Probate, Wills, Estate, and Trust Litigation
Protect Your Family’s Estate
We understand that no one really wants to be in litigation. But when it is necessary, the team at BoyarMiller is there – standing by clients and reassuring them through probate litigation on a path toward resolution.
Estate trustees, administrators and executors throughout the greater Houston area can count on our probate attorneys to guide them through the complexities of the court process with a strategic plan and ongoing honest communications – so the next steps are clearly defined.
Probate Practice Areas
With deep experience, sharp legal skills and abiding care, our team represents clients in the following practice areas:
- Probate, Wills, Estate and Trust Litigation
- Estate Administration
- Estate Planning
- Commercial and Civil Litigation in state and federal courts
Probate Litigation Support
Our trial attorneys have deep experience in working with clients to resolve their probate issues and guide them through the litigation process. Here are some of the situations in which you should consider the services of a probate litigation attorney.
- The deceased individual’s assets are not eligible for transfer outside of probate. Some estates are set up for simple execution through the use of trusts, joint tenancy, or rights of survivorship. Similarly, retirement accounts and life insurance policy proceeds are transferable outside of probate because beneficiaries are named.
- The estate does not fit into “small estate” procedures. Texas has a “summary probate” system in which small estates are executed through simpler processes.
- Family members intend to dispute the will and contest it in probate court.
- Surviving relatives and creditors can contest a will, or raise issues that may arise upon a person’s passing. These can be related to disinheritance, or simply that heirs do not receive full inheritance.
Attorneys
Our probate attorneys have extensive probate litigation experience and are dedicated to helping clients resolve their estate and probate issues.
- Jill Young is a litigator with more than two decades of experience representing clients in commercial and civil litigations matters, as well as probate and estate litigation.
- Christopher Burt combines creative thinking with problem-solving skills to represent trustees, administrators, executors, beneficiaries, and businesses.