Capabilities / Trust, Estate, & Fiduciary Litigation
For Husch Blackwell, it's a matter of trust.
Our Trust, Estate, & Fiduciary Litigation team combines deep legal knowledge with decades of litigation experience to resolve high-stakes trust, estate, and fiduciary duty matters through mediation, arbitration, or trial.
Husch Blackwell’s trust, estate, and fiduciary litigation attorneys counsel clients on best practices for administering trusts and estates to minimize risk, avoid litigation, and effectively settle disputes without court intervention. But when estate and fiduciary litigation is unavoidable, our attorneys are zealous advocates for the banks, trust companies, trustees, executors, personal representatives, beneficiaries, heirs, creditors, and tax-exempt organizations that we represent.
Our guidance to clients in the sector of trusts, estates, and fiduciary litigation includes:
- Beneficiaries’ rights
- Best practices
- Breach of fiduciary duty claims
- Construction and reformation of estate planning documents
- Creditors’ rights
- Identification and recovery of trust and estate assets
- Income, estate, gift, and generation-skipping tax issues
- Marital property rights
- Will and trust contests
- Guardianships