Practice Expertise

  • Business Services
  • Tax & Estate Planning/Administration
  • Probate, Trust & Fiduciary Litigation
  • Estate Planning & Administration

Areas of Practice

  • Business Services
  • Estate Planning & Administration
  • Probate, Trust & Fiduciary Litigation
  • Tax & Estate Planning/Administration
  • Taxation
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Profile

Robert Tiplady practices in the areas of estate planning, asset protection planning, wealth preservation, business succession, and probate, including wills, trusts, powers of attorney, probate and trust administration, and probate litigation. He regularly advises business owners, executives and professionals regarding family/business succession, asset protection, tax, wills and trusts. Mr. Tiplady also advises families, family offices and fiduciaries regarding will and trust disputes, will and trust interpretation issues, disgruntled beneficiaries and tax issues.

Wealth preservation techniques include wills, trusts, retirement account planning, irrevocable life insurance trusts (ILITs), dynasty trusts, trust protectors, grantor retain annuity trusts (GRATs), spousal lifetime access trusts (SLATs), grantor trusts, charitable remainder trusts (CRATs/CRUTs), and charitable lead trusts (CLATs/CLUTs).

Asset protection techniques include domestic asset protection trusts (DAPTs), limited liability companies, limited partnerships, and tenancy by the entirety.

Bar Admissions

Michigan, 1997

Education
Wayne State University, JD., summa cum laude Eastern Michigan University, M.A. University of Michigan, B.A.

Areas of Practice

  • Business Services
  • Estate Planning & Administration
  • Probate, Trust & Fiduciary Litigation
  • Tax & Estate Planning/Administration
  • Taxation

Professional Career

Professional Associations
  • State Bar of Michigan, Probate and Estate Planning Section, Councilmember, Fall 2006 to present
  • Washtenaw County Bar Association, Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Law Section, Co-chair, August 2006 to present
Seminars/ Presentation
  • 2007 - 47th Annual Estate Planning Institute, Institute of Continuing Legal Education - "Attacking or Defending Fiduciary Fees"
  • 2007 - Michigan Supreme Court Judicial Institute, Annual Judicial Conference - "Fiduciary Fees"
  • 2006 - Institute of Continuing Legal Education - "The Estate Planning Process, Fundamentals of Estate Planning"
  • 2005 - Washtenaw County Probate, Estate Planning and Trust Law Section - "Update on the Uniform Trust Code"
  • Mr. Tiplady has made several presentations to financial institutions on reducing risk in fiduciary administration



Articles

Additional Articles
  • Wayne Law Review v.50 no.2 "Annual Survey of Michigan Law - Trusts and Estates"
  • Wayne Law Review v.48 no.2 "Annual Survey of Michigan Law - Trusts and Estates"
  • Wayne Law Review v.47 no.2 "Annual Survey of Michigan Law - Trusts and Estates"
  • Wayne Law Review v.46 no.2 "Annual Survey of Michigan Law - Trusts and Estates"

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