On June 30, 2014, the Supreme Court ruled that Hobby Lobby and other family owned and closely held for-profit companies can opt out of the Affordable Care Act’s requirement to provide no-cost prescription contraception in most health insurance plans. Hobby Lobby’s...
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Month: June 2014
Anne Prenner Schmidt, Esq., Master of Laws
Month: June 2014
U.S. Supreme Court finds inherited IRAs not protected in bankruptcy
On June 12, 2014, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld a Seventh Circuit decision that said inherited IRAs do not enjoy the protections of IRAs in bankruptcy proceedings. The petitioner in Clark v. Rameker, Trustee, Hedi Heffron-Clark, inherited an IRA worth about...
Deadline looming to amend retirement plans for same-sex benefits
The recent IRS Notice 2014-19 provides much needed guidance on how qualified retirement plans should treat the marriages of same-sex couples following the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Windsor. The Windsor decision invalidated Section 3 of the 1996...