A. Jude Avelino, Attorney

A. Jude Avelino is the founding member of Avelino Nitkewicz LLP. Mr. Avelino practices in the areas of estate planning, trust and estate administration, asset protection, and special needs planning. His clients range from single mothers to high net worth individuals, financial institutions, corporations and diverse blend of charitable organizations.

Mr. Avelino provides comprehensive estate planning services, including the preparation of wills, revocable living trusts, irrevocable life insurance trusts, dynasty trusts, irrevocable trusts for children, generation-skipping transfer trusts, grantor-retained annuity trusts, private foundations, charitable remainder trusts, sales to defective grantor trusts, individual retirement account (IRA) trusts, family limited partnerships, limited liability companies, qualified personal residence trusts, advance health care directives, durable powers of attorney, comprehensive assignments of assets, special needs trusts and a number of other estate planning instruments.

He focuses on helping clients develop a plan for the orderly transfer of assets during life or upon death, emphasizing the preservation of family wealth- i.e. the concept of Legacy Wealth. Mr. Avelino also advises clients who are serving as trustees or executors regarding the administration of trusts and estates, including the preparation of federal estate tax and fiduciary income tax returns.

Mr. Avelino provides guidance to various tax-exempt organizations regarding a number of issues, including those relating to charitable gifts. These organizations have included Gilda's Club- a cancer support charity started in honor of the late comedienne Gilda Radner.

Mr. Avelino is currently enrolled in Georgetown University Law School's LLM Program in Tax and Estate Planning. His anticipated graduation date is 2011.