Trust, Estate and Fiduciary Litigation

Greenfield Stein & Senior, LLP, is one of the preeminent New York firms in litigation concerning wills, trusts, and estates. Our team of attorneys specializes in Surrogate's Court litigation in the New York City area, and is recognized as leaders in the field. We have handed some of the most complex New York estates, including the estates of Brooke Astor, Allen Stone, Huguette Clark, William Carey, Cy Twombley, Tran Dinh Truong, and Sylvan Lawrence. We represent fiduciaries, beneficiaries, and people who are interested in estates or trusts.

We have extensive experience in:

• Will and trust contests: challenging or defending the validity of a will or trust.
• Will and trust construction proceedings: challenging or defending the construction of a will or trust.
• Contested accounting proceedings: litigation concerning a fiduciary's actions as executor, administrator or trustee, such as managing a trust or estate's assets.
• Fiduciary removal proceedings: to remove a trustee, executor, administrator or guardian.
• Turnover proceedings: litigation to retrieve estate assets in others' possession.
• Kinship proceedings: to establish or question the inheritance rights of decedent's relatives.
• Spousal rights proceedings: litigation to establish or challenge a spouse's right to inherit and the validity of prenuptial agreements