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Gerald I. Carp, a founding partner of MC&R and chair of the firm’s Estates and Trusts practice, is widely recognized as an expert in complex estate-related litigation for individuals and businesses, wealth protection/preservation, and estate and trust administration. He has lectured and published widely on these topics.

Mr. Carp is regularly called upon to litigate the validity of Wills; the rights of survivors to jointly held assets and insurance proceeds; and disputes among executors, trustees and beneficiaries. He also helps clients resolve disputes involving accountings of executors and trustees and closely held businesses.

Mr. Carp is a member and has served as co-chair of the Estates, Trusts and Surrogate’s Court Practice Committee of the New York County Lawyers Association. He now serves on a special State Bar committee to research and report on attorney-fiduciary compensation and to oversee the office of the Public Administrators. He has also served on the New York State Office of Court Administration Surrogate’s Court Advisory Committee and, in Surrogate’s Court proceedings, has fulfilled numerous judicial appointments as guardian or attorney for persons under disability.

A peer-elected Fellow of the American College of Trust & Estate Counsel, Mr. Carp is an active member of committees on fiduciary litigation and business planning. He is a former member of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the New York County Lawyers’ Association and has long been active in numerous committees of the estate, trust and tax sections of the New York State Bar Association and the American Bar Association.

Mr. Carp is admitted to practice before the state courts of New York, Florida and New Jersey as well as the U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Tax Court. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Pennsylvania State University and a J.D. from Buffalo Law School.