Will Contests, Estate & Trust Controversies
In addition, to providing exemplary estate planning and trust adminstration services, the professionals at Weston Patrick stand ready to represent our clients in all manner of estate, trust and tax controversies. Our attorneys are qualified to appear before the Massachusetts and Federal courts and administrative bodies and offer the following services:
- Vigorous advocacy in all areas of probate, trust and tax controversies
- Representation of individuals in their capacities as personal representatives, executors, trustees, beneficiaries, claimants, surviving spouses and heirs-at-law
- Will contests and claims of undue influence
- Guardianship and Conservatorship proceedings
- Litigation surrounding trust interpretation and administration
- Breach of fiduciary duty claims
- Federal and state tax disputes (individual and fiduciary income taxes; estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer taxes)
- Breach of buy/sell agreements
- Business and asset valuation disputes
- Cy Pres petitions, trust reformation proceedings and complaints for instruction