Mark Swirbalus

Mark is a probate litigator who focuses his practice on high-stakes trust and estate (“T&E”) disputes and fiduciary litigation. Mark represents individuals, families, charitable organizations, and bank and trust companies as beneficiaries, trustees, executors, administrators, and personal representatives.

He handles a broad range of T&E-related disputes, including:

• trust and will contests involving allegations of undue influence, incompetency, and fraud;
• breach of fiduciary duty and removal actions;
• contested accountings;
• trust reformation, modification, and interpretation actions;
• irrevocable life insurance trust (ILIT) matters;
• trust and estate property disputes;
• family limited partnership (FLP) disputes;
• trust-held limited liability company (LLC) disputes; and
• reasonable deviation and cy pres matters.

Clients look to Mark not only to guide them to successful resolution of their ‘once in a lifetime’ legal matters through settlement or trial, but also to help them avoid litigation in the first place.