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Inconsistent Rulings Should Cause an IRA Beneficiary to Consider Alternative Inheritance Methods

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Despite the differing treatment of inherited IRAs under Federal, New York, and New Jersey law, clients may be best served to inherit IRAs in trusts or other asset protection vehicles rather than outright so as to provide an...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Sixth Circuit Adopts Minority Interpretation of Mootness

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The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently held that parties arguing mootness under section 363(m) of the Bankruptcy Code must establish that the appellate court is unable to grant effective relief...more

Jackson Walker

Court Finds Broad Exemption for IRAs

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In In re Elizabeth Bratton Moore, the Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Texas (Sherman Division) ruled that the exemption for IRAs in Section 42.0021 of the Texas Property Code applies not only while the funds are...more

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The Intersection of Bankruptcy and Health Savings Accounts: Are HSA Accounts Exempt From Bankruptcy Estate?

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In 2003, Congress passed the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (the "Act"). The Act authorized states to create health savings accounts ("HSAs") with tax-preferred treatment to encourage...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Wealth Management Update - August 2014

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August Interest Rates for GRATs, Sales to Defective Grantor Trusts, Intra-Family Loans and Split Interest Charitable Trusts - The August § 7520 rate for use with estate planning techniques such as CRTs, CLTs, QPRTs and...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Supreme Court Decides Retirement-Fund Bankruptcy Exemption Case: Clark v. Rameker

On June 12, 2014, the United States Supreme Court decided Clark v. Rameker, No. 13-299, holding that funds in an individual retirement account (IRA) that a bankruptcy debtor obtained through inheritance are not "retirement...more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

High Court to Rule on Retirement Fund Exemption

Ruth Heffron established an IRA naming her daughter, Heidi Heffron-Clark, as the sole beneficiary. Ruth died in 2001 and the account, valued at roughly $300,000, passed to Heidi. After her mother’s death, Heidi then...more

Buchalter

9th Circuit Allows Certain Consensual Liens to Be Avoided In Chapter 7 Bankruptcy; Still, the Devil Is In the Details

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In 2010, a realtor in bankruptcy sought to avoid a consensual nonpurchase money lien she gave in her Mercedes Benz in exchange for a $22,000 loan because, in her words, that luxury automobile was “intrinsically ...more

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