Scott-Moncrieff & Company has a wealth of experience in the preparation of wills, trusts and other estate planning tools, as well as the administration of estates and estate dispute resolution.  Our lawyers provide customized and comprehensive estate planning services. 

We work to ensure that your financial, personal and health care needs will be met in the event of physical or mental incapacity.  We help protect your assets and provide for the efficient distribution of those assets in accordance with your wishes.

Our lawyers frequently act as executors or administrators of estates.  If you are the executor of a will or if someone in your family has died without a will, we can assist with estate administration.

We know that disputes involving wills, estates and trusts often involve conflict among family members.  We work to resolve disputes by negotiation and mediation, saving time, money and hurt feelings whenever possible.

Services:

• Estate and incapacity planning
• Powers of attorney
• Representation agreements for health care and personal care
• Wills
• Trusts (lifetime and testamentary)
• Adult guardianship and providing for disabled family members
• Estate freezes and succession planning for business owners
• Joint tenancy of assets
• Tax efficient charitable giving
• Committeeship applications
• Acting as executors or administrators of estates
• Assistance with estate administration
• Obtaining grants of probate or letters of administration
• Interpreting wills
• Questions of capacity
• Challenges to wills
• Dispute resolution