Rustin Diehl, JD, LLM
Rustin Diehl advises clients on tax, business and estate planning matters. Rustin serves as an adjunct professor, frequent speaker and is current or former chair of professional associations. Rustin is a prolific author and has published many technical and popular articles on estate and business issues, as well as drafting and advising legislators in developing numerous statutes pertaining to trust and estate and business planning, creditor exemption planning and digital asset (blockchain) trusts and blockchain entities known as decentralized autonomous organizations.
Rustin has a Juris Doctor from the University of Utah and an LLM from Georgetown University, where he was a fellow in the Institute for International Economic Law.
Email: Rustin@Allegislaw.com | Website: www.allegislaw.com
Latest articles by Rustin Diehl, JD, LLM
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Should You or the Trust Pay a Trust's Income Taxes?
Irrevocable trusts can be set up so that the trust maker no longer pays income taxes, and the taxes are instead paid by the trust. What are the pros and cons?
By Rustin Diehl, JD, LLM Published
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Irrevocable Trusts: Less Control Equals More Asset Protection
Balancing the costs and benefits of surrendering control is key when ensuring a trust maker’s assets are properly managed and distributed the way they want.
By Rustin Diehl, JD, LLM Published
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Ins and Outs of Domestic Asset Protection Trusts (DAPTs)
You can create this type of self-settled irrevocable trust to protect your assets for yourself, rather than for someone else, but there are limits.
By Rustin Diehl, JD, LLM Published
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With Irrevocable Trusts, It’s All About Who Has Control
An irrevocable trust must be carefully funded, structured and managed to achieve both asset protection and tax planning.
By Rustin Diehl, JD, LLM Published
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Revocable Trusts: The Most Common Trusts in Estate Planning
Revocable trusts allow the trust maker complete control over the assets and can be quite efficient when it comes to capital gains and income taxes.
By Rustin Diehl, JD, LLM Published
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How Quitclaim Deeds Can Cause Estate Planning Catastrophes
A lot can go wrong (including inadvertent law-breaking) if you choose to go the easy route rather than using a trust to transfer real estate to your child.
By Rustin Diehl, JD, LLM Published
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To Avoid Probate, Use Trusts for Estate Planning
How revocable and irrevocable trusts ensure assets go to beneficiaries without them having to endure the long, expensive and public process of probate.
By Rustin Diehl, JD, LLM Published