Retirement Plans

When you get a job with benefits, you may well be offered a 401(k) plan and/or life insurance. Even if you’re just getting started in your career, name beneficiaries who would receive these [...]

Question: I would like to leave my 401k, IRAs, etc. to my family in the Philippines. What is the best and easiest way to do this? Should I show them as beneficiaries or should I just have a [...]

Question: I am a divorced 60-year-old man. I will pay child support for about the next nine years. I have four children ages 13 to 22. I have a revocable living trust. But there seems to be a gap [...]

Consumers are often confused about the difference between estate and financial planning, and for good reason. Even professionals in these fields may use these terms interchangeably and sometimes [...]

Charities often encourage donors to make gifts of retirement plans due to the tax benefits of doing so. Retirement plans, of course, are taxed when the funds are withdrawn. But, non-profit [...]

There are a lot of reasons you may want some or all of your retirement plan assets to go into trust for the benefit of your heirs, including: Estate tax planning. In a second (or subsequent) [...]

If you inherit an IRA or other retirement plan (401(k) or 403(b)), the rules on when you have to take your required minimum distributions can be complicated unless you are the spouse of the [...]

The rules around retirement plans have always been much too complicated and the SECURE Act has exacerbated the situation. Back in the day, your parents or grandparents may have worked for the [...]

As part of the bankruptcy law overhaul in 2005, Congress exempted retirement plans and pensions from claims by creditors, meaning that even if you have to declare bankruptcy, you will not have to [...]