Terry L. Turnipseed
Associate Professor of Law
College of Law
Syracuse University
244H College of Law
Biography:
B.S., Mississippi State University
M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Nuclear Engineering)
M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Technology & Policy)
J.D., Georgetown University
LL.M., Georgetown University
Professor Turnipseed is an experienced estate planning and tax advisor. As an attorney with Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., he developed and implemented complex tax planning strategies for more than $1 billion in assets. Professor Turnipseed also represented a number of large trust beneficiaries with fiduciary issues. He has expertise in complex domestic and international estate planning, including substantial asset protection experience.
Prior to joining Covington & Burling, Professor Turnipseed was an estate and gift tax specialist with Deloitte & Touche’s national office. He has an LL.M in Tax, cum laude, and a J.D. from Georgetown University and two graduate degrees from MIT where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow. Professor Turnipseed received a bachelor’s degree in Nuclear Engineering, summa cum laude, from Mississippi State University where he was a Harry S. Truman Memorial Scholar and was recently designated as a Distinguished Engineering Fellow.
Professor Turnipseed has written in the areas of eminent domain, sexuality and the law, spousal property rights upon death, trust fiduciary law, and transfer taxation. He teaches courses in eminent domain, estate planning, wills and trusts, estate and gift taxation, and first-year property.
Publications:
Scalia's Ship of Revulsion Has Sailed: Will Lawrence Protect Adults Who Adopt Lovers to Help Ensure Their Inheritance From Incest Prosecution? , 32 Hamline L. Rev. 95 (Winter 2009).
How Do I Love Thee, Let Me Count the Days: Deathbed Marriages in America, Kentucky Law Journal, 96 K.L.J. 275 (March 2008).
Why Shouldn’t I Be Allowed to Leave My Property to Whomever I Choose At My Death? (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Loving the French), Brandeis Law Journal at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law, 44 B.L.J. 737 (2006).
Supreme Shocker! Anna Nicole Goes to High Court, New York Daily News, February 23, 2006.
Charitable Trusts Benefit Donors and College of Law, Syracuse Law Honor Roll of Donors (August 2005).
Back to the Future: Is Total Return Investing Old Fashioned?, American Law Institute – American Bar Association, Representing Estate and Trust Beneficiaries and Fiduciaries (July 2, 2004).
Practitioner’s Corner: Final Regulations On Trust Accounting Income Adjust To Modern Trust Practice, Federal Tax Weekly (January 4, 2004).
Tools for Better Balancing the Interests of Income Beneficiaries and Remaindermen, Tax Management Memorandum, Vol. 44, No. 13 (June 30, 2003) and Tax Management Estates, Gifts and Trusts Journal, Vol. 28, No. 5 (September 11, 2003).
Fleeing the Firm Doesn't Have to Mean Leaving the Law, The Legal Times (May 17, 1999).
New Charitable Remainder Trust Regulations, The Tax Advisor, 3-99 T.T.A. 151 (March 1999).
Who’s Minding the Army’s Stores?, Legal Times, P. 29 (March 17, 1997).
Media Appearances:
Road Project at Standstill: 2 Property Owners Hold up Camillus' Land Acquisition, Syracuse Post-Standard, December 5, 2007(quoted).
It's More Expensive Today for Cities to Have Proper Legal Representation, Syracuse Post-Standard, October 14, 2007, reprinted November 23, 2007 (quoted).
Excluded Heirs Put Spotlight on Updating Wills and Trusts, North Carolina Lawyers Weekly, June 4, 2007 (quoted).
Excluded Heirs in the Spotlight, The Minnesota Lawyer, May 21, 2007 (quoted).
Atkins Estate Battle Offers Advisors Lessons, Craine's Investment News, May 14, 2007 (quoted).
Excluded Heirs in the Spotlight, The Daily Record of Rochester, May 8, 2007 (quoted).
World May Know Today How Anna Nicole Died, Houston Chronicle, March 26, 2007 (quoted).
Law: Teaching by Tabloid, Newsweek, p. 14, March 19, 2007 (quoted).
Give and Save Through Your IRA, Syracuse Law Magazine, Winter 2007 (quoted).
Experts Skeptical About Anti-NYRI Bills, Utica Observer-Dispatch, February 6, 2007 (quoted).
Power Line Company Strikes Back: Lawsuit Takes Aim at Eminent Domain Law, Utica Observer-Dispatch, February 2, 2007 (quoted).
WSTM (NBC TV) news interview regarding the eminent domain issues, October 5, 2006.
Anna Nicole Smith Case Sends Ripples Though Probate World, Lawyers USA, page 1, May 22, 2006 (quoted).
WSTM (NBC TV) live news interview regarding the Marshall v. Marshall Supreme Court decision May 7, 2006.
