Overview
Cohen and Wolf’s Trusts & Estates Group represents private individuals in the areas of estate and tax planning; estate and tax administration; trust formation and administration; charitable gift and foundation planning and administration; business succession planning; conservatorships; and guardianships.
The Group has extensive experience advising clients on elder law issues. Attorneys in the Group regularly help clients to cope with aging family members by preparing living trusts, powers of attorney, and living wills, and to safeguard assets while planning for long-term care. The Group also assists persons with disabilities in the transfer and management of assets.
The attorneys in the Trusts & Estates Group draw upon the skills and experience of the firm’s Probate Litigation Group to handle various kinds of probate litigation, including will contests, removal of fiduciaries, and will and trust construction and reformation proceedings. The Group also collaborates on client matters with members of the firm’s Tax, Business & Corporate, and Real Estate Groups, as needed.
Professionals
- Principal
- Principal
- Of Counsel
- Principal
- Associate
- Associate
- Associate
- Principal
- Associate
- Principal
Newsroom
News
- 04.29.2025
- 01.06.2025
- 11.18.2024
- 11.07.2024
- 10.04.2024
- 07.26.2024
- 04.16.2024
- 01.09.2024
- 11.03.2022
- 03.24.2022
- 03.14.2022
- 02.22.2022
- 11.04.2021
- U.S. News - Best Lawyers® "Best Law Firms, 11.05.2020
- 10.14.2020
- U.S. News - Best Lawyers, 11.01.2019
- Super Lawyers®, 10.17.2019
- Best Lawyers®, 08.15.2019
- 12.12.2018
- US Best Lawyers®, 11.01.2018
- Super Lawyers®, 10.18.2018
- Best Lawyers®, 08.15.2018
- Benchmark Litigation and Fairfield County Business Journal, 07.02.2018
- Bridgeport Downtown Special Services District, 07.01.2018
- 11.01.2017
- 10.17.2017
- The Best Lawyers in America©, 08.15.2017
- Super Lawyers®, 10.18.2016
- The Best Lawyers in America© 2017, 08.15.2016
- Super Lawyers®, 10.22.2015
- Best Lawyers®, 08.17.2015
- U.S. News & World Report, 11.06.2014
- Super Lawyers®, 10.17.2014
- The Best Lawyers in America©, 08.18.2014
- 11.01.2013
- Connecticut Super Lawyers, 10.21.2013
- Best Lawyers, 08.15.2013
- 03.21.2013
- Connecticut Super Lawyers, 11.05.2012
- Best Lawyers, 08.23.2012
- 10.24.2011
Events
- Norwalk Hospital, McGraw Center for Advanced Learning, 09.16.2025
- Webinar, 09.09.2025
- Webinar, 06.05.2025
- 03.25.2025
- HOSTED BY: HAYVN - 320 Boston Post Road, Suite 180, Darien, Connecticut, 01.28.2025
- Mark Twain Library, 439 Redding Road, Redding, CT, 01.21.2025
- Saint Clements Castle, Portland, CT, 10.22.2024
- New Fairfield Senior Center, 10.19.2024
- The Greens at Cannondale, 10.17.2024
- Lapham Community Center, 10.10.2024
- Connecticut Convention Center, 06.10.2024
- 05.09.2024
- 03.19.2024
- Attorney Philip Pires to Present at NBI's "Connecticut Probate Process from Start to Finish" Webinar02.16.2024
- 10.26.2023
- Saint Clements Castle, 1931 Portland-Cobalt Rd., Portland, CT, 10.23.2023
- 05.16.2023
- 03.30.2023
- 02.28.2023
- Legal Issues & Benefit Systems for Younger Families and Individuals, Alzheimer’s Association of CT, Dementia Education Conference04.2021
- Facebook Live, 03.10.2021
- Virtual, 02.16.2021
- Virtual, 01.12.2021
- Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale, 10.15.2019
- The Legal Landscape of Dementia, Alzheimer’s Association of CT, Dementia Education Conference04.10.2019
- Milestones School, 01.17.2019
- The Anatomy of a Medicaid Application, Connecticut Bar Association, Young Lawyers Section05.2018
- Woodbury Senior Center, 07.14.2016
- Norwalk Inn, 06.08.2016
- Philip Pires to present seminar entitled "Representing the Respondent in a Contested Conservatorship Hearing"Middletown, Connecticut, 05.08.2015
Publications
- 06.07.2023
- 06.01.2023
- 03.14.2023
- 03.06.2023
- 02.23.2023
- 11.14.2022
- 09.23.2022
- 02.15.2022
- 11.05.2021
- 11.16.2015
- 11.16.2015
- I Want “YOU” to Have “MY” Heart: How Using a Will May Better Protect a Donor’s Intent in Insuring Successful Directed Donation of Organs28 Quinnipiac Probate Law Journal 304, 2015
- ALI CLE Estate Planning Course Materials Journal, Fall 2013
- 02.16.2011
- 02.16.2011
- 02.16.2011
- Estate Planning Advisory, Fall 2009