Williston firm serving Williams County and the Bakken. Handles ancillary probate where the decedent lived elsewhere but owned North Dakota property, and opens probate so mineral and royalty rights pass from parents or grandparents once an oil company makes contact. Walks families through inventorying the estate, testing it against the $50,000 threshold, and noticing heirs.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbate
- Office
- 107 Main StreetWilliston, ND 58801
FirmWilliston, ND
MacMaster, Geltel & Siewert, Ltd.
Williston general practice serving Williams County and northwestern North Dakota, with two attorneys both admitted in North Dakota in 2011 and a retired founding partner. Handles estate planning and probate alongside real estate and family law. The firm has no website; contact is by phone or email.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbate
- Office
- 323 Main StreetWilliston, ND 58801
Serves northwestern North Dakota and northeastern Montana from Williston and Watford City, for more than 60 years. Represents families through probate whether the decedent died with or without a will, and keeps a dedicated probate paralegal on staff. Also handles oil and gas interests and land ownership in producing territory.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbate
- Office
- 314 1st Avenue EastWilliston, ND 58802
The longest-standing firm in Williston, serving Williams County and the Bakken. Curative probate is a named specialty: resolving the land and mineral title problems that surface on inherited property, with work alongside the oil companies operating the wells folded into the probate as standard. Also serves heirs living far from North Dakota, and handles farm succession.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateBusiness Succession
- Office
- 1500 14th Street W, Suite 200Williston, ND 58802
Williston firm licensed in North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, and South Dakota, which suits an estate spread across state lines. Handles probates and heirship matters, determines mineral ownership, and gets royalty funds released from suspense. Founder Malcolm Pippin has been a CPA since 1986. Consultation fees are paid upfront.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateWills
- Office
- 111 East BroadwayWilliston, ND 58801
FirmWatford City, ND
Since 1980
Watford City firm in McKenzie County, at the center of the Bakken. Handles personal representative appointments, testate and intestate probates, heirships, and probate litigation including challenges to a representative’s actions — and the release of suspended oil and gas revenue, where operators withhold royalties pending a probate or title cure.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateOil Gas Law
- Office
- 109 5th Street SWWatford City, ND 58854
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