Miguel D. Pena Law

Miguel D. Pena Law is a Wilmington, Delaware law practice focused on estate planning, estate administration, business succession, and Delaware trust law. The firm represents individuals and families, high-net-worth clients, banks, trust companies, fiduciaries, and non-Delaware attorneys. Its work ranges from wills, trusts, durable powers of attorney, and health care directives to sophisticated planning involving directed, charitable, dynasty, and asset protection trusts, as well as cross-border family planning.

Miguel D. Pena Law is led by Miguel D. Pena, who earned his J.D. and LL.M. in Taxation from Villanova University School of Law and his B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College. Before forming his own firm, Pena was a partner in the Wilmington office of a large national law firm and a director at a Delaware boutique trusts-and-estates firm. His tax and trust-law background supports the firm's planning, administration, and fiduciary advisory work.

Miguel D. Pena Law assists clients with probate and estate administration, guardianship matters, charitable planning, and strategies intended to reduce delays, preserve privacy, and address potential family conflict. The firm also drafts and reviews Delaware trust agreements and advises individual and corporate fiduciaries on fiduciary obligations. Its trust work includes forming, migrating, and modifying trusts; transferring trust situs to Delaware; appointing directed trustees; and establishing advisers and trust protectors under Delaware law.

Miguel D. Pena Law draws on more than two decades of its founder's experience in estate planning and trust law. Pena is a former chair of the Estates and Trusts Section of the Delaware State Bar Association and has provided expert testimony in estate and trust litigation before the Delaware Court of Chancery. He has also written on Delaware qualified disposition trusts and estate planning. The firm serves clients in Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Florida while providing focused guidance on wealth transfer, trust administration, and fiduciary matters.