Trust Decanting and the methods in which it can be accomplished
J. Aaron Nelson, Jr.
J. Aaron Nelson, Jr. is a 2008 Cum Laude graduate of The Citadel, with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration: Accounting. He then attended The Charleston School of Law where he received his Juris Doctor Magna Cum Laude in 2011. In 2012 he graduated from the University of Florida Levin College of Law with a Masters of Laws in Taxation.
Mr. Nelson is the owner of The Nelson Law Firm of Bluffton, LLC and is “of counsel” at Merline & Meacham, P.A. in Greenville. He frequently speaks around the state on various estate planning, probate, trust, and tax topics. He has published two articles in the South Carolina Lawyer – one article on trust decanting and another on individual retirement accounts.
His practice focuses predominantly on estate planning, probate administration, business formation and representation of clients before the Internal Revenue Service and South Carolina Department of Revenue.
He and his wife, Elizabeth, live in Bluffton and have a daughter, Annie, a son, J. Aaron Nelson, III (“Tripp”), and two English labs, Ashley and Cooper.
