Topics include:

ü General Rules

• IRD issues

• trusts as designated beneficiaries: five issues

ü How To Determine Which Trust Beneficiary’s Life Expectancy To Use

• multiple beneficiaries

• contingent beneficiaries

• accumulation trust concerns

• conduit trusts

• separate share problem

• IRS positions

• drafting

ü Should Retirement Plan Trusts Be Used?

• planning advantages

• credit shelter trusts

• disclaimer issues

• drafting

ü Funding The Credit Shelter Trust

ü How To Address QTIP Trust Planning With Retirement Plan Assets

• required formalities

• Rev. Rul. 2006-26

• drafting suggestions

ü Special IRA Rollover Break For Spouses

ü Planning Opportunities For A Spouse As The Beneficiary Of Marital And Non-Marital Shares

ü 2006 Pension Protection Act Provisions

ü Drafting Suggestions

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