Robert Stewart

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PRACTICE AREAS: Estate planning, administration of trusts and estates, probate litigation, guardianships, special needs trusts, charitable giving, Federal estate and gift taxation, state inheritance taxation, income taxation of estates and trusts, and the income taxation of corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies.

BIOGRAPHY
Robert A. Stewart joined the law firm of Lamm Rubenstone as “Of Counsel” in 2010 specializing in estates and trusts. In addition to working for several law firms, he previously held a number of management positions in the financial services industry as well as being a co-founder of the law firm of Rabil, Kingett & Stewart based in New Jersey. A long time resident of Philadelphia where he resides with his wife Michele and their three sons, Mr. Stewart offers tax advice and his services as an attorney to residents who cannot afford a tax lawyer through Philadelphia Volunteers for the Indigent Program (Philadelphia V.I.P.)

EXPERIENCE
Mr. Stewart began his legal career in 1983 with the New Jersey law firm of Myers, Matteo, Rabil & Norcross where he was the principal author of that firm’s tax opinions covering a number of transactions including oil and gas partnerships, research & development credits, along with the acquisition, dissolution, and merger of businesses. His interest in estates grew out of his experience with owners of family businesses who sought to transfer ownership of the business to the next generation of family members or to key employees and the desire of those owners to protect the assets they had accumulated over a lifetime. Dealing with the complexity of the federal estate tax laws and the income tax consequences of such transfers soon paled in significance to the challenges of protecting the client’s assets from creditors, the consequences of a son’s or daughter’s divorce, poor judgment, or illness. While estate and inheritance taxes still play a significant role in estate planning, for the last ten years Mr. Stewart’s estates work is now most often driven by a client’s desire to protect assets left to a surviving spouse, children, and grandchildren and to assure that those assets play the most beneficial role possible in the lives of the client’s heirs.

BAR ADMISSIONS:
Admitted in Pennsylvania and New Jersey; United States District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania and the District of New Jersey

EDUCATION:
LLM Villanova Law School (Taxation)
JD Widener University School Of Law
M.A. Villanova University (Eng. Literature)
B.S. St. Joseph’s University (Psychology)