Inherited IRA rules: 7 key things to know 1. Spouses get the most leeway If someone inherits an IRA from their deceased spouse, the survivor has several choices of what to do with it: Treat the IRA as if it were your own, naming yourself as the owner. ...
Spouses have more flexibility in how to handle an inherited IRA. For one, they can roll over the IRA, or a part of the IRA, into their own existing individual retirement accounts. The advantage of this rollover is the ability to deferrequired minimum distributions (RMDs)of the funds until ...
the IRA can be re-registered as an inherited IRA in your name. Whether or not this makes sense for you depends on the type of IRA you have inherited (traditional or Roth), your decedent spouse's age, and the RMD rules.
The rules work differently for IRAs that you inherit. Before the SECURE Act, most beneficiaries had to take RMDs. But they could reset the RMD clock, so to speak, by using their own ages—presumably much lower than the deceased’s—and life expectancies to calculate the size of the require...
The first question is when you inherited the IRA, because heirs who received the account before 2020 can still use the "stretch" rules to take lifetime withdrawals, according to Slott. But there's now a 10-year withdrawal rule for certain heirs, meaning everything must be withdrawn by the...
Although the RMD rules apply toRoth 401(k)accounts, they do not apply toRoth IRAs.3 Required Beginning Dates (RBDs) and Inherited Accounts Retirement account holders specifybeneficiariesfor their accounts in the event of their death. In these cases, the required beginning date and any existing ...