Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2025 
Matt Yanovitch is an attorney with Spotts Fain PC in Richmond, Virginia whose practice is focused on Litigation - Trusts and Estates and Trusts and Estates matters. He represents executors, administrators, trustees, heirs, beneficiaries, and creditors in disputes involving wills, trusts, fiduciary duties, and inherited property. His practice includes probate litigation, guardianship and conservatorship proceedings, elective share and augmented estate matters, constructive trust claims, petitions for aid and direction of the court, disputes involving powers of attorney, and trust and estate administration issues. Matt also advises fiduciaries throughout the estate and trust administration process.
Matt has handled a broad range of trust and estate litigation matters in Virginia courts, including contested probate proceedings and fiduciary disputes. He has testified as a witness regarding attorney fee issues in trust litigation matters. His work includes counseling clients on estate administration responsibilities, trust management issues, and litigation involving family and fiduciary conflicts.
In addition to his trusts and estates practice, Matt represents health care providers and businesses in regulatory and litigation matters. His health care law practice includes representation of skilled nursing facilities, long-term care providers, physician practice groups, home health agencies, and other health care organizations. He advises clients on state licensure requirements, Certificate of Public Need (COPN) regulations, Medicare compliance, HIPAA matters, and Stark and Anti-Kickback law considerations. He also represents health care clients in court proceedings and administrative matters before government agencies.
Matt also maintains a commercial litigation practice representing banks, mortgage companies, commercial real estate developers, landlords, and other businesses in contractual and business disputes. He has represented financial institutions in credit line default litigation and regularly handles commercial landlord-tenant disputes.
