Mills and Dundalk, from 1 North Charles Street downtown. The trusts-and-estates practice handles probate, estate and trust administration, probate, estate and trust litigation, and guardianship, along with wills, powers of attorney, and special-needs and Medicaid asset-protection trusts.

Serves 2 countiesFree consultationEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+6

1-410-385-0398

Parker Counts

129 North Washington Street, Easton, MD 21601

Serves Talbot and Dorchester counties from offices in Easton and Cambridge, with ties dating back to 1954. Advises fiduciaries and beneficiaries on the administration of estates and trusts, including probate, post-mortem tax planning and federal and state estate tax returns. Represents clients in will contests and other estate and trust litigation, and handles guardianships.

Serves 2 countiesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+3

1-410-822-1122

Powers & Worshtil, P.C.

5415 Water Street, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772

Serves Prince George's County and six neighboring counties from Upper Marlboro, beside the county courthouse, with a Kensington office by appointment. Handles probate and trust administration, and litigates will contests, trust disputes, breach of fiduciary duty and guardianship disputes. Has practiced in Prince George's County since 1976.

Since 1976Serves 7 countiesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+6

1-301-627-1000

Shulman Rogers

12505 Park Potomac Avenue, Sixth Floor, Potomac, MD 20854

Serves clients throughout Maryland from Potomac, with a second Maryland office in Baltimore. Its wills, trusts, estates and probate team handles probate court filings, estate administration and state and federal estate tax returns, and its attorneys serve as trustees and executors; a separate trusts and estates litigation group handles will and trust contests and breach of fiduciary duty claims.

Serves the whole stateEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+4

1-301-230-5200

Silverman Thompson

400 E Pratt Street, Suite 900, Baltimore, MD 21202

Serves Baltimore City, Baltimore County and Anne Arundel County from offices in downtown Baltimore, Towson and Annapolis. Its estates, trusts and fiduciary practice is litigation: caveat proceedings, petitions to remove a personal representative, exceptions to an estate accounting, disputes among estate and trust beneficiaries, and contested guardianships.

Since 1994Serves 3 countiesProbate LitigationTrust LitigationGuardianship

1-410-385-2225

Sims & Campbell

181 Harry S. Truman Parkway, Suite 150, Annapolis, MD 21401

Serves Maryland from offices in Annapolis and Towson. The firm administers estates and trusts, handles probate, and takes on estate and trust litigation, including will contests, caveat proceedings and fiduciary malfeasance claims.

Serves the whole stateEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+4

1-410-263-1667

The Spencer Law Group

5850 Waterloo Road, Suite 140, Columbia, MD 21045

Serves Howard, Baltimore, Carroll, Anne Arundel, Harford, Frederick and Montgomery counties from Columbia. Assists executors and beneficiaries with petitions for probate, the estate inventory, creditor claims and distribution, and litigates will contests and claims against trustees for breach of fiduciary duty.

Serves 7 countiesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationTrust LitigationTax Planning+2

1-410-203-2223

Stark & Keenan, P.A.

30 Office Street, Bel Air, MD 21014

Serves Harford and Baltimore counties from Bel Air. Guides estate administrators and beneficiaries through probate administration and handles probate litigation, including will contests, breach of fiduciary duty claims and trust contests, alongside estate planning and elder law.

Serves 2 countiesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationTrust LitigationElder LawWills Trusts

1-410-879-2222

Stein Sperling Bennett De Jong Driscoll PC

1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 700, Rockville, MD 20852

Serves Montgomery and Frederick counties from Rockville, with additional Maryland offices in Langley Park and Frederick. Its estates and trusts attorneys guide executors and trustees through estate, trust and probate administration and represent trustees, executors and beneficiaries in will contests, executor disputes and breach of fiduciary duty claims.

Serves 2 countiesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+4

1-301-340-2020

Estate planning attorneys in Maryland average $370 an hour for wills and estates work. A flat-fee package runs $1,110 to $2,220 for a simple individual will and $4,250 to $6,375 for a basic revocable trust. An online service prices the same documents in the tens to low hundreds of dollars; the Maryland will cost calculator sets the two side by side.

In Maryland, estates valued at $50,000 or less qualify for the Petition for Administration of Small Estate, a court procedure short of full probate. That route is a form rather than a court case, and most families handle it without an attorney. Above the line, formal probate generally benefits from counsel for the procedural work, even when nothing is contested. The Maryland probate calculator estimates the cost by estate value.

In Maryland, the situations where counsel is typically worth the cost are: a blended family with children from a prior relationship; a business, rental property or significant investment assets; a dependent with special needs, who needs a special-needs trust to keep benefits; an estate near or above the Maryland estate tax threshold of $5,000,000; substantial property in more than one state. Where none of these apply, an online or self-help document is often enough.

Maryland splits the two: probate attorney fees of typically 2.1% to 3.3% of the estate, but the executor's compensation follows a statutory schedule, about $19,080 on a $500,000 estate. That makes the executor's share predictable, which helps when a family member serves and is unsure what to charge.

Filter the directory by county and by the practice area you need, and look for experience with your situation; a board certification in estate planning, trust or probate law is a strong signal. Most Maryland estate planning attorneys offer an initial consultation, some free and some for a flat fee. Ask up front whether the firm bills by the hour or by package, and what your situation is expected to cost.

Trust Litigation Attorneys in Maryland

Maryland attorneys average $370 an hour for wills and estates work. A basic will from an attorney runs $1,110–$2,220; online services cost $30–$300.

Maryland imposes both a state estate tax and an inheritance tax on top of the federal exemption. Families with estates near the state thresholds usually want planning help — the math gets non-trivial fast.

Estates under $50,000 in Maryland can use a simplified affidavit instead of formal probate. Most families in that range can handle it without retaining counsel.

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(4)·Updated October 15, 2026

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Forms for Planning and Settling an Estate in Maryland

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Tools for Planning and Settling an Estate in Maryland

Free calculators and checklists to plan or settle an estate in Maryland: will and trust costs, probate, executor pay and taxes. Run each tool for Maryland.

How Do I Settle a Trust?

Settling a trust in Maryland happens outside court: the trustee acts under the state's Uniform Trust Code, notifies the beneficiaries within 90 days, then pays the debts and distributes under the trust's terms.

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Settling an estate in Maryland: the personal representative files the estate inventory within 90 days of appointment; creditors have 6 months to present claims; a simple estate closes in 6 months to 9 months.

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