Rose Marie La Femina
Trusts & Estates
Tax, trust and estate laws are updated and amended with ever-increasing frequency. Ensuring that you have properly planned for yourself and your family's future is essential. Greenberg Traurig's Trusts & Estates Department is primarily responsible for assisting individual clients and families in attaining their wealth transfer and estate planning objectives. Our attorneys provide integrated income and transfer tax advice that takes into account current and projected changes in the tax and state laws affecting our clients’ planning. GT provides a platform to bring our clients personalized strategies for their estate planning needs on a cost-effective basis; with trusts and estates attorneys in most of the firm’s offices, we are able to counsel our clients in the locations that are the most convenient for them.
Trusts And Estates Counsel
* We counsel clients on virtually every aspect of estate planning – to help minimize worry and risk
* Our attorneys work with clients to evaluate their unique situations and help them achieve their wealth transfer goals
* We design all necessary documents and structures to maximize tax efficiency and minimize the risk of disputes
* Our attorneys handle virtually all aspects of estate and trust administration, including the representation of both fiduciaries and beneficiaries in contested probate and trust matters
* When a dispute becomes unavoidable, our experienced attorneys represent our clients in litigation, mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution
Our Services
* Traditional estate planning, including preparation of revocable trusts, irrevocable trusts and wills
* Family business planning
* Life insurance planning
* Employee and retirement benefits
* International estate planning
* Wealth preservation
* Marital agreements
* Estate and trust administration
* Post-mortem planning
* Private foundations
* Publicly supported charities
* Contested probate and trust matters (representation of both fiduciaries and beneficiaries)
* Guardianship administration
Our Clients
* We assist high-net-worth individuals, including senior corporate executives and owners of privately held businesses
* The firm has represented a number of large institutions in disputes arising out of their fiduciary activities
Estate Planning And Administration
* We assist our clients in accomplishing tax-efficient wealth transfer consistent with their overall family goals and values
* Our advice takes into account the current and projected changes in the tax and state laws affecting our clients’ planning
* We counsel clients regarding:
- Business succession and wealth preservation across generations
- Succession planning with life insurance and employee and retirement benefits
- Gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer tax planning
- Charitable giving and the establishment and operation of private and publicly supported charitable organizations
- Administration of trusts and estates
* We represent clients in court in matters involving contested interests and in IRS administrative proceedings involving the determination or assessment of taxes, questions as to the taxable value of closely held businesses, real estate, artwork and other unique assets
International Estate Planning
* We offer services to non-citizens and non-resident alien individuals to assist them in structuring an estate and business succession plan that addresses the unique tax rules applicable to them
* Our attorneys provide wide-ranging services in the area of international estate planning, including domestic wills for non-citizens, foreign trusts, foreign business entities and pre-immigration planning
Board Certified Attorney, Wills, Trusts & Estates - Florida Bar
Rose Marie La Femina
Greenberg Traurig PA
401 E Las Olas Blvd #2000
Fort Lauderdale FL 33301-4223
Tel: 954 768-8215
Fax: 954 759-5525
E-mail: lafeminar@gtlaw.com
Areas of Concentration
* Estate planning
* Trusts and estates administration
* Probate and trust litigation
* Tax
* Non-traditional couples and families
* Pre- and post-nuptial agreements
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 estates 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, including complicated tax planning available after a decedent's death, settling will and trust disputes and resolving controversies with the Internal Revenue Service.
She is skilled as a liaison between personal injury and medical malpractice attorneys and their clients in establishing special needs trusts for the supplemental needs of individuals while simultaneously preserving their public benefits eligibility.
She also works with non-traditional couples and families regarding the issues that gay and lesbian couples, as well as other individuals in nontraditional relationships, face including the legal complications associated with living together, adoption and separation.
Prior to joining Greenberg Traurig, Rose was a shareholder with Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, where she managed the firm’s Aventura office Trusts and Estates Practice Group, served in the firm's Tax Section, and was Vice-Chair of the firm's Nontraditional Couples and Families Group. Rose has also operated her own estate planning and probate firm and served as managing partner of a small firm in Aventura where she was also head of the probate department supervising probate and guardianship administration.
As the Miami Subcommittee Chairman of the Probate Law Committee for The Florida Bar, she has assisted in recommending substantial changes to Florida probate statutes that were enacted into law by the Florida Legislature in January 2002. In 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 Rose was named to the Florida Super Lawyers® list. Rose has also achieved the coveted AV® Peer Review Rating, Martindale-Hubbell's highest available rating of legal ability and ethics.
Experience
* Trusts & Estates
* Probate & Trust Litigation
* Tax
* Wealth Management
* Non-traditional Couples & Families
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