Rodney L. Goodwin

Rodney L. Goodwin is CEO and founder of The Commonwealth Group, where he advises attorneys on income, gift and estate tax issues and provides plan design assistance. He was previously the associate director of Continuing Legal Education at The American Academy of Estate Planning Attorneys. Mr. Goodwin is author and co-author of various professional publications, including "Domestic Asset Protection Trusts: Tennessee’s Investment Services Trust and Applicability for a Creditor’s Right’s Counsel," and "Estate Planning At The Movies-Art of the Estate Tax Return." He is also an acknowledged contributor to numerous CPE/CLE presentations, including "Taxation of the Revocable Grantor Trust Before and After the Death of the Grantor" and "Corporate Loss Carryovers Under Internal Revenue Code Section 382." 

Mr. Goodwin obtained his B.A. in Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles and his M.S. in Federal Taxation at Golden Gate University in San Francisco.