Fiduciary Litigation
Overview
Nutter’s Fiduciary Litigation practice group is trusted by individuals, families, and professional fiduciaries to resolve their most sensitive and high-stakes trusts and estates disputes. With extensive experience in will and trust contests, fiduciary breach claims, guardianship matters, and complex multigenerational asset disputes, our team brings a strategic and compassionate approach—blending skilled litigation with creative, out-of-court solutions. Clients rely on our discretion, responsiveness, and ability to manage both the legal and personal complexities of these often once-in-a-lifetime matters. Backed by Nutter’s nationally respected private client practice and a deep bench of experienced litigators, we tailor strategies to meet each client’s goals and consistently deliver cost-effective, lasting results in and out of the courtroom.
Areas of Focus:
- Will contests
- Trust disputes
- Capacity and undue influence issues
- Breach of fiduciary duty claims
- Probate litigation
- Trustee removal petitions
- Complaints for instructions
- Nonprofit advocacy
- Probate accountings
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Experience
- Dispute on the allocation of trust assets
Nutter represented trust beneficiaries in a dispute concerning the allocation of trust assets under a trust containing an in terrorem clause. Nutter successfully negotiated a favorable settlement on behalf of the trust beneficiaries following litigation.
- Litigation on tax allocation provision in a will
Nutter represented a personal representative of an estate in litigation concerning the proper interpretation of a tax allocation provision in a will.
