Trusts & Estates

Estate Disputes

• Represented executors and beneficiaries in proceedings to interpret ambiguous will and trust provisions.
• Represented family members in intra-family disputes over rights in estates and trusts.
• Represented estates and potential beneficiaries in kinship proceedings.
• Represented heirs and interested parties in will contests, including trial of objections.
• Represented children and spouses in proceedings concerning rights under old separation agreements.

Judicial Accountings

• Represented major institutional trustees and charitable remainder beneficiaries in trust accountings involving literary properties and complex issues of rights of termination of copyright.
• Represented remainder beneficiaries of trust involving trustee's neglect of fiduciary duties.
• Represented interested parties in the trial of contested estate, trust, guardianship and guardianship accountings.

Recovery of Artwork Stolen by Nazis

• Represented heirs in proceedings to establish rights to artworks expropriated by Nazi Germany.

 

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.