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 (Manhattan) boutique on Third Avenue whose practice is trust, estate and fiduciary litigation. Represents heirs, spouses, next of kin, executors, trustees and charities in Surrogate's Courts across the state — will and trust contests, contested accountings, turnover and kinship proceedings, and fiduciary removal — and handles guardianships.

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