Everything You Need to Know about Spousal IRAs
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Originally posted - 1/13/2020 - MagnifyMoney - Written by: Julie Ryan Evans
Spousal IRA's can be a great savings tool that many investing families are not aware of - particularly when planning with high net worth couples where the primary wage earning spouse can't make tax-deductible IRA contributions or Roth IRA contributions due to income limits and may already have tax-deferred IRA dollars. This scenario complicates any Roth conversion and brings the Pro-rata rule into play; making it impossible to convert just the non-deductible IRA money (after tax dollars) - causing a taxable event because a pro-rata % of the tax-deferred IRA money must also be converted. This is where a Spousal IRA for a spouse with no tax-deducible (deferred) IRA funds could possibly be an option for consideration. See this article for more information
Getting Married? Already Married? "..spousal IRAs help protect the non-working spouse in the case their happily ever after doesn’t end quite so happily...".
As a CFP focusing on divorce I always look at savings & planning through this lens as well.
“Let’s face it, with 50% or more of first marriages ending in divorce, spousal IRAs are a great way to level the playing field by having retirement assets in the name of the spouse that does not have access to a retirement plan if a couple ever find themselves in a divorce situation,”
Even if you are lucky enough to have that happily ever after - a spousal IRA is a great way to build family wealth, and there's still time in 2020 before the Tax deadline.
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