FirmSyracuse, NY
Since 1993 · Serves 6 counties
Syracuse firm founded in 1993 to focus exclusively on estate and long-term planning, serving Onondaga, Madison, Oneida, Cortland, Oswego and Cayuga counties. Walks executors and administrators through Onondaga County Surrogate's Court — petitioning for Letters Testamentary or Letters of Administration, requesting Preliminary Letters for urgent tasks, small-estate voluntary administration under $50,000, and marshaling assets into an estate account. Also handles living trust administration and funding, irrevocable trusts, and Medicaid and elder-law planning.
PracticesEstate PlanningEstate AdministrationTrust AdministrationProbateand 3 more
- Office
- 210 E Fayette StreetSyracuse, NY 13202
FirmSyracuse, NY
Serves 7 counties
Syracuse firm of twelve attorneys with offices in Auburn and Chittenango, guiding families through New York probate court, including estates where there is no will and the administrator must distribute under New York intestacy law, and estates where a will fails the state's execution requirements. Also drafts wills and powers of attorney. Gary J. Valerino manages the estate planning and administration practice with Paula M. Highers. Consultations are free.
PracticesEstate PlanningEstate Administration
- Office
- 511 East Fayette StreetSyracuse, NY 13202
Syracuse (Onondaga County) firm representing executors, administrators, trustees and beneficiaries across Central New York in the Surrogate's Courts. Handles probate and estate administration and litigates objections to a will or a trust, alongside estate planning, wills and trusts, and Medicaid trusts.
PracticesEstate PlanningEstate AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 4 more
- Office
- 211 Tompkins StreetSyracuse, NY 13204
Solo PracticeWaterloo, NY
Serves 7 counties
Waterloo (Seneca County) firm practicing in the heart of the Finger Lakes for four generations, serving Seneca, Ontario, Wayne, Yates, Cayuga and Schuyler counties. Represents executors and administrators through appointment, notifying next-of-kin, applying for the estate EIN, valuing and liquidating assets, filing the court inventory and estate tax returns, negotiating with creditors, accounting to beneficiaries and distributing the estate. Also handles Medicaid and nursing-home planning, wills and trusts, and elder law; initial probate consultations are free.
PracticesEstate PlanningEstate AdministrationTrust AdministrationProbateand 2 more
- Office
- 20 West Main StreetWaterloo, NY 13165
FirmBinghamton, NY
Since 1898 · Serves the whole state
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.
PracticesEstate PlanningEstate AdministrationTrust AdministrationProbateand 8 more
- Office
- 99 Corporate DriveBinghamton, NY 13904
FirmAlbany, NY
Since 1991 · Serves the whole state
New York elder law and estate planning firm working from twelve offices — Albany, five on Long Island, three in the Mid-Hudson Valley, New City and White Plains, and Staten Island. Guides executors and families through probate and estate administration, and handles trusts built to keep an estate out of Surrogate's Court, Medicaid asset protection, Medicaid applications and estate tax savings. Nine lawyers and seventeen paralegals and support staff, practicing since 1991; consultations are no-cost, virtual or in person, and the firm takes uncontested probate only.
PracticesEstate PlanningEstate AdministrationTrust AdministrationProbateand 5 more
- Office
- 125 Wolf Road, Suite 225Albany, NY 12205
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