Pennsylvania allows informal probate, so many families settle straightforward estates in Carbon County without hiring an attorney. A probate attorney earns the fee when the estate is contested, includes a business or out-of-state real estate, has unclear or insolvent debts, or when beneficiaries disagree.
Probate attorney fees in Pennsylvania are based on reasonable compensation, billed hourly or as a flat fee. Ask a Carbon County firm to quote a structure up front.
A probate attorney files the petition with the Orphans' Court, publishes the required creditor notices, prepares the inventory and accounting, handles creditor claims and tax filings, and guides the final distribution. They represent the personal representative — not the beneficiaries — a distinction that matters if a dispute develops.
FirmAllentown, PA
Serves 3 counties
Family-run firm with offices on Hamilton Street in downtown Allentown and in Lehighton, serving Allentown, Bethlehem, Palmerton, Lehighton, Walnutport, and Jim Thorpe. Guides executors and trustees through probate, estate administration, and trust administration, and prepares wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and advance health care directives.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbate
- Office
- 609 Hamilton Street, Suite 202Allentown, PA 18101
FirmNorthampton, PA
Serves 3 counties
Lehigh Valley firm with offices in Northampton, Bethlehem, and Palmerton, practicing for over 30 years primarily in Northampton, Lehigh, and Carbon counties. Guides executors through probate, marshals assets, pays estate debts, distributes assets, and files Pennsylvania inheritance and federal estate tax returns, and represents beneficiaries, excluded heirs, and fiduciaries in will contests and estate disputes.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationBusiness Lawand 2 more
- Office
- 1935 Center StNorthampton, PA 18067
FirmFogelsville, PA
Serves 4 counties
Fogelsville firm handling estates of any size through probate in Lehigh, Northampton, Carbon, and Berks counties, with its probate attorney carrying 25 years of experience probating estates. Handles estate administration, inheritance tax planning and post-mortem planning to reduce death tax, and probate litigation and will contests, and prepares irrevocable asset protection trusts for Medicaid planning.
PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationAsset Protectionand 2 more
- Office
- 7731 Main StreetFogelsville, PA 18051
FirmPottsville, PA
Serves 5 counties
Pottsville firm representing clients in Schuylkill, Berks, Northumberland, Carbon, and Columbia counties. Attorney Maryann Conway brings 40 years of estate planning experience to wills, living trusts, living wills, powers of attorney, guardianship, conservatorship, and asset protection.
PracticesEstate PlanningConservatorshipGuardianshipAsset Protectionand 2 more
- Office
- 1825 West Market Street, Suite 2Pottsville, PA 17901
FirmLancaster, PA
Serves 8 counties
Lancaster firm on East King Street whose Trusts & Estates Practice Group works across south-central and southeastern Pennsylvania, with main offices in Gettysburg, Hanover, Camp Hill, Lebanon, Malvern, Wyomissing, Schuylkill Haven and York. Guides personal representatives through estate administration and assists trustees, guardians and agents under powers of attorney with their fiduciary duties. Trust and estate litigators handle will contests, surcharge actions and contested guardianship proceedings.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 3 more
- Office
- 126 East King StreetLancaster, PA 17602
FirmLemoyne, PA
Since 1914 · Serves 8 counties
Lemoyne firm at 301 Market Street, where its practice opened in 1914, with offices in Wyomissing, Lancaster and Lewistown serving Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Berks and Mifflin Counties. Guides executors and administrators through estate administration, from cataloging assets to paying debts, filing tax returns and distributing to beneficiaries, administers trusts and guardianships, and litigates estate and trust disputes between beneficiaries and trustees.
PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 6 more
- Office
- 301 Market StreetLemoyne, PA 17043
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