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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 Michael | August 19, 2019 | Hired Attorney | Lawsuits & Disputes
Would recommend
It was absolutely a pleasure working with Peter. I found him after looking at several firms when I was being sue’d and had no idea how to proceed. Peter was very knowledgable, responsive and put me at ease through a difficult situation. In the end we were able to reach a settlement that was much bett...
Posted by Diana | August 08, 2019 | Hired Attorney | Estate Planning
Living Trust
After my husband passed in 2018. I needed to do a “Living Trust”. Looking for a lawyer who was good and for a reasonable price was difficult. Peter is reasonable, incredible, and a very knowledgeable Lawyer. He did my “Living Trust” and did my property transfer (Peter went the extra mile in fillin...
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 Fred & Dana Boudreau | June 06, 2018 | Hired Attorney | Trusts
Vittas's Law Firm
We hired Peter for a very complicated living trust case. He was very reasonable & patient throughout the process; considering we lived in another state & had family issues. He explained the process in terms that we understood. We found him to be informative & responsive to providing accurate feedbac...
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 ...
"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
English