20 Best Nashville Probate Attorneys

Dodson, Parker, Behm, and Capparella PC is a Nashville-based law firm that has provided legal representation since 1988. The firm assists executors and personal representatives with the probate process from start to finish. Attorneys handle simple and complex estates. The firm also handles related issues, including wills, trusts, and powers of attorney. Attorney Paul Parker lectures on the topics of probate and trusts for the National Business Institute and served as treasurer for the Nashville Bar Association.

Founded in the early 1950s, Farris Bobango is a law firm with offices in Nashville and Memphis, serving clients locally, regionally, and across the United States. Its wide range of practice areas include wills, trusts, and probate. The firm's attorneys assist personal representatives and others through the probate process, as well as the non-probate transfer of the decedent's assets. Its services include identifying and collecting the full estate, preparing tax returns, and validating the claims of creditors.

Fidelis Law PLLC serves the Nashville metro area from its Brentwood offices, representing clients in business and family law, personal injury, estate planning, and probate. Founded in 2009, the firm's attorneys apply its Christian values and ethics to everything they do, such as assisting executors and beneficiaries through the emotional journey of probating a loved one's will. It shoulders the burden of the practical aspects of collecting an estate, validating creditor claims, and ensuring the decedent's will is honored.

Gullett, Sanford, Robinson & Martin PLLC is a law firm serving clients throughout the Nashville metro area. Founded in 1942, it handles probate court matters, including guiding family members and other interested parties through trust, estate, and conservatorship administration. The firm's attorneys counsel clients about the distribution of assets, business succession, guardianships, and handle disputes between administrators, executors, trustees, conservators, guardians, beneficiaries, and claimants. Other practice areas include real estate, tax, and labor and employment.

Lackey & Lackey PLLC is a family-owned and operated law firm serving clients in the greater Nashville metro area. It offers complete probate administration services. Attorneys guide personal representatives and executors through each stage of the probate process, including identification of assets, settlement of debts, and distribution of property. The firm also offers estate planning services with the goal of avoiding probate. Additionally, Lackey & Lackey take on business and family law, real estate, and personal injury cases.

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP is a law firm in Nashville with 13 other offices in the United States and branches in London and Asia. It offers a broad range of legal services, including counsel and representation in matters involving probate, estates, trusts, and tax planning. The team advises individuals, families, family-owned businesses, and charitable foundations in the planning and administration of complex trusts and estates, and in the U.S. and international estate, trust and tax planning.

Founded in 2015, the law firm of Surber, Asher, Surber & Moushon PLLC serves clients throughout the metro area of its Nashville offices in a wide range of practice areas, including probate law. The firm's attorneys are experienced in providing compassionate assistance to executors and family members during the often emotional process of probating a loved one's will. Attorney Jennifer Surber spent 10 years as counsel to the Probate Court for Nashville and Davidson County.

Since 2010, The Blair Law Firm has offered legal services to clients in the greater Nashville area. Attorney Rebecca Blair assists executors with all aspects of the probate process, including identification of assets, settlement of debts, and distribution of properties. She works directly with clients to determine if probate is avoidable. Additionally, she handles estate planning, guardianships, conservatorships, trusts, and wills. Attorney Blair maintains an AV rating with Martindale-Hubbell and is a member of the Tennessee and Nashville Bar Associations.

Weatherly, McNally, & Dixon PLC is a Nashville-based law firm that has provided legal services since 2010. Attorney Jacquelin Dixon assists personal representatives with probates involving wills, estates, and conservatorships. She helps clients with each stage of the probate process, including identifying assets and settling debts. Attorney Dixon has served as president of the Nashville and Tennessee Bar Associations and maintains an AV rating with Martindale-Hubbell. The firm also handles estate planning, criminal defense, family law, and personal injury cases.

Nashville-based Wyatt, Tarrant, & Combs LLP provides legal services to family members, administrators, and executors involved in probate actions. The firm handles all matters related to probate procedure and administration, including making timely court filings, paying estate creditors, and handling litigation related to fiduciary challenges. Wyatt, Tarrant, & Combs has additional offices in Kentucky and Indiana and offers a full range of legal services, including estate planning to minimize after-death tax obligations.