Probate Attorney Services

Our probate attorneys provide estate and probate-related legal counsel to clients from across the United States. We focus on uncontested probate matters throughout South/Central Mississippi, South Alabama, and the entire State of Florida. Our probate attorneys make it their business to thoroughly understand the probate process and to guide you through it as quickly and cost-efficiently as possible. Our probate attorney can help you:

• We offer a free telephone consultation with a probate attorney to help you explore the alternatives to probate. These alternatives may include a small estate affidavit, muniment of title, affidavits of heirship, or some other mechanism to avoid probate.
• If probate is necessary, our probate attorney can help you choose the probate process that fits your specific situation and goals. Choices may include formal administration, summary probate administration, ancillary probate, or intestate succession.
• Once decisions have been reached, a probate attorney will represent you in the probate process, including helping you obtain Letters Testamentary or Letters of Administration (open the estate) and otherwise guiding you through the Mississippi, Alabama, or Florida probate proceeding. Our attorneys will prepare the appropriate documents and represent you before the court, usually without the need for you to appear in court or otherwise travel from out-of-state.

Contact us today to speak to a probate attorney about your Alabama, Florida, or Mississippi probate needs.

Note: We routinely work with out-of-state clients to settle Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida estates. Except in very rare circumstances, there is no need for you to appear in person in court or otherwise travel to Mississippi, Alabama, or Florida from out-of-state. For more information, see our Mississippi Probate FAQ, Alabama Probate FAQ, or Florida Probate FAQ.

Do You Need a Probate Attorney?

To the uninitiated, the probate process can be confusing. It involves technical language—terminology like executor/executrix, personal representative, testate, intestate, letters testamentary, heirship, fiduciary. In most cases, a probate court supervises every step of the probate process, requiring filings with the court, periodic reporting, accounting, and various notifications. Probate can also be time-intensive, often taking several months, and sometimes up to several years, to complete.

The good news is that much of the work involved in probate is legal paperwork that is prepared by the probate attorney that represents the estate. A good probate attorney can help guide you through probate, advising you of your legal responsibilities and walking you through the probate process.

In fact, because of the practical necessity of having a probate attorney involved in most estates, many states require that a probate attorney represent the estate in the probate process. For example, Mississippi’s chancery court rules require each Mississippi estate to be represented in court by a Mississippi probate attorney. Florida law requires almost all estates with property in Florida to be represented by a Florida probate attorney. Even for states like Alabama that don’t formally require a probate attorney to be involved, an Alabama probate attorney is usually required as a practical matter due to the complicated rules involved.

So do you need a probate attorney? If you have a friend or relative that died owning assets in Mississippi, Alabama, or Florida and you are seeking to open a probate proceeding, chances are that the answer is “yes.” In most situations, probate is simply not a “do-it-yourself” activity. Contact us today for a free phone consultation to discuss your Mississippi, Alabama, or Florida probate questions.

Note: Interested in what an Alabama, Florida, or Mississippi probate proceeding will cost? Visit our pricing page to find out more about our pricing structure.