A Potpourri of Beneficiary Disputes and Tax Laws: EDU #2628
About this episode
The episode discusses beneficiary disputes and tax law proposals, including historical cases and current legislative efforts.
Chris’s Summary Jim and I dig into two beneficiary disputes as part of what we’re calling a “potpourri” EDU show: the 1930s Goodman Triangle life insurance gift tax dispute and a recent Montana Supreme Court ruling on an uncashed cashier’s check. We also discuss a bipartisan proposal to raise the home sale capital gains exclusion and a separate proposal to index capital gains for inflation more broadly. Jim’s “Pithy” Summary Chris and I dig into a variety of topics, starting with a court fight that traces back nearly a hundred years, something folks in the industry call the Goodman Triangle. Picture three people tied to one policy: an owner, an insured, and a separate beneficiary. Mrs. Goodman took out five life insurance policies on her husband, moved them into a revocable trust, and thought she was fine, until he died and the IRS said she’d made a taxable gift. She fought it and the court’s decision on the case still gets cited whenever a policy or an annuity has three different people sitting in those three roles. From there we get into a couple of proposals sitting in Congress right now. One would finally raise the…
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