Estate and Trust Litigation

Our firm offers a unique skill set, combining expertise in estate planning with years of experience litigating complex cases. This combination has proven invaluable to achieving a client’s objectives, whether in litigation or estate planning.

We know the incisive questions to ask witnesses, are able to identify deficiencies in an expert’s testimony, and know the appropriate answers so that a basis may be established to discredit or even disqualify an adversary’s expert witness That knowledge gives us a strong advantage navigating the unique arena of the Chancery Division, Probate Part of the New Jersey Superior Court.

Our estate and trust litigation services include:

Litigation involving the interpretation of wills, trusts, and beneficiary designations
Representation in both basic and complex will contests
Evaluation and litigation of undue influence, incapacity and formality issues
Counsel to executors, trustees and attorneys-in-fact on preventing and handling disputes
Disputes involving fiduciary accountings
Evaluation of claims by beneficiaries of estates and trusts
Counsel on the challenge to or defense of lifetime transfers, gifts, joint accounts, jointly owned property, and beneficiary designations
Formation and implementation of administrative policies by fiduciaries
Court appointed fiduciary (administrator and executor)

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