Jeffrey Skatoff, Florida Probate Attorney

Jeffrey Skatoff has been an attorney since 1991, practicing in the areas of probate litigation, trust litigation, guardianship litigation, and other types of inheritance litigation.  Mr. Skatoff also handles appeals of probate, guardianship, trust, and inheritance disputes.  Mr. Skatoff also works on the probate aspects of wrongful death litigation in Florida. 

Mr. Skatoff takes cases throughout the State of Florida, and has handled cases in over one-half of Florida’s 67 counties,including Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Martin, Collier, Orange, Hillsborough, St. Lucie, and Indian River.  

Mr. Skatoff has built his reputation on personal service, experience, and genuine dedication to providing creative and innovative approaches to complex legal issues and estate planning and trust planning.  

Mr. Skatoff has been AV Preeminent rated by Martindale-Hubbell for over 15 years.  He is a former United State Department of Justice trial attorney who litigated complex disputes on behalf of the Federal Government and was awarded the Outstanding Attorney Award during his tenure.  Mr. Skatoff has been involved in some of the largest probate litigation disputes in Florida, and has handled complex international inheritance and estate disputes.  Mr. Skatoff has been a regular commentator with local and national media outlets, such as CNN, the Wall Street Journal and Kiplinger’s, on issues of estate planning, will contests, estate litigation, probate, and power of attorney abuse.  Mr. Skatoff also handles international inheritance issues.