Transparent Fees, No Surprises

Every new client matter starts with a free initial consultation. This is a working meeting — not a sales pitch — where a senior attorney reviews your situation, identifies the legal issues, and tells you what the firm can and cannot do.

You leave the consultation with a clear next step, whether or not you retain Morgan Legal Group.

A document-review consultation is different and is billed: an attorney reads and marks up documents you already have — a will drafted elsewhere, a trust, a proposed settlement — and gives you a written read on them. That session is $450 for 30 minutes and $650 for 60 minutes.

Most estate planning matters are flat-fee: the number is quoted in writing before any work begins and does not move with the hours the file takes.

• Simple Last Will & Testament — $2,000 flat, executed with self-proving affidavit
• Comprehensive Estate Plan (will + POA + health care proxy + living will) — $3,500 flat
• Health Care Proxy and Living Will on their own — $999 flat
• Power of Attorney on its own — $500 to $1,500 flat, depending on gifting modifications, multiple agents and real estate authority
• Revocable Living Trust + pour-over will package — $4,000 to $7,000, includes funding consultation
• Medicaid Asset Protection Trust (MAPT) — $5,000 to $8,000, includes five-year look-back planning
• Deed preparation and recording (transfer into trust, life estate) — $2,500 flat
• Special Needs Trust (1st-party or 3rd-party) — flat fee quoted on the facts, with annual administration option
• Pooled Income Trust enrollment — flat fee quoted on the facts, includes coordination with sponsoring nonprofit

Court work is hourly at $450 to $750 depending on the attorney and the matter, with a written budget at every engagement. The ranges below are what these proceedings have typically come to.

• Probate administration — $5,000 to $20,000: a fixed fee where the estate is uncontested, hourly where it is contested, plus court filing fees scaled to estate size per SCPA § 2402
• Contested probate and will contests — $10,000 to $30,000, hourly with the budget reviewed quarterly
• Article 81 guardianship — hourly: $7,000 to $10,000 uncontested, $10,000 to $30,000 contested, with court evaluator fees and court costs billed separately
• Surrogate accounting proceedings — hourly with budget cap
• Real estate litigation — hourly with retainer

Agreements are flat-fee. Contested court matters are hourly at $450 to $750; the ranges below are what those proceedings have typically come to.

• Prenuptial agreement — $3,500 flat
• Postnuptial agreement — $4,500 flat
• Separation agreement — $4,500 to $7,000 flat, plus expenses
• Uncontested divorce — $4,500 flat, plus expenses
• Contested divorce — hourly, typically $5,000 to $30,000
• Child custody and visitation — hourly, typically $4,000 to $10,000 and up
• Child support under the CSSA — calculation, modification and enforcement — hourly, typically $3,500 to $10,000
• Spousal maintenance under DRL § 236(B)(6) — hourly, typically $5,000 to $15,000

Personal injury cases are handled on contingency: no fee unless we win.

The contingency runs 33% to 40% of any recovery, depending on the stage at which the case resolves, with statutory adjustments where they apply. Court costs and expert witness fees are advanced by the firm and reimbursed from the recovery.

• Major credit cards accepted
• ACH bank transfer for larger retainers
• Payment plans available on estate-planning engagements with prior approval
• IOLTA trust account for retainers per New York Rules of Professional Conduct