In late December of 2019, Congress enacted new legislation designed to allow older Americans additional tax-deductible ways to grow their qualified retirement plans. Unfortunately, this Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act (the SECURE Act) ends the righ ...
Reviewing Estate Plans after the SECURE Act
After enactment of the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act (the SECURE Act) on January 1, 2020, clients now need to re-examine their estate planning with their advisors with regard to their IRAs and other qualified retirement plans. As we noted in ...
A.R.T. and Estate Planning
Assisted Reproductive Technology and Estate Planning: When Science Gets Ahead of the Law Traditionally, Americans and the law have thought of families as mothers, fathers and their children conceived by conventional methods and brought to term in the mother’s womb. ...
Securing Your Family’s Future Using Inheritance Trusts: Part 3
The Logistics of Inheritance Trusts In parts 1 and 2 of this series, we described Inheritance Trusts and how they can achieve clients’ desires to maintain their assets for as long as possible as a safety net protecting themselves and their loved ones from both anticipated a ...