Publications
Writing by Terry L. Turnipseed on the elective share, community property, deathbed marriages, adult adoption, fiduciary income taxation and trust administration, for practitioners, scholars and general readers.
Practice publications
- One Hundred Percent of Marriages End: Elective Share (and Community Property) Planning for Modern Love and Migrating Couples (lead author), 56th Annual Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, University of Miami School of Law, chapter 9 (2022).
- Spouse's Elective Share, Bloomberg BNA Tax Management Portfolio 841-1st (co-authored with Professor Jeffrey Pennell and Christopher Cline) (2012). Author page at Bloomberg Tax.
- Fair or Foul? Inheritance-Driven Adult Adoption within Same-Sex Partnerships, Jurist (August 24, 2009). Read at Jurist.
- Back to the Future: Is Total Return Investing Old Fashioned?, ALI-ABA, 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).
Book
- Community, Home and Identity (co-editor with Professor Michael Diamond, Georgetown University Law Center), Ashgate Publishing, in the book series sponsored by the Association for Law, Property and Society (2012). ResearchGate.
Scholarly articles and book chapters
- The President and the Autopen: Is It Unconstitutional for Someone or Something to Sign a Bill Outside of the President's Presence?, 17 Florida Journal of Technology Law and Policy 83 (2012).
- Adult Adoption of Lovers and Spouses to Help Ensure Their Inheritance: Fair or Foul?, in The Public Nature of Private Property (Robin Paul Malloy and Michael Diamond, eds., Ashgate Publishing 2011), Association for Law, Property and Society series.
- Community Property v. the Elective Share, 72 Louisiana Law Review 161 (2011). Read at LSU Digital Commons.
- Is Voting in Churches (or Anywhere Else) Unconstitutional? The Polling Place Priming (PPP) Effect (with Jeremy Blumenthal), 91 Boston University Law Review 561 (2011).
- Scalia's Ship of Revulsion Has Sailed: Will Lawrence Protect Adults Who Adopt Lovers to Help Ensure Their Inheritance from Incest Prosecution?, 32 Hamline Law Review 95 (2009).
- How Do I Love Thee, Let Me Count the Days: Deathbed Marriages in America, 96 Kentucky Law Journal 275 (2008), reprinted in the Minnesota Family Law Journal (November/December 2009). Florida's 2010 deathbed marriage statute, section 732.805, Florida Statutes, was structured on recommendations in this article.
- 2005 to 2006 Survey of New York Law: Estates and Trusts, 57 Syracuse Law Review 1135 (2007).
- 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), 44 Brandeis Law Journal 737 (2006).
News and magazine articles
- A Florida Millionaire Adopted His 42-Year-Old Girlfriend. Isn't That Incest? Maybe. But It Is Also a Good Way to Shield His Fortune from the Law, Washington Post and Newsweek wire service (March 9, 2012); Slate (February 7, 2012).
- Making Girlfriend a Daughter More Common than You Might Think, Palm Beach Post (February 7, 2012).
- All the President's Signatures: The Constitutional Quibble with the Autopen (It's Not What You Think It Is), Slate (August 24, 2011).
- Supreme Shocker! Anna Nicole Goes to High Court, New York Daily News (February 23, 2006).
- Fleeing the Firm Doesn't Have to Mean Leaving the Law, Legal Times (May 17, 1999).
- New Charitable Remainder Trust Regulations, The Tax Adviser (March 1999).
- Who's Minding the Army's Stores?, Legal Times (March 17, 1997).