Estate & Trust Litigation Law Blog

Kelly M. Barry

Kelly focuses her practice in the area of estate planning and estate administration. She represents clients in all aspects of estate, trust, and related tax matters, including planning for both simple and complex estates, and probate litigation. Kelly assists clients with drafting Last Wills and Testaments, revocable and irrevocable trusts, Durable Powers of Attorney, Living Wills and Advance Healthcare Directives. She also assists clients with gifting and transfers of family assets and closely-held businesses. In the area of estate administration, Kelly represents clients in all aspects of probate matters, including intestacy proceedings, probate of Wills, marshaling and inventorying estate assets, preparation and filing of federal and state death tax returns, preparation of formal and informal estate accountings, and the final distribution of estate assets to the beneficiaries and heirs of the estate. She also assists clients with post-mortem estate planning opportunities.

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Estate & Trust litigation department

Litigation focused on estates and trusts is a rapidly growing area. Each lawyer practicing in the Estate & Trust Litigation Group at Archer concentrates on litigation involving probate matters, estates, trusts, fiduciaries, and guardianships.

Our estate and trust litigation attorneys have represented both institutions and individuals. These institutions include banks, corporate fiduciaries, and investment companies. The individuals include the beneficiaries of estates and trusts, executors, administrators, trustees, surviving spouses, guardians, and incapacitated persons. One of the benefits of our estate litigators is that they work closely with and are supported by the expertise of the Estate Department attorneys and estate administrators in tax and estate administration.

Among our multi-disciplinary services are:

Attorney advice on the administration of estate and trust matters
Litigation on the interpretation of Wills, trusts, and beneficiary designations
Representation in basic Will contests, as well as complex Will contests receiving local, regional, and national media coverage
Evaluation and litigation of undue influence and incapacity issues
Assistance to executors and trustees on preventing and handling disputes
Preparation and presentment of fiduciary accountings
Assessment of claims by beneficiaries of estates and trusts
Counsel on investment decisions by executors and trustees
Counsel on the challenge to or defense of lifetime transfers, gifts, joint accounts, jointly owned property, and beneficiary designations
Formation and implementation of administrative policies by fiduciaries
Acceptance of appointments by probate judges as counsel and guardians
Recovery of costs and counsel fees from estates and trusts
Service as mediators certified by the New Jersey Supreme Court
Publishing and lecturing on the local and national levels for private firms as well as for the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, the American Law Institute and the American Bar Association.

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