Barry A. Nelson, a Florida Bar Board Certified Tax and Wills and Trusts and Estates Attorney, is a shareholder in the North Miami Beach law firm of Nelson & Nelson, P.A. He practices in the areas of tax, estate planning, creditor protection planning, probate, partnerships and business law.

Mr. Nelson provides counsel to families focusing on income, estate and gift tax planning. He assists the business owners to most effectively pass their ownership interests from one generation to the next. He also assists physicians and other professionals in tax, estate and asset protection planning.

Mr. Nelson is a Fellow of the American College and Trust Counsel. He has been listed consecutively in The Best Lawyers in America since 1996 and is a Martindale-Hubbell “AV”-rated attorney. Mr. Nelson has served as an adjunct professor for the University of Miami School of Law LL.M. in Taxation program since 1998. He served as an adjunct professor at the University of Miami’s Graduate Department of Accounting from 1978-1995. He frequently serves as a consultant for other attorneys and certified public accountants on complex tax issues.

Mr. Nelson has published numerous articles in professional publications and he lectures extensively for the Florida Bar and the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants and has appeared on television and radio talk shows on tax and estate planning, including a segment on CNN’s “Business Day.”

As the father of a child with autism, Mr. Nelson combines his legal skills with compassion and understanding in the preparation of Special Needs Trusts for disabled children. Mr. Nelson is a co-founder (along with his wife, Judith) of the Victory Center for Autism and Behavioral Challenges (a not-for-profit corporation) and served as Board Chairman from 2000-2008.

Mr. Nelson previously served as the Chairman of the National Ambassadors of the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation of Jewish Philanthropies of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation.

Mr. Nelson served as founding Chairman of the Asset Preservation Committee of the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section of the Florida Bar from 2004 to 2007. He is also a member of the Tax Section of the American Bar Association and Florida Bar, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Florida Institute of CPAs and the Estate Planning Council of Greater Miami. He is a past President of the Greater Miami Tax Institute.

Mr. Nelson also served as the Mayor of the Town of Golden Beach, Florida from 1993 through 1995.

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