Commented on May 1, 2006, Marshall v. Marshall Supreme Court decision.
SU Professor: U.S. Supreme Court Likely to Side With Ex-playmate, Syracuse Post-Standard, March 1, 2006 (quoted).
Anna Nicole Smith Gets Her Day in Supreme Court, Foxnews.com, March 1, 2006 (quoted).
Special Report With Brit Hume, Fox News Network, interview regarding Marshall v. Marshall Supreme Court oral argument, February 28, 2006.
Invited to attend the Supreme Court oral argument in Marshall v. Marshall, the Anna Nicole Smith case, February 28, 2006.
WSYR interview previewing the Marshall v. Marshall Supreme Court oral argument February 23, 2006.
Trust & Estates Law: Speakers Review Fiduciary Income Taxes, Lay Out the Basics, New York State Bar News, March/April 2006 (report on January 25, 2006, presentation before the New York Bar Association Annual Meeting).
WSTM (NBC TV) news story regarding the Marshall v. Marshall Supreme Court oral argument February 28, 2006 (quoted).
WSYR interview on the U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of New England, December 5, 2005.
WSYR Interview on the Nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, October 31, 2005.
WBFL Interview on the Nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, October 4, 2005.
WAER Interview on the Nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, October 3, 2005.
WSYR Interview on the Nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, October 3, 2005.
WAER Presentation of September 22, 2005 Thursday Morning Roundtable on Eminent Domain Issues, September 26, 2005. [WIndows Media Audio]
Eminent domain issues discussed: Thursday Morning Roundtable Looks at U.S. Supreme Court Decision, Syracuse Post-Standard, September 23, 2005 (quoted).
WBFL Interview on Eminent Domain Issues, September 22, 2005.
7 Pages of Questions for Judge Roberts; Senator Charles Schumer Meets for Nearly an Hour with Bush Supreme Court Nominee, Syracuse Post-Standard, July 22, 2005 (quoted).
Voices; On Destiny and Eminent Domain, Syracuse Post-Standard, June 24, 2005 (quoted).
8 Questions for an Expert, Syracuse Post-Standard, June 5, 2005 (quoted).
Final Exam for Area Law Schools: Alumni Discuss How Well - or Poorly - Their Alma Maters Prepared Them for the Law, The Legal Times (September 4, 2000)(quoted).
Syracuse Post-Standard, December 5, 2007 (quoted).
Scholarly Presentations:
Scalia's Ship of Revulsion Has Sailed: Will Lawrence Protect Adults Who Adopt Lovers to Help Ensure Their Inheritance From Incest Prosecution?, Syracuse University College of Law Colloquium Series, April 7, 2009.
Planned Charitable Giving with Underwater Assets, February 28, 2009, Syracuse University College of Law Board of Advisors Retreat, Boca Raton, FL.
Scalia's Ship of Revulsion Has Sailed: Will Lawrence Protect Adults Who Adopt Lovers to Help Ensure Their Inheritance From Incest Prosecution?, Property, Citizenship, and Social Entrepreneurism Conference, Washington, DC, November 14-15, 2008.
Planned Giving to Syracuse University, November 7, 2008, Syracuse University Board of Trustees, Syracuse, NY.
Supersized Planned Charitable Giving, January 20, 2007, Syracuse University College of Law Board of Advisors Retreat, Kiawah Island, SC.
Presentation to Syracuse University Family Issues Network group on elective share issues, December 1, 2006.
Will Your Wishes Be Granted? Preserving Your Estate For Your Heirs, Joseph I. Lubin House Monthly Conversations on the Law series sponsored by the Syracuse University College of Law, New York, NY, April 26, 2006.
Presentation at the New York Bar Association Annual Meeting entitled "A Primer on Fiduciary Income Taxes," New York, NY, January 25, 2006.
Presentation at the Syracuse University College of Law Board of Advisors Retreat entitled "Planned Charitable Giving: Leveraging Gifts to the College of Law," Kiawah Island, SC, January 21, 2006.
Syracuse Thursday Morning Roundtable Presentation "Private Property v. Public Interest: The Eminent Domain Debate," September 22, 2005.
Presentation at the Property, Citizenship, and Social Entrepreneurism conference, Washington, DC, November 5, 2004.
Back to the Future: Is Total Return Investing Old Fashioned?, July 2, 2004, American Law Institute – American Bar Association Conference on Representing Estate and Trust Beneficiaries and Fiduciaries, Boston, MA.
Tools for Better Balancing the Interests of Current and Remainder Beneficiaries, March 2003, Tax Management Advisory Committee Board Meeting, New York, NY.
Tools for Better Balancing the Interests of Current and Remainder Beneficiaries, December 16, 2002, District of Columbia Bar Association, Estates, Trusts and Probate Law Section.