About me
Robert S. (Rust) Tippett is a partner at Bennett, Tueller, Johnson & Deere in Salt Lake City. His practice focuses on all aspects of estate planning, including trusts, probate, estate and gift taxation and conservatorships. Rust is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), and is a member of ACTEC’s Asset Protection and Legal
Education Committees. Rust was the principal author of Utah’s asset protection trust statute, and is the Utah Reporter for ACTEC’s Comparison of Domestic Asset Protection Trust Statutes. In addition to authoring The Utah Law of Trusts & Estates (a comprehensive 700-page legal reference treatise) and other materials available at www.utahestateplanning.org, Rust has published and presented many articles and papers in the trust and estate field. Rust holds a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from the University of Michigan. From 2003 to 2008 he served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern California (USC) Gould School of Law, and has been an Adjunct Professor at the Brigham Young University (BYU) J. Reuben Clark School of Law since 2009.
