Choate’s Notes
“Choate’s Notes” is a newsletter with interesting tidbits for professionals, mainly on the subject of estate planning for retirement benefits. It is sent by email only, and as of now is free. The publication schedule is extremely irregular.
Back issues are listed with links to the newsletter below.
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- May 2024 Separate accounts for subtrusts for RMD purposes
- October 2023 Your QLAC is now a twofer.
- August 2023 Tired of the 60-day rollover?
- Vol. 15 No. 1, 2012: Ideas for Underemployed Estate Planners
- Vol. 14 No. 1, 2012: How to Ask Questions
- Vol. 13, No. 1, Spring 2011: Disclaimers: Essentials + New Deadline
- Vol. 12, No. 2, Fall 2010: Who Makes Retirement Benefit Mistakes?
- Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring 2010: How to Cure an Excess IRA Contribution
- Vol. 11, No. 1, Spring 2009: Roth IRA Options Exploding
- Vol. 10, No. 1, Spring 2008: Separation vs. Severance vs. Retirement
- Vol. 9, No. 2, Summer 2007: What’s New Over the Summer?
- Vol. 9, No. 1, Spring 2007: Retirement Benefit Riddles
- Vol. 8, No. 2, Summer 2006: Pension Protection Act of 2006
- Vol. 8, No. 1, Spring 2006: Rolling over from a DRAC to a Roth IRA
- Vol. 7, No. 2, Summer 2005: Seven Reasons to Use an IRT Instead of an IRCA
- Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 2005: When is there a “distribution” from a retirement plan?
- Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring 2004: Should I combine all my IRAs or keep multiple separate IRAs?
- Vol. 5, No. 2, Fall 2003: When the Plan Administrator Won’t Cooperate with the Executor
- Vol. 5, No. 1, Winter 2003: Big PLRs of 2002
- Vol. 4, No. 1, Feb. 2002: Planning for Post-death and Post-disability Rollovers
- Vol. 3, No. 2, Fall 2001: Sex, Lies and IRS Publication 590
- Vol. 3, No.1, Spring 2001: Never Revoke an Old Trust
- Vol. 2, No.1, Fall 2000: The Forgotten Grandfathers: Retirement Plan Grandfather Rules
- Vol. 1, No. 2, November 1999: Keogh Kapers: How Keogh Plans Differ from Other QRPs
- Vol. 1, No.1a, June 1999: The MRD Limbo Period (from Jan. 1 of the age-70½ year to the RBD)