Matthew D. Hunter

Kinship, and the Forest Hills practice. New York.

Matthew D. Hunter is a graduate of the City University of New York, with majors in Political Science and Economics (B.A., 1976), and a graduate of Pepperdine University School of Law, Malibu, California (J.D., 1979). He was admitted to practice in California in 1980 and in New York in 1983. In 1996 he was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States.

Matt Hunter is one of a select few estate attorneys in New York who have been successfully handling complex kinship cases for more than thirty years. He has represented countless families of decedents who died without wills in the recovery of tens of millions of dollars. Many of these kinship cases also involved family of people who perished in the Holocaust. He is also a highly experienced real estate attorney and has represented numerous Forest Hills co-ops in often complex real estate transactions.

Mr. Hunter has been engaged in the private practice of law for more than thirty years. He has been active in local politics as a candidate for the New York State Assembly in 1998, and in community organizations including the West Side Tennis Club, the Men’s Club of Forest Hills, Friends of Station Square, the Queens County Bar Association, and the Queens County Women’s Bar Association.