Disclaiming trust assets, ending trust

In Ed’s book “Complete Retirement Road Map” (p. 170), there is a Q&A stating that a less costly, less time consuming way to end a trust (funded w/IRA) is to name the spouse or children contingent beneficiaries. Then they (if they all agree) can have trustee disclaim the IRA funds, that directly would then go to the spouse/children and the trust would be ended. My question: Would this still be an accurate answer if the the trust was the typical bypass trust (isn’t this also called the credit shelter trust?) used in estate planning?



It seems to me the best solution is to name the Spouse as primary bene, trust as contingent, children as tertiary. Al



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