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Are You Ready for the Great Wealth Transfer?

Are You Ready for the Great Wealth Transfer

Posted By Lineweaver Financial Group
July 17, 2025 Category: Financial Planning, Estate Plan, Legal

Over the next two decades, Baby Boomers are expected to pass down more than $84 trillion1, making it the largest wealth transfer in U.S. history. For many families, this inheritance represents a life-changing opportunity, but it also comes with important financial challenges. Navigating an Inheritance: What to Do First Before making any decisions, take time to process your loss. Once you’re ready, gather all key legal and financial documents such as wills, trusts, account statements, and property titles. Not all assets are taxed or distributed the same, so understanding what you’ve inherited is essential. For example, an inherited IRA from a non-spouse falls under the SECURE Act and must be emptied within 10 years of the original owner’s death. If a trust is named a beneficiary, the tax bill can hit faster, so it’s important to establish that quickly. A taxable brokerage account is simpler because you get a step 11up in basis to the date 11of 11death value, meaning little or no capital 11gains tax if you sell soon. Non 11qualified annuities are trickier. Earnings come out first and are taxed as ordinary income, and most contracts force you to cash out within five years or start lifetime payouts. Common Inheritance Mistakes to Avoid Without careful estate planning, it’s easy to make costly mistakes. One example is naming a trust as a contingent IRA beneficiary without understanding the tax implications. Another is leaving an IRA to one pers

The Power of Coordination

The Power of Coordination

Posted By Lineweaver Financial Group
April 18, 2019 Category: Coordination, Tax, Legal, Insurance, Financial, Wills, Estate Planning, Taxes, Retirement

  At the Lineweaver Companies, we believe a team approach to coordinating all your financial, legal, tax, and insurance needs helps save you time, money and worry.   For example, we had clients who were both close to retirement, and unfortunately the husband had been diagnosed with terminal cancer. The first thing we did was to work with them to make sure his pension was triggered in such a way that the wife could receive a greater lifetime benefit - almost a million more dollars than she would have otherwise received.   At the same time, in this sort of situation, you have to consider powers of attorney – and other basic estate planning documents that everyone should have, like wills, and even if trusts make sense for your particular situation.   There were also huge student loan balances of more than $120,000. But, because they kept the loans entirely in the father’s name, when he passed, the debt was forgiven. But what many people don’t know is that the forgiveness of debt – in this case student loan debt - is considered income by the IRS – and therefore taxable. As you can imagine, in this case it was significant: an additional $40,000. However, we were able to work with the family and the IRS to get the entire amount forgiven as well – so they ended up having the debt and the tax bill forgiven.   Given the pension payouts and their savings, they had significant assets that needed to be managed eff

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