Litigating in Orphans’ Court 2025

Timothy J. Holman, Esquire, is a partner at the law firm of Smith Kane Holman, LLC, with offices in Malvern and Philadelphia. He limits his practice to fiduciary and commercial litigation (including will contests, power of attorney financial abuse matters, Executor and Trustee misconduct litigation, will and trust interpretation disputes, and guardianships). He lectures frequently for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, the Philadelphia Bar Association and others on fiduciary litigation topics, ethical issues facing lawyers and trial advocacy. He served previously as the Representative of the Executive Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Probate and Trust Law Section (the “Probate Section”) to the Board of Governors of the Philadelphia Bar Association. He also served a three-year term as an elected member of the Probate Section’s Executive Committee, and for six years served as chair of the Probate Section’s Orphans’ Court Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee. Mr. Holman taught a class on “Probate Process and Practice” for several years in the Villanova Law School’s Graduate Tax Division. He has been recognized from 2012 through 2025 by the “Best Lawyers in America” in the field of Litigation – Trusts and Estate, and as a “Super Lawyer” from 2016 through 2025 in Estate and Trust Litigation. Mr. Holman authors the popular blog “Around the Pennsylvania Orphans’ Courts” which can be found at the firm’s website – www.skhlaw.com.

Mr. Higgins is a partner at Mannion Prior, LLP. His practice focuses on litigation involving trusts, estates, guardianships, powers of attorney, and other fiduciary litigation matters before the Orphans’ Court Division of the Court of Common Pleas, Register of Wills, and the Pennsylvania Superior and Commonwealth Courts. He is a member of the Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and Montgomery Bar Associations, and serves as Chair of the Legislation Committee of the Probate and Trust Law Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association. Mr. Higgins has been named a Super Lawyers Rising Star® in estate and trust litigation each year since 2020 and was honored as a Lawyer on the Fast Track by ALM at its Pennsylvania Legal Awards in 2024. Before joining Mannion Prior in 2018, Mr. Higgins clerked for the Honorable Richard M. Hughes, III, of the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas. Mr. Higgins is a graduate of Colgate University (B.A., Classics), the Penn State Dickinson School of Law – Carlisle (J.D.), and King’s College London (LL.M.).

Brittany J. Camp focuses her practice on trust and estate planning and administration. She also focuses on fiduciary aspects of guardianships and litigation settlements for minors and incapacitated persons. Brittany earned her bachelor’s degree from Cornell University in 2009. She then graduated from Villanova University School of Law in 2012 where she was Managing Editor of Operations of the Sports and Entertainment Law Journal. During law school, Brittany was a student attorney for the Villanova Law Federal Tax Clinic where she represented low-income taxpayers in controversies before the Internal Revenue Service and in the U.S. Tax Court. Prior to joining Heckscher, Teillon, Terrill & Sager, Brittany was an associate in a small general practice law firm in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Brittany went on to earn her Masters of Law in Taxation and Estate Planning Certificate from Villanova University School of Law in 2014.

Todd is an attorney with over 25 years of experience representing clients in fiduciary litigation, estate planning, estate administration and taxation. He represents families trying to protect and pass wealth to successive generations while minimizing taxes. He represents clients in Orphans’ Court throughout Southwestern Pennsylvania and any associated appeals before the appellate courts in Pennsylvania. His litigation practice involves representing executors, trustees, beneficiaries, charities, agents under Power of Attorney’s and guardianship matters. He has argued before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and Pennsylvania Superior Court. Mr. Jordan is currently the Vice-Chair of the Allegheny County Probate and Trust section and was the past Secretary and Treasurer after serving 9 years on the Council. He is a frequent presenter at numerous continuing legal education seminars ranging from Litigating in Orphans’ Court to How to prepare the Pennsylvania Inheritance Tax Return.

Mr. Boulden is a partner in the Fort Washington firm of Timoney Knox, LLP, where he concentrates on estate litigation he also does estate administration and estate planning. He received his B.A. with honors from West Chester University and his J.D. from the Widener University School of Law, where he served on the Moot Court Executive Honor Board and was named to the Order of Barristers. Mr. Boulden has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America for the years 2007 through the present. He has been recognized as a Super Lawyer since 2014. Mr. Boulden served as an officer of the Montgomery County Bar Association Probate and Tax Section. He has served as a co-chairperson of the Montgomery County Orphans’ Court Rules Committee.  Mr. Boulden is a frequent lecturer on estate- and orphans’ court–related topics and has served on the faculties of numerous Pennsylvania Bar Institute programs. Mr. Boulden currently is a co-author of The Law of Wills in Pennsylvania.   He has previously co-authored or assisted with Hunters Orphans’ Court Commonplace Book (second edition), and The Pennsylvania Probate, Estates and Fiduciaries Code Annotated. 

Ms. Hagan is Managing Senior Counsel at PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. and provides support to PNC’s Asset Management Group, advising on all aspects of trust and estate administration, with a focus on fiduciary litigation. Prior to joining PNC, she was in-house counsel at the Bank of New York Mellon. Before moving in-house, Ms. Hagan concentrated her practice in the areas of gift and estate tax planning and estate and trust administration, with an emphasis on probate and trust litigation. Ms. Hagan is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and currently serves as a Council member for the Real Property Probate and Trust Law Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association. She received her J.D. from Washington and Lee University School of Law and her B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Virginia.

Rick Holzworth is a partner at Heckscher, Teillon, Terrill & Sager, P.C. His practice focuses on fiduciary litigation in administrative proceedings, trial courts, and appellate courts. His clients include individuals, corporate fiduciaries, non-profit entities, and closely-held businesses throughout Pennsylvania and across the country. He has significant experience in a variety of matters involving estates, trusts, guardianships, powers of attorney, and charitable interests. Rick frequently speaks and writes on fiduciary litigation and estate and trust topics, including will contests, attorney-client privilege and the fiduciary exception, and issues involving medical marijuana. He currently serves on the Executive Committee for the Philadelphia Probate and Trust Law Section and is the chair of the Orphans’ Court Litigation Committee.