After a loss, the legal side shouldn’t feel like another burden.
We help Louisiana families navigate succession with clarity, care, and closure — so you can focus on the people you love.
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Estate law that meets Louisiana families where they are.
Whether you’re planning ahead, settling an estate after a loss, fighting for what’s rightfully yours, or recovering from a loss that shouldn’t have happened — our team handles it.
Succession & Probate Services
When you’re navigating loss, the last thing you need is legal confusion.
We handle Louisiana successions start to finish — with or without a will, cooperative heirs or family conflict — so bank accounts, property, and assets get where they belong, the first time.
Learn more →Estate Planning Services
The planning you do now is the gift you leave behind.
Louisiana has unique rules — forced heirship, usufructs, community property. We build wills, trusts, and directives that actually work here, so your family isn’t left sorting through ambiguity.
Learn more →Estate Litigation Representation
As if the loss itself wasn’t enough — now you’re in conflict with family.
When your rights as an heir have been violated, when an administrator is making bad decisions, or when your own actions are being challenged — we fight for the outcome you deserve. Negotiated, mediated, or tried in court.
Learn more →Wrongful Death Representation
When the loss wasn’t natural — it was caused by someone else.
Most families end up hiring two firms: one for the wrongful-death claim, another for the succession. We handle both — pursuing accountability against the at-fault party while settling the estate, so the recovery reaches the right heirs.
Learn more →We’re here. You’re there. But we help everywhere.
Location is not a limitation- $100M+ Estate assets transferred to heirs
- 2,000+ Louisiana families helped
- 20+ yrs Practicing Louisiana estate law
- Every parish Served across Louisiana
We love helping our clients, but don’t just take our word for it.
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“The best law firm, hands down.”
“Your professionalism and care meant so much.”
“Professional, excellent — kept me updated the whole way.”
“Your firm was a blessing for me.”
“Made a stressful process easy, even from out of state.”
“Professional and knowledgeable. Answered all my questions quickly.”
“Impressed with the knowledge and professionalism at Scott Law Group.”
“A friendly ear during my emotional and confusing times.”
“So helpful explaining everything when we lost a family member.”
“Excellent, clear guidance. Responded promptly. Put us at ease.”
“Made me feel confident my case will be handled appropriately.”
We’re not just attorneys who do successions.
We’re Succession Attorneys.
There are plenty of attorneys who say they do “successions.” Look closely though and you’ll see they also handle divorce, personal injury, criminal defense, and any other work that walks in the door. Louisiana estate law is complex, and mistakes can be quite costly. The bigger problem is that estate mistakes often aren’t discovered until many years later — like when trying to sell a house that was inherited, only to find out there are title problems from the succession. Many families end up paying legal fees twice to fix those mistakes. We know. We often get calls to fix messes created by other attorneys.
Let our experience bring you the closure you need.
Most of the time when people reach out to us, they are not having their best day. They are calling because someone has died, or someone might, or something has gone wrong — and they want to get to the other side of it with their family intact and their life back.
For many Louisiana families, grieving can’t really begin to end until the estate does. That’s what we deliver. The legal middle is our problem. Your end of it is closure — estate complete, assets transferred, plan in place, questions answered. After handling thousands of Louisiana estates, there’s very little we haven’t seen, so whatever you’re facing, odds are we’ve already solved it before.
- Clarity you won’t have to translate. No legalese, no guessing what just got said.
- A game plan to the finish line. Efficient, cost-conscious, and built around your case.
- A team that’s seen it before. Thousands of Louisiana estates deep.
- A price you’ll know upfront. Flat-fee options for most succession and planning work.
The one decision that really matters.
The #1 mistake families make when dealing with an estate? Hiring an attorney who “does successions”…and everything else, instead of hiring a Succession Attorney. Starting down the wrong path costs time, money, and sometimes the outcome itself. Starting down the right one — that’s where experience counts.
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Stop Googling.
Call us, or send a few sentences about what you’re facing. That’s all we need to start.
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A plan, not guesses.
Within one business day, a member of our team reviews your situation and comes prepared with actual next steps.
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Clarity on what comes next.
We lay out your options — what’s possible, what it’ll take, what it’ll cost. Free, confidential, no pressure.
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Get back to your life.
If we’re a fit, we take over the paperwork, court, and communication. You focus on your family.
Answers to the questions we hear most.
Plain-English explanations of Louisiana succession, probate, and estate law — free to read, nothing to sign up for.
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