In the Media

Terry L. Turnipseed is a frequent source for reporters covering estate planning, trust disputes, deathbed marriages and inheritance law. Media inquiries: tl@turnipseed.law or (202) 262-2979.

Television

• Special Report with Brit Hume, Fox News Channel. National television interview on the Supreme Court oral argument in Marshall v. Marshall, the Anna Nicole Smith estate case (February 28, 2006).

Quoted and cited

• Deathbed Billionaires Continue to Pursue Lustful Marriages While Heirs Wait and Worry, The Trust Advisor (June 18, 2011).
• Scripps Networks Gains Most in Two Years After Trust Petition, Bloomberg News (June 17, 2011).
• Unholy Matrimony: How to Fight Back, Wall Street Journal (June 11, 2011).
• Kiss-immee of Death, Trusts and Estates magazine (April 20, 2011).
• Florida Trust and Probate Litigation Blog, on new section 732.805, Florida Statutes, which gave families standing to challenge deathbed marriages and was structured on the recommendations in his 2008 Kentucky Law Journal article (December 17, 2010).
• Excluded Heirs Put Spotlight on Updating Wills and Trusts, North Carolina Lawyers Weekly (June 4, 2007); Excluded Heirs in the Spotlight, Minnesota Lawyer (May 21, 2007) and The Daily Record of Rochester (May 8, 2007).
• Atkins Estate Battle Offers Advisors Lessons, Crain's InvestmentNews (May 14, 2007).
• World May Know Today How Anna Nicole Died, Houston Chronicle (March 26, 2007).
• Law: Teaching by Tabloid, Newsweek (March 19, 2007).
• Give and Save Through Your IRA, Syracuse Law Magazine (Winter 2007).
• Experts Skeptical About Anti-NYRI Bills and Power Line Company Strikes Back: Lawsuit Takes Aim at Eminent Domain Law, Utica Observer-Dispatch (February 2007).
• Anna Nicole Smith Case Sends Ripples Through Probate World, Lawyers USA, page 1 (May 22, 2006).
• Trusts and Estates Law: Speakers Review Fiduciary Income Taxes, Lay Out the Basics, New York State Bar News (March/April 2006).
• Anna Nicole Smith Gets Her Day in Supreme Court, FoxNews.com (March 1, 2006).

Writing for general audiences

• Slate: A Florida Millionaire Adopted His 42-Year-Old Girlfriend. Isn't That Incest? (February 7, 2012), syndicated by the Washington Post and Newsweek wire service; and All the President's Signatures: The Constitutional Quibble with the Autopen (August 24, 2011). Slate author page.
• Palm Beach Post, New York Daily News and Legal Times. See Publications.