Raoul Rodríguez Walters,CFP®, born to a Mexican father and an American mother, grew up in Mexico City and has lived and worked internationally practically his entire life. After finishing his undergraduate degree at the University of Texas at Austin he and his wife lived for extended periods of time in Venezuela, Sudan and the Republic of Georgia. In 1998 they returned to Mexico, where as a Certified Financial Planner™, he spent over ten years becoming an expert on complex cross-border transactions in the areas of tax, real property, estate and financial planning. In 2002 he established the legal department of his firm, to provide legal services to his mostly foreign clientele. In 2007 Raoul and his family moved to Portland, OR where he continues to apply his expertise and bicultural understanding of the subtle nuances of cross-border issues that only someone with his background can possess.