Estate Planning for Albany County, New York Property Owners

Albany firm whose estate group guides executors and trustees through Surrogate's Court, obtaining Letters Testamentary or Letters of Administration, filing accountings, and distributing estate proceeds. Also handles trust administration and represents beneficiaries in will contests and trust challenges. Serves Albany, Schenectady and Troy.

PracticesEstate PlanningEstate AdministrationTrust AdministrationProbateand 2 more

Office

5 Pine West Plaza, Suite 507Albany, NY 12205

Phone

(518) 456-0082

Albany firm on Wolf Road handling Surrogate's Court work for families in Albany County and beyond. It probates wills through the county Surrogate's Court and litigates contested ones — challenges based on capacity, undue influence, forged signature or defective witnessing — interviewing beneficiaries and relatives and putting on medical experts where the decedent's mental state at signing is in dispute.

PracticesEstate PlanningEstate AdministrationProbateProbate Litigation

Office

159 Wolf Road, Suite 305Albany, NY 12205

Phone

(518) 465-6420

Cairo (Greene County) two-lawyer practice serving the Catskills — Coxsackie, Catskill, Windham, Hudson, Ravena and Kingston. Guides estate administrators and executors through probate, and drafts wills, trusts, powers of attorney and health care proxies alongside Medicaid asset protection. Michael Esslie and Denise Frenia Esslie, a husband-and-wife team each with more than 16 years in practice, handle matters personally and offer free consultations, home visits and after-hours appointments.

PracticesEstate PlanningEstate AdministrationProbateElder LawMedicaid Planning

Office

550 Main StreetCairo, NY 12413

Phone

(518) 622-9910

Troy (Rensselaer County) firm serving the Capital District, with more than 30 years of probate and estate administration work in the Troy and Albany areas. Handles an estate start to finish — probating the will, estate and income tax, liquidating assets, accountings and distribution to beneficiaries — plus wills, trusts, Medicaid planning and asset protection.

PracticesEstate PlanningEstate AdministrationProbateElder Lawand 2 more

Office

317 Brick Church RoadTroy, NY 12180

Phone

(518) 279-1143

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 PlanningEstate AdministrationTrust AdministrationProbateand 4 more

Office

7 Southwoods BoulevardAlbany, NY 12211

Phone

(518) 465-7581

Clifton Park firm, with offices in Albany, Saratoga Springs and Glens Falls, handling Surrogate's Court work for Capital Region executors. The estate administration team files the probate petition, notices interested parties, marshals and values assets, pays debts and taxes and distributes what remains — including contested wills, out-of-state heirs, and ancillary probate for property held in other states.

PracticesEstate PlanningEstate AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 7 more

Office

805 Route 146Clifton Park, NY 12065

Phone

(518) 371-8888