Barry Nelson is recognized as top lawyer by Florida's Legal Elite (2004-2008),
South Florida Legal Guide (2005-2008) and Florida Super Lawyers (2006-2008)
BARRY NELSON CREDENTIALS

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, asset protection planning, probate, partnerships and business law. He provides counsel to families focusing on income, estate and gift tax planning and assists business owners to most effectively pass their ownership interests from one generation to the next. He assists physicians and other professionals in tax, estate and asset protection planning. 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 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. He has been listed as a top Florida attorney in Florida Super Lawyers since 2006, The South Florida Legal Guide since 2005 and Florida Legal Elite since 2004. 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.

Mr. Nelson is active in professional organizations and frequently serves as a consultant for other attorneys and certified public accountants on complex tax issues. 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. He has published numerous articles in professional publications. As the 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 introduced and coordinated a project to write a new treatise authored by committee members entitled Asset Protection in Florida (Florida Bar CLE 2008). Mr. Nelson wrote Chapter 5 entitled “Homestead: Creditor Issues” and continues to serve on the committee. He is also a member of the Tax Section of the American Bar Association, the Tax Section of the Florida Bar, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Florida Institute of CPAs, the Estate Planning Council of Greater Miami and is a past President of the Greater Miami Tax Institute.

Mr. Nelson is a co-founder of the Victory Center for Autism and Behavioral Challenges (a not-for-profit corporation) and served as Board Chairman from 2000-2008. He previously served as the Chairman of the National Ambassadors of the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation of Jewish Philanthropies of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation. He served as the Mayor of the Town of Golden Beach, Florida from 1993 through 1995.

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