Expert Network Team

Timeless Legal and Financial Planning Q&A

Episode Notes

Nathan Merrill, attorney with Goodspeed Merrill, answers a series of common questions that Karl Frank, at A&I Wealth Management, receives on a regular basis. These include:

• 8 min: Inherited a home in a trust, can I use the step-up in basis? Can I use the $250k exemption from taxes?
• 12 min: Planning for modern families, in particular gay couples, and inheritance. Should I use a trust?
• 15 min: Inheriting IRAs and Roth IRAs in trust? Pros and cons? Karl has a significant "con"--the paperwork it creates for the financial advisor and non-spouse inheritor!
• 20 min: Owning real estate in different states when you die, any advice to simplify all this?
• 25 min: Gifting more than the gifting limit, but well below the lifetime gifting limit. Should I just file a gift tax return every year (no!) or should I do some other kind of planning (yes!)?

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