Jason Edward Havens

Jason E. Havens is a Partner of the law firm of Holland & Knight LLP. He practices primarily in the firm's Jacksonville (also serving Ponte Vedra Beach and Fernandina Beach) office, and also is assigned to its Tallahassee (also serving Destin and Rosemary Beach) office. Because Mr. Havens served as Vice Chair and Chair of the firm's Nonprofit & Tax-Exempt Organizations Team for more than a decade, he regularly is involved in matters throughout the firm's 20+ offices. Mr. Havens is admitted to practice law in Florida and Tennessee. He specializes in complex estate and charitable gift planning (domestic and international), probate/trust administration, and probate/trust litigation for affluent individuals and families and on behalf of charitable organizations. He is a Board Certified Specialist (B.C.S.) in Wills, Trusts and Estates Law (The Florida Bar) and is also a board certified Estate Planning Law Specialist (EPLS) in Tennessee. In 2019, Mr. Havens was elected as a Fellow of The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC). Since 2020, he has served as a member of ACTEC's Charitable Planning and Exempt Organizations Committee and its Tax Policy Study Committee. Mr. Havens received his LL.M. in International Taxation from Regent University, his LL.M. in Estate Planning from the University of Miami, his J.D. from the University of Tennessee, and his B.A., magna cum laude, from Lipscomb University. While in law school in 1997, he created Legal Research for Estate Planners (LREP), a personal website that was recognized as one of the premier Internet sites on estate planning. Mr. Havens married Daphne Kay Havens in Nashville, Tennessee in 1996. They have three children and have lived in Florida since 1999.