Trust & Estate Litigation

Disputes over inheritance or other estate issues often are highly charged emotional struggles that can cause extensive damage to family relationships.
If you are involved in an estate dispute, hiring an experienced and compassionate estate attorney allows you to pursue your rights in an efficient and effective manner, focusing upon the legal issues so the controversy can be resolved and you can move on with your life.

We can help secure your rights to your inheritance, and litigate a will contest involving claims of incapacity or undue influence. If you are concerned over actions taken by a fiduciary, such as an Executor or a Trustee, we can take the steps necessary to ensure that a fiduciary performs his or her duties and is held accountable for any failure to do so.

Represented the beneficiaries of an estate in which the trustee had charged
over a million dollars in fees while their ninety year old mother was alive.
The trial was held in the Chesapeake Circuit Court against the trustee for
disgorgement of the monies taken as well as compensation for the losses
incurred by the trustee’s inappropriate investment actions.