About Us
At The Wealth Protection Firm, we provide sophisticated yet practical legal counsel in probate, estate planning, trusts, guardianship, and tax matters. Whether you are navigating the death of a loved one, planning for your family’s future, administering an estate, or navigating a complex family situation, we deliver clear guidance and tailored solutions designed to protect your assets, transition property ownership, minimize liability exposure and achieve long-term legacy planning goals.
– LOCKSLEY A. RHODEN, ESQ., LL.M.
- lrhoden@wealthprotection.us
BAR ADMISSION: Florida, 2004
LOCKSLEY A. RHODEN
ESQ., LL.M.
Locksley A. Rhoden, Esq., LL.M., founder of The Wealth Protection Firm, created the Firm with a focus on preparing integrated trust and estate plans and business succession plans for small business owners, licensed professional, real estate investors and domestic and foreign high-net worth individuals and their families. More recently, the Firm’s practice has expanded to include probate and estate administration, domestic and international wealth transfer planning and non-tax aspects of establishing integrated trust and estate plans for purposes of asset protection, wealth preservation and tax minimization.
Locksley’s practice also involves organizing sophisticated ownership structures involving revocable and irrevocable trusts, LLC’s, LP’s, foreign trusts, land trusts, education trusts, and other various trusts or legal ownership entities implemented to protect assets and minimize legal threats against clients and their business interests. Locksley also advises tax-exempt and charitable organizations, public charities and private foundations on obtaining exemption of federal income tax, not-for-profit corporate governance practices and federal and state legal and tax reporting requirements. Additionally, Locksley offers representation of individual and business taxpayers against the IRS and other taxing authorities to negotiate settlement of tax lien, levy, garnishment and other tax deficiency judgment collection matters.
EDUCATION
- Georgetown University Law Center, Master of Laws in Taxation, 2002
- University of Pennsylvania Law School, Juris Doctorate, 2000
- Cornell University, Bachelor of Science, 1997
WORK HISTORY
- Tax, Estate and Probate Attorney with The Wealth Protection Firm, 2004 – present
- Tax, Estate Planning and Private Wealth Attorney with Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler, P.A. (Fort Lauderdale), 2004-2005
- Corporate and Tax Attorney with Becker & Poliakoff, P.A. (Fort Lauderdale), 2003 – 2004
- Corporate and Venture Capital Attorney with Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP (West Palm Beach), 2002 – 2003
- Business Litigation Support Attorney with Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP (Miami), 2001
- Federal Income and Estate Tax Consultant with Ernst & Young LLP and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (Washington, D.C. / Miami), 1999 – 2001
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
- Florida Bar, Real Property Probate and Trust Law Section
- American Bar Association
- Broward County Bar Association, Wills, Trusts and Estates Section
- Broward County Bar Association, Solo & Small Firm Section
- South Broward Bar Association
- South Palm Beach County Bar Association
- North Dade County Bar Association
- Caribbean Bar Association
- Fort Lauderdale Tax Council
- Florida Accountant, Attorney & Financial Professional Network
- Florida Institute of CPA’s, North Dade/South Broward Chapter
- Planned Giving Council of Broward
- Florida Black Probate and Trust Attorneys
- Cornell University Alumni Association
- University of Pennsylvania Alumni Association
- Big Brother Big Sisters of Broward
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Our Location
150 S. Pine Island Road, Suite 300, Plantation, FL 33324
Executive National Bank Building
20900 N.E. 30th Ave., Suite 200 (2nd floor) Aventura, Florida 33180
