Trusts & Estates
Trusts & Estates
LPHS represents clients in will contests, actions to remove trustees, applications for receivers, suits to compel distributions and breach of fiduciary litigation. We represent executors, heirs, trustees and beneficiaries. Because we have been on all sides of these cases, we are well-positioned to plan an effective litigation strategy that anticipates our opponent’s course of action.
- LPHS currently represents an executor and surviving spouse in litigation about the acts of a now-deceased trustee, in which the plaintiffs claim that over $20 million in assets were mishandled over more than a decade ago.
- Convinced the Texas Supreme Court to deny review of a fundamental probate-law question about the effect of a partial acceptance of benefits under a will. In re: Harvey, No. 18-0153 (Tex. 2018).
- We represented Al Hill Jr. against his son’s claims of a conspiracy to deprive the son of his inheritance. The litigation involved 16 different cases and was one of the largest trust and estate matters ever litigated in Texas. After almost three years of litigation, the matter settled on terms favorable to Al Hill Jr.
- We represented Ryan Rogers, who acted on his father’s behalf as co-trustee, in a breach of fiduciary duty case. A trust beneficiary claimed her uncle breached his fiduciary duty as trustee by participating in a leveraged buyout of Mary Kay Cosmetics Inc.