NY Estate Lawyers
Jason W. Stern
And Associates
Estate litigation
Will contests, kinship, and probate for New York and New Jersey. The consultation is free. Contingency, when the case should not be hourly.
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New York estate lawyers — Jason W. Stern & Associates
Jason W. Stern
A famously hard litigator, and an accessible one. His clients can reach him. The other side meets him in a New York will contest, on an instrument the office believes was fraudulently procured, or on behalf of a non-marital child a relative tried to write out. He does not soften that fight, and he does not make the client chase him for an answer.
Matthew Hunter
A kinship heir usually finds him after a letter, or after years of not knowing an estate existed. For more than thirty years he has rebuilt those New York family trees, including families of people who perished in the Holocaust, and kept those estates from passing to the State. He has patience for a cousin who has never seen Surrogate’s Court. He has none for an accounting that never comes.
Elite litigation means less time in court
Together they have recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for their clients. The fight is how the client gets paid. The office is in Forest Hills, licensed in New York and New Jersey.
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Jason Stern on why a New York estate, and a challenge to one, should not be handled alone. Wills, probate, and the fight over them.
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The file is not a theory. It is a parent isolated from the family, a cousin the court could not find, a will that appeared after the hospital. We carry that into the room. Their life is the case.
- ★★★★★
October 2023·Google
I am so thankful to have found Jason Stern and his partner Matt Hunter. They took my case when our family member died and we realized we were not receiving our inheritance. Jason found a very elaborate scheme to defraud the estate and a well hidden money trail leading to my cousin's bank account. These NY estate attorneys got us justice and our inheritance.
- ★★★★★
April 2018·Avvo
A colleague highly recommended Jason Stern and I hired him to contest a family will. I was left out of a modified will, which was unexpected and emotional. Jason and his partner worked diligently to obtain the evidence needed to invalidate the fraudulent will, and he worked to prevent it from being probated. He helped me obtain justice and win my case.
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NY Estate Law Blog
The confidential relationship and self-dealing: Estate of MeansA confidential relationship plus a late change in the will is one of the fact patterns this office sees most often.Read full NY estate law blog postNew York estate litigation
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A will signed in the hospital.
A New York will contest begins when a parent was isolated and a later will appeared. Lack of capacity, undue influence, and fraud are the grounds tried in Surrogate’s Court, including an instrument an attorney drafted and a witness signed. The firm takes many of these estate litigation files on contingency.
Will contests in New York01Last willI give allof my propertyto my childrenForest Hills · Austin Street
02Later willI revoke the lastI give allto my caregiverSigned at the hospital
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Our NY estate lawyers provide a free contingency consultation
Estate litigation in New York is emotionally draining, and it is expensive. The office takes cases on a contingency basis so a client is not priced out of the same representation. No estate firm in New York has consistently achieved a better track record.
The lawyers know each of the Surrogate’s Courts of the State of New York, and the probate procedure that court actually uses. The consultation is free.
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