Trust and Estate Litigation

Schenck, Price, Smith & King provides a full range of legal services within the area of estate and trust litigation as well as general fiduciary and probate litigation. Our clients include fiduciaries, such as executors or trustees, both corporate and individuals, as well as beneficiaries, whether they be individuals, corporations or charities. The types of matters handled by our trust and estate litigators include:

• will contests
• will and trust reformations, including Special Needs Trusts
• accountings (for trusts, estates, guardianships, or under a power of attorney)
• disputes involving trusts, powers of attorney, living wills and health care representatives
• disputes among co-fiduciaries
• breach of fiduciary duty claims
• insolvent estates
• elective share, disinherited spouse and other spousal claims
• court approval of Special Needs Trusts
• Medicaid disputes

We also represent fiduciaries within broad areas of other litigation, including guardianships and other elder law matters.

Our estate and trust litigators have extensive experience in litigation and are intimately familiar with tax and estate laws that arise in these matters. Attorneys from the firm's Tax, Trust and EstateDepartment are involved to ensure the best results for the firm's clients.

Our lawyers are renowned nationally and statewide in the area of estate, trust, and guardianship litigation. They have lectured and published extensively to professionals and civic groups on these issues. They are involved in leadership positions in national and local organizations in these fields.

The firm's trust and estate litigators endeavor to find creative solutions to estate and trust disputes but will aggressively litigate a matter to conclusion where necessary. Our goal is to achieve the best result possible in a cost-efficient manner.

For Additional Information Contact Meredith L. Grocott, Basil F. O'Connor or Shirley B. Whitenack