Before joining Marino & Associates, P.C., as of counsel, Mr. Kontogiannis spent several years at a boutique firm in New York City.  Mr. Kontogiannis concentrates his practice on representing individuals in their trust and estate planning and administration and real property transactions.  Mr. Kontogiannis is a graduate of Brooklyn Law School where he was a member of Phi Delta Phi National Legal Honor Society.  He completed his undergraduate degree at Cornell University.
      
Mr. Kontogiannis has extensive experience representing individuals in their trust and estate planning and administration.  On the planning side, Mr. Kontogiannis has counseled numerous individuals on formulating an estate plan in order to protect and shelter their assets and to insure the orderly distribution of their estates to their loved ones.  As part of this planning, Mr. Kontogiannis has experience in drafting Last Will and Testaments and various Trust documents.

In conjunction with Mr. Kontogiannis' skills in trust and estate planning, Mr. Kontogiannis has assisted numerous fiduciaries in the administration of estates.  This is often a trying time for a family and Mr. Kontogiannis takes extreme care to assist the family in the sympathetic and orderly administration of an estate.  This assistance includes representing the fiduciaries in all Surrogate's Court matters including Probate Proceedings, Accounting Proceedings, and other miscellaneous Court proceedings involving the estate.  Also, Mr. Kontogiannis takes great care in assisting the fiduciaries in the marshaling of assets to ultimately be distributed to the beneficiaries of the estate in accordance with the decedent's wishes.

Mr. Kontogiannis' skills in Trust and Estates compliment his abilities in real property law.  Mr. Kontogiannis has assisted clients with the entire home buying and/or selling experience from interacting with brokers, drafting, negotiating and reviewing contracts of sale, clearing encumbrances on title, and working with our client's lenders in obtaining financing or satisfying a loan.
      
Mr. Kontogiannis is an active member of the New York State and Westchester Bar Associations.  He is admitted to practice before all New York Courts and the United States Federal Courts of the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
      
George Kontogiannis
Marino & Associates, P.C.
30 Glenn Street, Suite 307
White Plains, NY 10603
gk@pmarinolaw.com
(914) 368-4525 ext.1703