Ian W. MacLean

We provide strong advocacy, thoughtful counsel, and strategic representation.The MacLean Law Firm, P.C. is a trusts, estates, and fiduciary litigation and administration boutique. We represent beneficiaries, fiduciaries, creditors, and other persons interested in all Surrogate's Court matters and related Supreme Court matters in New York State. We advocate strongly for our clients to enforce their rights, protect their interests, and ensure that fiduciary duties and obligations are fulfilled. We represent beneficiaries and fiduciaries involved in contested and uncontested probate (will contests), trust disputes, accountings, discovery and turnover proceedings, kinship, administration, and a host of other miscellaneous proceedings. We counsel and assist trustees and executors in administering trusts and estates, accounting, tax compliance, estate and gift tax audits and controversies, and otherwise fulfilling their fiduciary duties. We help beneficiaries of wills and trusts protect their interests, receive their inheritances, and enforce their rights.  And we counsel fiduciaries and beneficiaries in uncontested matters to help facilitate a smooth, efficient and complete probate, estate and trust administration, and fiduciary accounting. When appropriate to our clients's goals and interests, we provide effective negotiation to help our clients reach conflict resolution through settlement.Attorneys here also help clients with estate planning and asset protection, focusing on strategies intended to minimize or prevent the family fight before it starts and realize clients's goals in the framework of the client's values and within the client's complexity threshold. Designing, implementing and maintaining estate and asset protection plans here is client-values based and client-goals oriented. We believe in making the law transparent, in building relationships, and in providing peace of mind.If you would like our help and guidance with a contested matter, probating a will, administering an estate or trust, fulfilling your responsibilities as an executor or trustee, contesting or defending a will, trust, or accounting, enforcing your rights as a beneficiary, bringing or defeating a guardianship matter or implementing and maintaining a plan that will realize your goals, minimize your concerns, and provide peace of mind, please contact us.Notice: Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. The choice of attorneys is an important decision that should not be based upon mere advertisements or website information. The information in this website is provided for informational purposes only and should not be construed as formal legal advice. We are happy to provide you with further information upon request. No inquiry to us or response or failure to respond by us through this website or by email shall create any duty, obligation, attorney-client or advisory relationship. Attorney-Client relationships are formed after meeting with you, after we have determined that there will be no conflict of interest in our representing or advising you, and after the execution by a prospective client and ourselves of a written engagement letter, in compliance with the Rules and Regulations of the Courts of the States of New York.