Estate & Trust Litigation

Estate and trust litigation often involves complex financial, personal, and emotional implications. Archer’s estate and trust litigators are some of the most esteemed and experienced litigators in this area—in fact, many are Fellows of the America College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), and are active members of its Fiduciary Litigation Committee. Our team combines deep legal knowledge with decades of litigation experience to resolve high-stakes trust, estate, and fiduciary duty matters through mediation, arbitration, or trial. Never adopting a one-size fits all approach, our attorneys listen and prudently assess client goals to carefully create an appropriate and efficient strategy.

Our attorneys handle matters that include:

• Estate and trust litigation
• Will contests
• Trust disputes
• Charitable transfer disputes
• Guardianships
• Lifetime transfers
• Fiduciary accountings
• Financial elder abuse
• Burial disputes
• Alternative dispute resolution

We represent a broad spectrum of clients from institutions—banks, corporate fiduciaries, universities, investment companies—to individuals, including, but not limited to, the beneficiaries of estates and trusts, executors, administrators, trustees, surviving spouses, guardians, and incapacitated persons. The attorneys in our group are regularly appointed by probate judges as counsel and guardians, serve as mediators, and publish and lecture on the local and national levels for private firms, bar associations, and a wide array of entities such as ACTEC, the Heckerling Institute, New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, American Law Institute, and the American Bar Association.

Through the breadth of Archer’s legal services, our estate and trust litigators are also able to draw upon the firm’s vast network of resources, including the experience of the firm's estate attorneys and estate administrators, as well as lawyers in Archer's real estate practice and corporate practice.