Alexander A. Bove, J.D., L.L.M.
 

Alexander Bove is an actively practicing trust and estate attorney with over twenty-five years experience.  From 1973 to 1995 he authored the widely followed legal and financial column, “The Family Money”, for the Boston Globe.  He is a nationally known lecturer in his fields of expertise and has published several books in the areas of estate planning, taxes, trusts and estates.  Mr. Bove has been quoted in the New York Times, Business Week, and Forbes Magazine, and has been often quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Money Magazine and Fortune Magazine as an authority on financial and estate planning. In 1996, Mr. Bove was honored by the Boston Estate Planning Council as Estate Planner of the Year.

 

PRACTICE AREAS:
 

Trusts and Estates

Asset Protection Planning: Domestic and International

Advanced Estate Planning

Probate Law and Disputes

International Estate and Tax Planning

Corporate Law

Business Law

Trusts for the Disabled


ADMITTED TO PRACTICE:  

 Massachusetts, 1970
 Solicitor, England and Wales, 1998


EDUCATION:  

Boston University Law School, Graduate Tax Program (L.L.M. in Taxation), 1972
Suffolk University (J.D.), 1967
Northeastern University (B.B.A.), 1963
Northeastern University (A.E.), 1961

PUBLICATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS (PARTIAL LIST):  

Editor – in-Chief:  Asset Protection Strategies, American Bar Association 2002
Editor-in-Chief: Asset Protection Journal; published quarterly by Panel Publishers, Law Division, New York, N.Y., 1999-2002
Adjunct Professor of Law: Boston University Law School, Graduate Tax Program, 1985-2003


BOOKS/TEXTS:

 

Author: The Complete Book of Wills, Estates & Trusts, Holt & Co., New York, N.Y.,  2000
Author: The Complete Book of Wills and Estates, Henry Holt & Co., New York, N.Y., 1989
Author: The Lawyers Medicaid Planning Manual, Ormond Sacker Press, Boston, MA, 1996
Author: The Medicaid Planning Handbook, National Edition, Little Brown Publishing Co., Boston, MA, 1992, 1995, 1997
Author: Nearly Free Tuition, Viking Press, New York, N.Y., 1985, 1988
Author: Joint Property, Simon & Schuster/Fireside, New York, N.Y., 1982
Co-Author: Estate Taxation in Massachusetts, Callaghan & Co., Chicago, IL, 1980
Co-Author: Lifetime Giving, CCH Topical Financial Planning Library, 2000
Author: A Professional Guide to Living Trusts, Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co., 1978

 

Articles (Partial Listing):

 

Author:  The Purpose of Purpose Trusts, Probate & Property magazine, May/June 2004
Author:  The Trust Protector:  Trust(y) Watchdog or Expensive Exotic Pet?  Estate Planning, August 2003
Author:  Combining a Private Annuity with a Variable Universal Life Policy, Estate Planning, December 2002
Author:  The Mechanics of Establishing an Offshore Trust, Asset Protection Strategies, Chapter 5 , American Bar Association, 2002
Co-Author, Trusts & Estates Forum, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly 2002 - present
Co-Author, Trusts and Estates Forum, Boston Law Tribune 2001
Author: Thought – Provoking Ways of Circumventing Section 684, (Or) Taming the Paper Tiger, Asset Protection Journal, Winter 1999
Author: The Foreign LLC:  Will it Replace the Family Limited Partnership?  Asset Protection Journal, Winter 1999
Author: Exercising Powers of Appointment – A Simple Task or Tricky Business?, Estate Planning, June, 2001
Author:  Powers of Appointment:  More (Taxwise) Than Meets The Eye, Estate Planning, October, 2001
Author: Moving the Immovable: Protecting the Real Estate From Creditors’ Claims, Estate Planning, August/September 2000
Author: Use of Powers of Appointment to Protect the Home, Estate Planning, January, 1997
Author: Informed Use of Commercial Annuities Can Guarantee Medicaid Eligibility, Mass. Lawyers Weekly, December, 1999
Financial/Legal Columnist: The Boston Globe, “Family Money” column, 1973-1995

 

MAJOR SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, University of Miami School of Law, 2003
Association of Advanced Life Underwriters, annual meeting 2003
American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, annual meeting 2003
Million Dollar Round Table, annual meeting 2004 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: 

Fellow: American College of Trust & Estate Counsel; Member, International Estate Planning Committee
Academician: The International Academy of Estate & Trust Law
Chair:  Asset Protection Planning Committee of the Real Property Probate and Trust Division of the American Bar Association
Law Society of England and Wales, London, England
Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners, London, England
International Bar Association, London, England

 

Contact Information

Contact Via

Address/Phone/Fax

 

 

email

bove@bovelaw.com

Phone

(617) 720-6040

Fax

(617) 720-1919 (Don't wait for the fax tone.

U.S. Mail - Company

Law Firm of Bove & Langa, P.C.

U.S. Mail - Address

Ten Tremont St., Suite 600 

 

Boston, MA  02108

 

http://www.bovelaw.com

 

 

 

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