Trust and Estate Litigation

Sacks Tierney helps preserve the rightful claims of interested parties in will and trust contests, inheritance disputes, probate and trust administration, and other estate controversies.

Through litigation and negotiation, Sharon Moyer helps resolve trust, estate, probate, guardianship and conservatorship controversies and other family disputes on behalf of trustees, personal representatives, guardians, conservators, heirs, beneficiaries, disinherited persons, vulnerable persons and other parties who have an interest in a contested trust or estate.

Sharon Moyer’s expertise in this area is rooted in her legal background in estate planning and trust and probate administration.

Her services related to estate controversy include matters involving:

• contests of wills and trust agreements;

• will authenticity;

• persons who died without a will (“intestate”);

• contested asset ownership;

• allegations of breach of fiduciary duty by trustees, successor trustees, guardians, conservators and personal representatives;

• preventing financial exploitation of children and of elderly and incapacitated adults; and

• trust, probate and intestate administration.

Sharon Moyer also represents parties in controversies stemming from alleged statutory violations of the Uniform Probate Code, Arizona Trust Code, Arizona Rules of Probate Procedure, Uniform Trustees Powers Act, Uniform Prudent Investor Act, Uniform Principal and Income Act and other laws governing trusts, wills and fiduciary responsibilities.