Louis Nostro Jr

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Trusts and Estates

We assist our clients in distributing their assets, while minimizing the payment of estate taxes, through estate planning and estate administration.

Our services in this area include counseling clients to assure the orderly and efficient transfer of property to their beneficiaries with a minimum of estate, gift, generation-skipping and income tax costs. We provide legal services to personal representatives and beneficiaries on federal and state tax issues, including representation before all taxing authorities, as well as matters considered by the probate court, and we also represent the beneficiaries of estates and trusts. Our estate planning experience also includes giving advice to clients who are not residents of the United States.

We establish both voluntary and involuntary guardianships for incapacitated persons.

In preparing an estate plan, our attorneys tailor the plan for the individual by considering the sophisticated estate planning devices available, including: wills, revocable and irrevocable trusts, life insurance trusts, “Crummey” trusts, §2503(c) trusts for minors, unified credit shelter trusts, gifts, qualified terminable interest (QTIP) trusts, estate freezes, prenuptial agreements, charitable remainder trusts, charitable lead trusts, personal residence trusts, qualified personal residence trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts, grantor retained unitrusts, and qualified domestic trusts.

Board Certified Attorney, Wills, Trusts & Estates - Florida Bar

Fellow - American College of Trust & Estate Counsel

Louis Nostro Jr
Shutts & Bowen LLP
201 S Biscayne Blvd #1500
Miami FL 33131-4328
Tel: 305 379-9164
Fax: 305 347-7864
E-mail: lnostro@shutts.com

Practice Areas
* Trusts and Estates
* Equine Law

Louis Nostro is the Chairman of the Trusts and Estates Practice Group. Mr. Nostro specializes in estate planning, with primary emphasis on valuation planning (designed to transfer assets to younger generations with minimal or no transfer tax liability) and charitable planning. He is certified by the Florida Bar as a specialist in two areas: Taxation and Wills, Trusts and Estates.

Mr. Nostro lectures frequently at estate planning seminars sponsored by various professional groups, including the American Bar Association, the Florida Bar Association, the NYU Tax Institute, the Washington and Oregon Tax Institute and regional estate planning and planned giving councils. Mr. Nostro has also written extensively in the fields of estate and charitable planning.

Mr. Nostro serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Miami Law School Graduate Estate Planning Program (2003 – present), teaching Federal Wealth Transfer Tax Planning to LL.M. students. He has been named as one of the top 100 estate planning attorneys in the nation by Worth Magazine. Recognized as an expert by his peers, Mr. Nostro is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and Florida Super Lawyers.

Mr. Nostro is a Fellow of the American College of Trusts & Estates Counsel and a member of the Executive Council of the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section of The Florida Bar Association. He is Treasurer and a member of the Board of Trustees of Plymouth Congregational Church, Coconut Grove, Florida, and serves as the pro bono legal counsel to The Miami Lighthouse for the Blind.