When a will is worth fighting
New York families usually arrive after someone close has been cut out, or after a late will appeared once a parent was isolated. The grounds are familiar and still hard to prove: lack of capacity, undue influence, fraud, or a fiduciary who treated the estate as a private account.
The firm has built its name on contests of attorney-drafted wills, not only homemade ones. It describes a record of recovering estate assets for beneficiaries who were written out by dishonest relatives and fiduciaries, and it takes a substantial share of that work on contingency so the case is not reserved for people who can fund years of litigation up front.
Drafting with the courtroom in mind
The same lawyers who try these cases draft wills. A plan written by someone who has watched a contest fail, and succeed, is less likely to hand the next generation a document that collapses under cross-examination.
Other estate firms retain the office when a file has become a fight. That is the work: difficult cases, long ones, and the ones that look closed until someone reads the will again.