Trusts & Estates Litigation
Adams Leclair attorneys regularly provide representation to trustees, executors, administrators, and beneficiaries in estate litigation.
Adams Leclair Trusts and Estates Litigation attorneys are devoted to protecting your rights to share in your family’s assets. We have extensive experience in all types of courts, including Surrogate’s Court where probate and estate proceedings are handled.
Our attorneys represent fiduciaries (executors, administrators, and trustees), creditors, and beneficiaries in litigation matters. We actively pursue and defend claims for and against executors and trustees raised during the administration process. We have compelled institutional trustees to restore losses caused by their imprudent mismanagement of trust portfolios and have compelled uncooperative fiduciaries to distribute assets to proper beneficiaries.
Our attorneys guide fiduciaries (executors and administrators) through every step of the probate and administration process. This includes submitting the will to the court, locating and securing assets, resolving and negotiating debts, and ensuring assets are distributed according to the decedent’s wishes and applicable state laws.
Adams Leclair’s experience includes:
- Contested Accountings
- Will contests
- Breach of fiduciary duty claims, including claims of potential self-dealing, negligent management and other misconduct
- Discovery proceedings
- Challenges to trust validity
- Turnover proceedings
- Disputes over asset distribution, including joint accounts
In addition, we litigate matters involving constructive trusts, workers’ compensation trusts, ERISA trusts, and statutory trusts established under provisions of the New York State Lien Law.
We are members of the Trusts and Estates Law Section of the New York State Bar Association and the Estate Planning Council of Rochester.
Contact an Adams Leclair Trust and Estate Litigation Attorney:
Key Contact: Anthony J. Adams Jr.
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Steven E. Cole
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Paul L. Leclair
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Mallory K. Smith
View Profile“There is no substitute for experience when dealing with the special responsibilities of trustees and other fiduciaries. Our attorneys have that experience.”
Anthony J. Adams Jr., Partner