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Julio began practicing law over 30 years ago in Brazil and has spent most of his career focused on helping clients in the areas of international taxation, real estate, and foreign entities wishing to conduct business in the United States. While still living in Brazil, Julio served as an Associate of the Special Counsel of the Presidency, and Special Advisor to the Minister in Chief of the Military Office of the Republic of Brazil. After that he with this family to the United States and Julio completed a JD in 1999 and an LLM in 2004 at the University of Miami School of Law.. In 2001 Julio authored the book “How to Export to the United States,” a guide through the complexities of doing business (mainly exporting) with the companies located in the United States. Since then he has been invited as a featured speaker in more than a dozen countries throughout the Americas to discuss international trade, international taxation, arbitration, establishing entities and doing business in the United States.

Attorney Maureen MacSweeney is the founding attorney of The Lineage & Legacy Law Firm. She focuses her Florida-based legal practice on estate planning. After working for 25 years in healthcare, helping to create and nurture families as an Advanced Practice Nurse Midwife, Maureen made the shift from working in healthcare to focusing on law and legal life planning for families. As a trusted advisor, Maureen prides herself in providing an unwavering level of service which is client-focused, and results driven. She firmly believes that, as in medicine, building authentic relationships is essential to creating favorable outcomes for clients and has instilled this value into the culture of The Lineage & Legacy Law Firm.. In her estate planning practice Maureen provides high-value solutions for family and individual wealth preservation, asset protection and protection planning for those we cherish most, our children. Her engagement with clients differs from those of traditional law firms by offering empowering information that educates clients, as opposed to mere document drafting. Her passion is to serve families by helping them to protect their children, plan for their future and in the process keep the family out of conflict and court.. Maureen graduated from the University of Connecticut where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in interpersonal communication, and a Bachelor of Liberal Arts in Germanic Studies. She received her Master of Science in Advanced Practice Nursing from Case Western Reserve University. Maureen went on to earn a Juris Doctor degree from Barry University in Orlando.