Terry L. (T. L.) Turnipseed

Terry L. Turnipseed, who goes by T. L., is a tax, trust and estate planning attorney and Head of Estate and Tax Planning at Alta Trust Company, a South Dakota trust company serving ultra-high-net-worth families and their advisory teams. He has spent more than twenty-five years advising families, fiduciaries and their advisors on estate, gift, generation-skipping and fiduciary income tax planning, advanced trust design and cross-border private client matters.

He was a tenured Professor of Law at Syracuse University College of Law from 2004 to 2023, where he taught wills, trusts and estates, estate and gift taxation and fiduciary law. Earlier he practiced estate planning at Covington and Burling LLP in Washington, D.C., and served as an estate, gift and trust taxation specialist in the national tax office of Deloitte and Touche LLP. He is the author of the Bloomberg BNA Tax Management Portfolio on the spouse's elective share and lead author of the Heckerling Institute chapter on elective share and community property planning for migrating couples.

He holds a J.D. and an LL.M. in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center, two master's degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.S. in nuclear engineering from Mississippi State University. He is admitted to practice in New York and the District of Columbia and is a Certified Trust and Fiduciary Advisor. He is based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Read his writing at turnipseed.law and connect with him at linkedin.com/in/terrylturnipseed.