Alexander A. Bove, Jr.
Bove & Langa, P.C.
Ten Tremont Street
Suite 600
Boston, MA 02108
Phone: 617.720.6040
Fax: 617.720.1919
bove@bovelanga.com
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Practice Areas

  • Advanced Estate and Tax Planning
  • Asset Protection Planning:  Domestic and International
  • International Estate and Tax Planning
  • Expert Witness:  Trusts (including offshore trusts), Wills and Will Contests
  • Planning with Life Insurance
  • Family Business and Succession Planning
  • Special Trusts for the Disabled and for Personal Injury Settlements

 

Professional Experience

Alexander Bove is a widely known and respected trust and estate attorney with over thirty years experience.  In 1998 he was admitted to practice in England and Wales.  Alexander has been quoted in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Worth, Forbes, Money, and Fortune as an authority on trusts and estate planning and asset protection planning.  From 1973 to 1995 he authored the widely acclaimed legal and financial column, “The Family Money”, for the Boston Globe. He has published several books on subjects of estate planning, asset protection planning, taxes, trusts and estates.  An internationally known lecturer in his fields of expertise, Mr. Bove has lectured at the annual Heckerling Tax Institute, the annual meetings of the American College of Trust & Estate Counsel (ACTEC), the Association of Advanced Life Underwriters (AALU), The Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT), Top of the Table, and The International Academy of Estate and Trust Law.

 

 

Sample Matters

  • Domestic and international asset protection plans including a variety of assets including real estate, closely held business interests, liquid investments and insurance products.
  • Development and implementation of estate plans involving multiple family trusts, intra-family sales agreements, and family-related entities.
  • Consultation and analysis of existing trust and estate documents, family entities, business and insurance agreements.
  • Establishment of family foundations and other planned giving arrangements with the family estate plan.
  • Consultation and representation regarding succession of family businesses, and sales and acquisitions of family businesses.

 

Faculty Appointments

  • Adjunct Professor of Law; Boston University School of Law, Graduate Tax Program, 1985-2003
  • Lecturer in law Northeastern University Law School 1983-1984

 

 

Books and Texts

 

 

Articles and Presentations

 

 

Memberships

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

 

 

Honors and Awards

  • Estate Planner of the Year, Boston Estate Planning Council, 1996
  • Outstanding Graduate, Suffolk University Law School, 75th Anniversary, 1986

 

 

Education

  • Boston University School of Law, Graduate Tax Program, LL.M. in Taxation, 1972
  • Suffolk University, J.D., 1967
  • Northeastern University, B.B.A., 1963
  • Northeastern University, A.E., 1961

 

 

Bar Admissions

  • Massachusetts, 1970
  • United States Tax Court, 1971
  • England and Wales, Solicitor, 1998

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