Terry L. Turnipseed

Terry L. (T. L.) Turnipseed, J.D., LL.M., CTFA, is a tax, trust and estate planning attorney based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He serves as Head of Estate and Tax Planning at Alta Trust Company, a South Dakota trust company serving high-net-worth families and their advisors, and works as contract and of counsel attorney to law firms on complex trust, estate and cross-border tax matters, including dynasty trusts, domestic asset protection trusts, charitable trusts, business succession and estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax planning.

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Before returning to private practice, he was a tenured Professor of Law at Syracuse University College of Law for eighteen years, where he taught wills, trusts and estates, estate and gift taxation and fiduciary law. Earlier he practiced estate planning at Covington and Burling in Washington, D.C., and served as an estate, gift and trust tax specialist in the national tax office of Deloitte and Touche. He is the author of the Bloomberg BNA Tax Management Portfolio on the spouse's elective share and the lead author of a Heckerling Institute chapter on elective share and community property planning.

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He studied nuclear engineering at Mississippi State University, graduating summa cum laude, and holds master's degrees in nuclear engineering and in technology and policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned his J.D. and his LL.M. in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center. He is admitted in New York and the District of Columbia.

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Website: turnipseed.law. LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/terrylturnipseed. Email: tl@turnipseed.law.