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Peter is an experienced litigator who specializes in probate, trust, and estate litigation. Peter handles all kinds of trust and estate cases including trustee breach of fiduciary duty, mismanagement/misappropriation of assets, accountings, trust challenges and contests, undue influence, elder abuse, fraud, beneficiary contests, litigation among beneficiaries and trustees, and probates. In addition, Peter represents and advises trustees for trusts of all sizes - ranging from several hundred thousand dollars to multi-million dollar trusts.
Peter is also experienced in civil litigation matters. His prior areas of practice include business litigation, real estate and property disputes, landlord tenant, life insurance, construction defect, entertainment, RICO, and even appellate work. Peter’s very first case nearly a decade ago was a landlord tenant dispute in which Peter obtained a judgment for treble damages against the landlord for wrongful retention of an $8,000 security deposit. Peter successfully defended against the landlord’s appeal, and in total Peter collected over $33,000 for his clients.
Since this time Peter has achieved numerous other favorable results for his clients. Some examples include an early settlement of a life insurance dispute in which his client received over $800,000 from the insurance company, an elder abuse suit on behalf of an Estate in which the Estate’s beneficiaries received over $400,000 worth of assets from the abuser, a business litigation suit in which Peter was successful in forcing a competing business to retract a negative review of his client’s business, a RICO case in which Peter earned a six figure settlement for his client, numerous suits against former trustees in which the former trustees were forced to repay the trust for their mismanagement or misappropriation, and trust and probate petitions to confirm distributions or for Peter’s clients to receive early distributions.
Peter graduated from Tulane University Law School in New Orleans, Louisiana magna cum laude in the top 15% of his class. Peter has been living and practicing law here in Southern California since 2010. In his free time Peter enjoys basketball, yoga, international soccer tournaments, any activity in the beautiful California sun, and travel.
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12777 W Jefferson Blvd, Bldg D, 3rd Floor, Playa Vista, CA, 90066
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Posted by anonymous | July 18, 2019 | Hired Attorney | Probate
Estate Lawyer
My father just recently passed. Unfortunately, even though he had a will, there were many lope-holes. Even though I was the primary care giver of my father, I was not the executor of his estate. Which, I have heard happens more often than not. I was advised to seek my own attorney. This is w...
Posted by Dennis | May 28, 2019 | Hired Attorney | Probate
"Lost" Annuity Recovered
My sisters and I had all but given up on receiving an annuity pay out from our mother"s estate. This large life insurance firm kept refusing to make the distribution for a year and a half with their vague corporate "legalese" responses to our requests. Mr. Vitas stepped in and recovered our esta...
Posted by Brett | August 13, 2018 | Hired Attorney | Probate
Long distance help in time of need
In a large metropolitan area, it is often difficult to find a straight talking, considerate, honest and reasonable service provider, especially in the legal field. In Peter, we found one. We were referred to him by our nephew in regard to a probate matter in the state of California. Since we we...
Posted by Richard | November 30, 2017 | Hired Attorney | Probate
Uncle passed not leaving a Will
I hired Peter for a complex problem with my uncle who died not leaving a Will and and not born in this country this created a multitude of problems as anyone can imagine Peter contacted my relatives and worked through every problem that was encountered to settle the estate in a most professional way ...
Posted by Jim | October 22, 2017 | Hired Attorney | Probate
Vittas Law firm review
I was involved in a rather complicated and difficult probate case for over three years. Three expert lawyers I had hired were not able to settle the case. Then I turned to Vittas Law firm for assistance. What a great decision. Met with Mr. Peter Vittas who I found to be very professional, smart and h...
"Peter was a law school classmate of mine. He is hard-working, intelligent, and one of the few people who I trusted the most to help me understand difficult legal topics during law school. Peter is also a solid person and remains a friend of mine. I'd recommend him to anyone."
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2010
JD - Juris Doctor
2003
BA - Bachelor of Arts
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