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Robert C. Gunst
Cyril C. Gunst, Jr.

Robert C. Gunst

Born Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 9, admitted to bar, 1980, North Carolina and U.S. District Court, Western District of North Carolina; 1981, U.S. Tax Court.

Education:
Wake Forest University B.A., 1976; Pepperdine University J.D., 1979; University of Denver, LL.M. in Taxation, 1980.

Author:
‘The Top Three Tax Planning Ideas to Emerge From Tax Reform’; ‘Pay 20% Less for Land’ (with a Joint Purchase), ‘Installment Sale of a Reminder Interest for a Disappearing Note.’

Member:
North Carolina (Member, Taxation, Business Law, Estate Planning, and Elder Law Sections) and 26 th Judicial District Bar Association; North Carolina State Bar.

Affiliations:

• North Carolina State Bar
• North Carolina Bar Association
• Mecklenburg County Bar Association
• Novant Healthcare Employee Assistance Program
• Past Member of the North Carolina State Bar Association Group Insurance Committee from 1991 to 2002
• Past Member of the Tax Section Council of the North Carolina Bar Association; program planner for inter-disciplinary seminar entitled “Financial Uses of Life Insurance” for continuing education credits
• Past Instructor in Income Taxation, The American College of CLU at Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, North Carolina

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Cyril C. Gunst Jr.

           1924-2005

The other member of the firm of Gunst & Gunst was Cyril C. Gunst, Jr. father of Robert C. Gunst, Sr. Now retired, he was a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and practiced in Pittsburgh for over thirty years as Defense Counsel for the City of Pittsburgh, General Counsel for Federal Laboratories, Inc. and real estate closing attorney for Mellon Bank; he also served as Special Counsel for the school districts of North Hills, Moon, Babcock, Hampton and Allegheny County. He was a graduate of Duke University, Bachelor of Science, and the University of Pittsburgh, Juris Doctorate.

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