Probate Lawyer Pinellas County
From Tarpon Springs to St. Pete Beach, we'll help you through probate
Speak Directly With Matt Weidner Today and get a free action plan for your Pinellas County estate
- Review the estate with Matt Weidner himself, a lawyer for 25+ years
- Sort out which county's court should handle the estate
- Walk through each step of a Pinellas County probate
- Learn who can serve as personal representative
- Make a plan that works for family living out of town
- 100% free guidance, with no pressure and no commitment
Free reviews are offered at our discretion and are not guaranteed, and a personal review by Matt Weidner, including same-day timing, is subject to case type and availability.
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Why Choose Us?
Handling a loved one’s estate is hard enough without wondering where to start, and harder still from another city or state. Whether your loved one lived in Dunedin, Seminole or Pinellas Park, the estate goes before the same Pinellas County court, and we can show you what that court will expect from the first filing on. Matt Weidner brings over 25 years of Florida practice and often works directly with the people he helps, so you can talk with an experienced lawyer, not a junior staff member.
We help you see what the estate needs and in what order: which type of administration fits, who should serve as personal representative, what to do with the original will, and how to keep things moving when the family is spread across different cities or states. Getting that clear early helps you avoid filing mistakes and needless delays.
Tell Matt where in Pinellas County your loved one lived and get your free action plan today.
How It Works
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get your free same-day evaluation and action plan
Submit the form above or give us a call to get started. People find our free evaluations and action plans extremely valuable.
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discuss your options With Matt so you know exactly how to proceed
Matt will go over all of your options with you so that you know exactly what to do. No more confusion!
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Get More Probate Help If Needed
Matt has practiced in Florida courts for over 25 years. If you want a lawyer for the rest of the case, we can take it from there.
Free evaluations and action plans are offered at our discretion, depend on case type and availability, and are not guaranteed, including a personal review by Matt Weidner. Submitting a form or contacting the firm does not create an attorney-client relationship or guarantee any outcome.
Meet Matt Weidner and the Weidner Law Team
Matt Weidner is a St. Petersburg lawyer who has been licensed in Florida since 1999, after earning his J.D. at Florida State University College of Law. Probate is one of the areas his practice focuses on, and he is admitted to all Florida state courts, including the circuit court where Pinellas County estates are heard. In the free evaluation, he walks you through each stage of an estate, so you know what the court expects and what comes next.
Associate attorney Jason M. Kral, whose work includes estate planning, real estate litigation and complex civil litigation, works with Matt at the firm’s office at 856 2nd Ave N in St. Petersburg. Together, the Weidner Law team serves families in every part of Pinellas County.
Our Pinellas County Probate Services
Our probate work covers each stage of a Pinellas County estate: opening it with the Clerk, guiding the personal representative, dealing with the family home, and handling disputes over a will or trust when they arise.
- Opening a Pinellas County estate
- Formal and summary administration
- Representing personal representatives
- Handling estate homes and property
- Probate, trust and will disputes
- Estate planning for your family
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Who we Help
We help anyone responsible for, or waiting on, the estate of someone who lived in Pinellas County. That may be a spouse still in the family home, a child two states away or a relative sorting out a snowbird’s condo.
- Families in any Pinellas city
- Out-of-state children of Pinellas parents
- Snowbird families with a Pinellas condo
- Personal representatives opening a new estate
- Surviving spouses in the family home
- Families unsure if probate is needed
Frequently Asked Questions
The Pinellas County circuit court, part of Florida’s Sixth Judicial Circuit, which covers Pinellas and Pasco counties. Florida generally opens an estate in the county where the person was domiciled, so the estate of anyone who lived in Pinellas, including unincorporated areas like Palm Harbor, is opened there. If you hire us, we file in that court for you.
Find the original will, if there is one, and keep it safe. Florida requires whoever holds it to deposit it with the Clerk in the county where the person lived within 10 days of learning of the death, which for a Pinellas resident means the Pinellas County Clerk. Then call us for a free evaluation.
Call the firm or submit the form on this page to start your free case evaluation; you do not need to travel to Pinellas County for that first step. We talk through the estate, whether you can serve as personal representative from where you live, and what the Pinellas County court will need first.
Nothing for the first step. Weidner Law offers the case evaluation and action plan free, and you are under no obligation to hire us afterward. If the Pinellas County estate needs a lawyer after that, we can talk through the next stage with you then.
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A Probate Lawyer for Families Across All of Pinellas County
Weidner Law’s office is at 856 2nd Ave N in St. Petersburg, and Matt Weidner handles probate for families throughout Pinellas County. The county has 24 municipalities, from Tarpon Springs and Oldsmar in the north to Gulfport and St. Pete Beach in the south, with Clearwater, Largo, Pinellas Park, Seminole, Dunedin and the Gulf beach towns in between. Families in any of them can reach Weidner Law at that one St. Petersburg office, by phone or through the form on this page.
Every one of those estates goes through the same system. Pinellas is in Florida’s Sixth Judicial Circuit, which also covers Pasco County. The Pinellas County Clerk of the Circuit Court has its probate division at the Clearwater Courthouse on Court Street, and its North County office and St. Petersburg branch on First Avenue North also accept probate filings. A family in Belleair and a family in Madeira Beach face the same court, the same Clerk and the same rules.
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Why Weidner Law Fits a Pinellas County Probate Case
When a Pinellas County estate includes a house or condo, Weidner Law brings real estate and foreclosure experience to that part of the case. After the 2008 financial crisis, Matt Weidner represented hundreds of Florida homeowners facing foreclosure, and he has trained attorneys across the U.S. in foreclosure defense. If a home in the estate still carries a mortgage, he brings that experience to helping the personal representative plan what happens to the property.
Matt is listed in The Best Lawyers in America for Litigation – Real Estate, and his admissions reach past the state courts to the federal Middle and Northern Districts of Florida and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. For a Pinellas County probate case, that means a litigator who can stay with the estate if a dispute over the property or the will ends up in contested proceedings before the Pinellas circuit court.
Weidner Law Helps Out-of-Town Families With Pinellas County Estates
If you are handling a Pinellas County estate from Tampa, Orlando or another state, Weidner Law can be your probate lawyer here. For family outside Florida, the first question is often whether you can serve as personal representative at all, because Florida generally limits nonresidents to certain relatives of the person who died. Matt reviews that with you in the free evaluation.
Part-year residents raise another question: where the person was domiciled. If your loved one lived in Pinellas County but kept a home up north, or lived up north and kept a condo in a Pinellas beach town, that answer decides whether the main probate happens here or whether the Pinellas property needs a separate ancillary administration. Matt helps you sort that out before anything is filed and, if you hire us, guides the case through the Pinellas County court.
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