Best Lawyers Near You in Fort Lauderdale, Florida for Trusts and Estates
Rose M. La Femina is a Florida Bar Board Certified Wills, Trusts and Estates Attorney who focuses her practice in the areas of estate planning, trust and estate administration, probate and trust litigation, and tax. Rose represents business owners, corporate executives, wealthy individuals and professionals and their families with a wide-range of estate planning issues. Rose also represents individuals and corporate fiduciaries in probate and trust administration and litigation matters, inclu...
George J. Taylor is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice areas of Commercial Litigation, Litigation - Trusts and Estates and Trusts and Estates. George J. practices law in Fort Lauderdale, Florida Best Lawyers has recognized George J. Taylor since 2021. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which George J. Taylor is held by other lawyers.
Paul B. McCawley focuses his practice on sophisticated estate planning for individuals and families. Such planning involves an overall plan for the client and the client’s family relating to the preservation and transfer of wealth while minimizing income taxes and transfer taxes (estate taxes, gift taxes, and generation-skipping transfer taxes) to the extent consistent with the client’s goals. Paul is a Board Certified Wills, Trusts and Estates Lawyer by The Florida Bar.
Robert B. Judd is a shareholder whose practice encompasses estate and healthcare planning, the administration of complex estates and trusts, and probate, trust, and fiduciary related litigation. Originally from upstate New York, Mr. Judd has been a resident of Fort Lauderdale since 1985. He has earned an AV Preeminent rating as independently determined by Martindale-Hubbell, has been designated in “Best Lawyers in America” for several years in the areas of trusts and estates and r...
Diana S.C. Zeydel focuses her practice on estate, trust and tax planning for high net worth individuals and families. Her practice includes planning for U.S. and non-U.S. citizens and residents. She specializes in sophisticated intra-generational wealth transfer strategies and business succession planning. She assists clients in litigated probate, trust and guardianship matters, and represents clients before the Internal Revenue Service in matters involving complex fiduciary income tax and es...
JEROME L. "Jerry" WOLF, is a member of the Florida and New York Bars. Jerry has more than 40 years of experience as a trusts and estates lawyer and practices in the areas of estate, tax, asset protection and business succession planning for high net worth families. He provides sophisticated transfer and generation-skipping tax strategies to successful individuals and advises closely held corporations, partnerships and other business entities on succession and asset protection planning structu...
Biography of Stuart R. Morris, Esq., CPA, B.C.S. Stuart R. Morris Esq., CPA, B.C.S. founded Morris Law Group in 1991. Mr. Morris practices in the following areas of law: estate and gift tax planning wills and trusts business structuring and succession planning asset preservation planning domestic and international tax planning probate and trust administration, and special needs planning Mr. Morris graduated with honors from the University of Florida, where he received his undergraduate and ma...
Justin Savioli is a partner with Katz Baskies & Wolf PLLC. He is a graduate of the University of Miami (B.A.) and University of Miami School of Law (J.D., cum laude). He served as an Articles and Comments Editor on the University of Miami Inter-American Law Review and was a member of Phi Alpha Delta, a professional law fraternity. He received his Master of Laws in Taxation (LL.M.) from the University of Florida.
With more than 30 years of experience, Ronald L. Siegel is a Florida Bar Board Certified specialist in Wills, Trusts and Estates. He focuses his practice in all aspects of estate planning, probate, trust administration, guardianship and real estate. Mr. Siegel is an active member of the community, serving as the Financial Vice President of the Board of Directors for Jewish Association for Residential Care (JARC), and as a Director of the National Board of Israel Elwyn. He also serves on profe...
Norman J. Benford counsels high-net-worth individuals and families in connection with estate planning and other complex tax issues, as well as business succession and other non-tax family matters. Norm also counsels individuals and institutions serving as fiduciaries of estates, trusts and guardianships in connection with administrative matters and disputes with the Internal Revenue Service.
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