Trust Litigation Attorneys in Wake County, North Carolina

8 trust litigation firms have an office in Wake County, North Carolina. Each listing carries the firm's practice areas, its Wake County office and its phone.

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Planning ahead

Estate Planning16 Tax Planning14 Special Needs Planning6 Asset Protection7 Medicaid Planning4

Settling an estate

Trust Administration14 Probate15 Probate Litigation10 Trust Litigation8

Capacity and care

Elder Law4 Guardianship5

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8 firms

McGuireWoods LLP

501 Fayetteville Street, Suite 500, Raleigh, NC 27601

Serves Mecklenburg County from Charlotte, with a second North Carolina office in Raleigh. The trust and estate administration team advises executors and trustees on probate, estate tax returns, distributions, and trust modifications, and handles fiduciary litigation. Chambers High Net Worth ranks the practice in North Carolina private wealth law.

Serves the whole stateEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+2

1-919-755-6600

Moore & Van Allen PLLC

150 Fayetteville Street, Suite 510, Raleigh, NC 27601

Serves Mecklenburg County from Charlotte, with a second North Carolina office in Raleigh. The trust and estate administration attorneys handle probate of wills, administration of testate and intestate estates and of trusts, post-death tax planning and fiduciary tax returns, and fiduciary litigation among beneficiaries and fiduciaries. The firm is the only Charlotte-based member of the Am Law 200.

Estate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+3

1-704-331-1000

Narron Wenzel, P.A.

3737 Glenwood Avenue, Suite 200, Raleigh, NC 27612

Serves Johnston County from Smithfield, with a second office in Benson and a Raleigh office reaching Wake. The estates group prepares wills, powers of attorney and trusts, manages the probate process, and handles estate and trust administration and trust and estate litigation. Founding partner James W. Narron has been a Board Certified Specialist in Estate Planning and Probate Law since 1987.

Since 1979Serves 2 countiesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+4

1-919-977-8018

Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A.

434 Fayetteville St., Suite 1600, Raleigh, NC 27601

A Charlotte firm founded in 1960, now more than 165 attorneys across four offices. Its trusts and estates group represents individual and corporate fiduciaries through estate and trust settlement: court inventories and accountings, estate, gift and fiduciary income tax returns, and post-mortem planning. A separate fiduciary litigation group handles trustee, executor, and beneficiary disputes.

Since 1960Estate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+2

1-919-239-2600

Trusts and Estates Law Group

4141 Parklake Avenue, Suite 310, Raleigh, NC 27612

Serves Wake County and the Triangle from three offices — Raleigh, Cary, and Wake Forest. The firm represents executors, administrators, and trustees through probate administration with and without a will, trust administration, and guardianship proceedings, and litigates will caveats, trust disputes, and financial elder abuse claims. It also runs an elder law and Medicaid practice.

Estate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+6

1-919-782-3500

Ward and Smith, P.A.

751 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 300, Raleigh, NC 27607

Headquartered in Raleigh with offices in Asheville, Winterville (Greenville), Morehead City, New Bern, and Wilmington. Its attorneys and paralegals commence, administer, and formally close estate and probate proceedings, whoever prepared the original estate plan, and its litigation group handles will caveats. Six attorneys are Board Certified Specialists in Estate Planning and Probate Law.

Serves the whole stateEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+7

1-919-277-9100

Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP

555 Fayetteville Street, Suite 1100, Raleigh, NC 27601

The Raleigh office of a transatlantic firm with four other North Carolina offices — Charlotte, Greensboro, Research Triangle Park, and Winston-Salem. Its Private Wealth Services team lists estate and trust administration and international estate and tax planning among its services, and its fiduciary litigation work covers will contests and caveats, trust contests, and probate disputes.

Serves the whole stateEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+5

1-919-755-2100

Young Moore and Henderson, P.A.

3101 Glenwood Ave, Suite 200, Raleigh, NC 27612

Serves Wake County and the Triangle from a single Raleigh office, under the Young Moore and Henderson name since 1954. The trusts and estates group counsels executors and trustees on fiduciary duties, prepares probate filings and fiduciary tax returns, and litigates will and trust challenges. Three attorneys are Board Certified Specialists in Estate Planning and Fiduciary Law.

Estate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+5

1-919-782-6860

Probate in Wake County

Probate Court Record

Wake County Clerk of Superior Court

Wake County · Superior Court District 10

Phone

1-919-792-4000

Hours

Monday-Friday 8:30 AM-5:00 PM

Office

316 Fayetteville Street Mall, Raleigh, NC 27601

Website

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E-filing

Required for attorneys

Self-represented filing

Allowed

Self-help forms

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How to file probate in Wake County →

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Trust Litigation Firms Serving Wake County

Davies Law PLLC

15720 Brixham Hill Avenue, Suite 203, Charlotte, NC 28277

A Ballantyne solo practice in Charlotte serving Mecklenburg County, led by Janice L. Davies, an NC Board Certified Specialist in Estate Planning and Probate Law. She takes personal representatives and trustees through estate and trust administration, prepares estate and income tax returns, and resolves will and trust conflicts through settlement agreements and caveats.

Solo PracticeServes 7 countiesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+8

1-704-295-1001

Carolina Estate Planning

380 Knollwood St, Suite 500, Winston-Salem, NC 27103

Serves Forsyth and Durham counties from offices in Winston-Salem and Durham. The firm guides personal representatives and trustees through estate and trust administration — inventorying assets, settling claims, distributing property, and filing fiduciary income tax returns — and litigates will contests and trust disputes when an administration goes wrong. The intake Needs Assessment call is free.

Free consultationEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+2

1-336-221-4457

Hopler, Hanna & Associates, PLLC

2314 S. Miami Blvd, Suite 151, Durham, NC 27703

Represents executors, administrators and heirs across North Carolina from an office on S. Miami Blvd in Durham/RTP. The practice opens and settles estates, supports trust administrators through their fiduciary duties, presses stalled personal representatives on behalf of beneficiaries, and litigates will and trust validity and fiduciary misconduct. In-office and virtual appointments are offered.

Serves the whole stateVirtual consultationsEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust LitigationGuardianship

1-919-244-2019

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Trust Litigation Attorneys in Wake County, North Carolina

Probate in Wake County

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Trust Litigation Firms Serving Wake County

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Trust Litigation Attorneys in Wake County, North Carolina