This is new edition of Inherited IRAs updates the content to instruct and inform lawyers representing estates on how best to handle the laws and compliance issues surrounding their clients' investments.

Roth IRA Answer Book provides in-depth coverage of the administration and operation of Roth IRAs. A team of practicing experts analyzes the most recent developments in practice, as well as legislation, regulation, and law. It is the one resource that takes pension professionals step by step through all aspects of plan administration and compliance. Roth IRA Answer Book, Seventh Edition has been updated to include: How plan failures involving designated Roth accounts are corrected under Revenue Procedure 2013-12, the revised EPCRS--Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System Why the DOL seeks to replace the five-part test under the 1975 fiduciary investment advice regulation with a new definition that makes more investment service providers accountable as ERISA fiduciaries Substantially revised chapter on beneficiary designations Why the Supreme Court will rule on the exemption for inherited IRAs in bankruptcy and the new three-year bankruptcy exemption limit The extension of the qualified charitable contribution provisions under the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 A discussion of the Obama Administration's automatic workplace pension proposal requiring employers that do not sponsor a retirement plan to enroll their employees in a direct-deposit payroll deduction Roth IRA How the 2013 budget proposal would prohibit individuals from accumulating over $3 million in tax-preferred retirement accounts How the final regulations determine the oldest trust beneficiary when a beneficiary dies after the account owner but before the beneficiary determination date without disclaiming How a state law may supplement a non-ERISA plan's provisions concerning the manner of making a beneficiary designation and when ERISA preempts state law Discussion of the broadening of the airline payment rules under the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 that allows for the rollover of an "airline payment" to a traditional IRA, as well as, the recharacterization of an airline payment from a Roth IRA to a traditional IRA Discussion of the forthcoming guidance addressing eligible rollover distributions under Code Section 402(c) and Roth distributions under Code Section 402A that are "disbursed to multiple destinations" Explanation of the procedures for applying to the IRS for an opinion letter And more!

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