Utah Trust & Estate Education Resource Center

Trust and Estate Attorney, Rust Tippett, offers legal services for estate planning, wills, trusts, probate, probate mediation, asset protection, taxat Robert S. (Rust) Tippett is a partner at Bennett Tueller Johnson & Deere in Salt Lake City. His pra...

Trust and Estate Attorney, Rust Tippett, offers legal services for estate planning, wills, trusts, probate, probate mediation, asset protection, taxat 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. He is a member of the Utah, California and Pennsylvania Bars. Mr. Tippett 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. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Brigham Young University (BYU) J. Reuben Clark School of Law. Mr. Tippett was the author of Utah's asset protection trust statute, which was signed into law by the Governor on March 28, 2013. Mr. Tippett is on the Court Roster of Approved Mediators for the St