Trust and estate litigation involves complex legal issues, including fiduciary duties, tax law, real estate, family businesses, bankruptcy, and creditor rights. Therefore, clients need have a team of trust and estate litigators who have the innovation, dedication, and knowledge to effectively resolve the most complex of trust and estate contests. The attorneys at Woods, Weidenmiller, Michetti & Rudnick have the appropriate experience to ensure you receive the highest quality legal services to effect the best possible outcome.
The firm’s attorneys handle complex will and trust disputes for a broad range of clients throughout Naples, Bonita Springs / Estero and Fort Myers. We have experience representing individual and institutional trustees, executors, personal representatives, and beneficiaries of trusts and estates. Our attorneys have successfully litigated claims involving:
- Breach of fiduciary duty for or against fiduciaries and their agents
- Removal of fiduciaries
- Will and trust interpretation, construction and reformation
- Charitable gifts
- The prudent investor rule
- Attorney and fiduciary fee disputes
- Disputed claims for and against estates and trusts
- Lack of mental capacity
- Fraud, duress and undue influence
- Spousal rights and elective share proceedings
- Determination of, and challenges to, heirship
- Will contests
- Issues related to trust or probate administration