The Law Office of Elliot S. Schlissel provides comprehensive wills, trusts, estates, elder care planning and probate services. We have extensive experience in handling the administration of estates when a family member dies. We undertake all necessary legal action on probate proceedings, estate tax proceedings and estate accountings. We aggressively represent clients in contesting wills and administration proceedings. We have more than 31 years of experience in litigating all aspects of probate and estate matters. Our experienced litigation attorneys can make sure that your rights are represented and you are protected in Surrogates Court.

Special Consideration for Senior Citizens.

Our office has five full time attorneys. We also have staff of paralegals, investigators and accountants who assist us in dealing with the various issues that are presented in wills, trusts, estates and elder care matters.

English and Spanish

Nassau County and Queens County. We also assist our clients with appointments in Kings County and New York County.

For more than 31 years our office has been handling, wills, trusts and estates in the Metropolitan/New York area. Our founding partner, Elliot S. Schlissel, has practiced law for more than 31 years and guides all of our dedicated and experienced legal professionals in his tradition of skilled representation and outstanding client service. Our attorneys are very involved in the community as members and active participants in legal and non legal capacities. We are members of local Bar Associations and Chambers of Commerce.

At the Law Office of Elliot S. Schlissel our unfailing dedication to our community, the legal community and our clients give us a winning advantage every time!

Estate Planning
Wills, Trusts, Probate

Elliot S. Schlissel earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the State University of New York at Oswego in 1972. Thereafter, he attended both Hofstra Law School and the State University of New York Law School at Buffalo, where he graduated with a Juris Doctor degree in 1975. He also studied international protection of human rights at the Counsel of Europe in Strasbourg, France.

Mr. Schlissel is admitted to practice law in the State of New York, before the federal courts of the Eastern District of New York, the Southern District if New York and the United States Supreme Court.

Mr. Schlissel is listed in the Marquis’ Who’s Who of American Law. He has received the highest rating from Martindale-Hubbell Attorney’s Law Directory. He has acted as the president of the Commercial Lawyers Conference of New York, a regional bar association. He has been a member of the Wills, Trusts and Estates committees of the New York Bar Association, the Nassau County Bar Association, the Queens County Bar Association, the Kings County Bar Association and the Suffolk County Bar Association.

Areas of Practice

• Wills
• Probate Proceedings
• Estate Litigation
• Estate Administration
• Testamentary Trusts
• Special Needs Trusts
• Revocable and Irrevocable Trusts
• Powers of Attorney
• Living Wills
• Health Care Proxies
• Representation of Executors and Administrators
• Litigation of Contested Estate Matters
• Infant Proceedings
• Probate Proceedings
• Elder care
• Guardianships
• Business Succession Planning