The Cifelli Law Firm represents clients in family business disputes and estate litigation throughout New Jersey.
Disputes involving family-owned businesses and estates can become especially difficult because financial interests, ownership rights, fiduciary responsibilities and family relationships often overlap.
These matters can affect the operation of a business, the administration of an estate, the rights of beneficiaries, and the distribution or control of significant assets.
Family Business and Estate Disputes Can Involve:
- Conflicts among family members who own or manage a business
- Shareholder, partner or LLC member disputes within a family-owned company
- Management and control disputes
- Disagreements involving ownership interests
- Breach of fiduciary duty
- Buyout or separation disputes
- Disputes involving wills or estate documents
- Will contests
- Questions involving undue influence or capacity
- Disputes among beneficiaries
- Executor or administrator disputes
- Trustee and other fiduciary disputes
- Estate administration disagreements
- Accounting and distribution disputes
- Contested probate matters
New Jersey law gives the Superior Court broad authority to resolve controversies involving wills, trusts and estates, and fiduciaries are subject to duties and responsibilities in administering estate and trust matters.
How the Cifelli Law Firm Can Help
The Cifelli Law Firm assists individuals, business owners, beneficiaries, executors, administrators, trustees and other interested parties in resolving disputes involving family businesses and estates.
Representation may include:
- Reviewing governing business, estate and trust documents
- Evaluating ownership, beneficiary and fiduciary rights
- Addressing disputes involving control, management or financial interests
- Representing beneficiaries in contested estate matters
- Representing fiduciaries facing claims or disputes
- Addressing questions concerning the validity or administration of wills and estates
- Negotiating resolutions among interested parties
- Pursuing or defending claims involving improper conduct
- Representing clients in probate and other related litigation when necessary
New Jersey probate law continues to develop through both statute and court decisions, including recent appellate decisions addressing disputes over testamentary instruments and the courts’ role in resolving will controversies.
The goal is to protect the client’s legal and financial interests while addressing the dispute as effectively as the circumstances allow.