Cristina Papanikos

Cristina Papanikos advises fiduciaries and beneficiaries on estate and trust administration and litigation matters. Based in Miami, she helps fiduciaries carry out their duties and beneficiaries understand and protect their rights throughout the administration process. When disputes arise, she helps clients navigate and resolve contested matters involving trusts and estates.

Cristina counsels fiduciaries and beneficiaries on complex estate and trust administration matters, helping them address fiduciary obligations and other legal and practical issues that arise during the administration process. She also assists clients with the modification, reformation and termination of trusts when changed circumstances require adjustments to existing estate plans.

When disputes arise, Cristina represents fiduciaries and beneficiaries in contested trust and estate proceedings. Her litigation practice includes will and trust contests, actions involving the interpretation of wills and trusts, fiduciary accounting proceedings, breach of fiduciary duty claims and proceedings involving the removal or surcharge of fiduciaries.

Cristina is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), an invitation-only organization of peer-elected trust and estate lawyers and law professors. She also is a published author and lecturer on probate and trust matters. Cristina is active in The Florida Bar's Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section and Probate Rules Committee, where she contributes to the development of Florida probate and trust law.