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. 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. He holds a J.D. and an LL.M. in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center, two master's degrees from MIT, and a B.S. in nuclear engineering from Mississippi State University. He is admitted in New York and the District of Columbia. https://speakerdeck.com/terrylturnipseed