Jan. 2, 2024
2024 Law Update (Episode #292)
To begin the new year, Tom reviews many of the 2024 changes relevant to estate planning and settlement, including Estate and Gift Taxes, Retirement contribution amounts, 529 Plans and Michigan Durable Powers of Attorney.
To begin the new year, Tom reviews many of the 2024 changes relevant to estate planning and settlement, including Estate and Gift Taxes, Retirement contribution amounts, 529 Plans and Michigan Durable Powers of Attorney.
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Well, good afternoon, Michiganers,
and happy new Year. It is Tuesday,
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January two, twenty twenty four,
and of course this is Tuesday with
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Tom, Michigan's only weekly podcast where
we do answer your questions about estate planning
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and a state settlement in Michigan,
and we don't send you a bill.
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As always, I'm your host,
Tom Doyle, a state planning attorney,
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lifelong Michigan resident, ambassador for all
things good in this great state of Michigan.
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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to two
Days program. Well, if you're
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a regular listener to the program,
you probably note that I took a little
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time off at the end of twenty
twenty three recharge my batteries, think about
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what we're going to be doing in
twenty twenty four. Some of those things
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are going to include an updated website
that we're actively working on, and a
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list of hopefully many individuals who will
be guests on the program talking about various
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topics that would be of interest to
you. But my last episode at the
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end of October was to know the
limits of your Power of Attorney. So
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if you have a power of attorney
and you're wondering what sort of limits you
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have, I would invite you to
listen to that last episode. Today though
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first program of twenty twenty four,
I'm going to spend some time talking about
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law updates, things that are changing
in twenty twenty four. But as always,
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please remember what I'm about to discuss
during the program is, as always
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for educational purposes. It is not
intended to be legal advice. You need
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to work with your attorney and tax
advisor to determine what is appropriate for you
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and your estate plan. So change
of the law in twenty twenty four,
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and I'm going to start with federal
estate tax exemption. That's the amount of
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money that you or amount of assets
total estate that you can own at the
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time of your death before you have
to worry about a federal estate tax being
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paid. In twenty twenty four,
that number is now for a single person
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thirteen million, six hundred and ten
thousand dollars. That means, if you're
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a single person and you die in
twenty twenty four and you do not have
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an estate that exceeds thirteen million,
six hundred and ten thousand, you estate
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will not own any federal state tax. For a married couple, that number
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basically gets doubled to twenty seven thousand, two hundred and twenty dollars, So
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that's a lot. Those are sizable
estates that people can have in twenty twenty
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four and they're not going to have
to worry about federal estate tax do The
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concern though, because we're looking ahead
is in twenty twenty six, so you
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have two years before we're going to
be in twenty twenty six under the current
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law. In twenty twenty six,
those significant federal estate tax exemptions that we
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have now are going to expire,
and when they expire, they will drop
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down to what they were before the
law was passed. That cause those amounts
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to go up. So a single
person in twenty twenty six, that number
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is going to drop down to five
million dollars. For a married couple,
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that amount is going to drop down
to ten million dollars. Now, between
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now and the first of twenty twenty
six, the IRS will calculate an inflationary
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factor, so we're not really sure
what those amounts are going to be,
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but they'll start at five million dollars
for a single person, ten million dollars
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for a married couple. So projecting
out to years from now and that's what
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we're beginning to talk to our clients
about. You might not have a federal
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state tax now, you might not
have a federal state tax in twenty twenty
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five, but if you're going to
be looking at a significant federal state tax,
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which can be forty percent of your
estate in twenty twenty six, now's
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the time to start thinking about what
are your options. What are you going
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to be able to do between now
and then Now. Maybe maybe you're not
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going to pull the trigger on any
of the options, but you need to
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start thinking about planning options to have
them in place before January first of twenty
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twenty six. Good news, the
concept of portability is still going to be
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available for married spouses. That concept
again is if I have an estate and
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I only use up a portion of
my federal state tax exemption at the time
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of my death, I can pass
on the balance of that federal estate tax
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exemption to my spouse the other federal
tax somehow. That now the federal state
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tax assumption we usually talk about death, but it's also an overall gift tax
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exemption which has to do. It's
a unified credit, which means you can
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either this year die as a single
person with thirteen million, six hundred and
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ten thousand or give away thirteen million, six hundred and ten thousand and not
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owe a gift tax. But in
the gift tax area, the exclusion that
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we normally think about is how much
can I give somebody in any one year
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before I need to worry about either
reporting that gift to the IRS and or
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possibly paying a federal gift tax,
or at least notifying the IRS and making
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an exemption to defer it till later. Well, in twenty twenty four,
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that federal gift tax exclusion amount is
now eighteen thousand dollars. That means you
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can give any one person during twenty
twenty four assets totaling eighteen thousand dollars,
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and as long as you don't exceed
that amount, you don't have to worry
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about federal gift tex. It's estimated
that that exclusion amount, because it does
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get adjusted for inflation, will be
nineteen thousand dollars in twenty twenty five.
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So, looking ahead twenty twenty six, if you've gotten a state that's going
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to be too large might be subject
to federal state tax exemption, possible consideration
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could be to look at using gifts
of eighteen thousand dollars or less as ways
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to shrink the size of the estate
in twenty twenty four, using gifts again,
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if it goes up to nineteen thousand
dollars a piece to shrink the size
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of the estate in twenty twenty five. That's why you need to start looking
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at what options might you have available
now, and how do you start using
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those options, because obviously January first, twenty twenty six, you can't go
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back and retroactively make gifts in twenty
twenty four. You can't go back and
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make retroactively gifts in twenty twenty five. So you should be talking to your
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financial advisor, your attorney about what
strategies might be out there that you will
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consider looking at to shrink the size
of your state. Another area is in
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the area of IRA contributions. Every
year we're looking at new IRA contribution amounts.
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Well, in twenty twenty four,
it's gone up a little bit,
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up to seven thousand dollars a year. But if you're looking if you're age
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fifty and older, you've got that
catchup contributionability which makes it eight thousand dollars.
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So if you're under fifty, you
can give seven thousand dollars to your
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IRA. If you're over fifty,
you can actually increase that to eight thousand
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dollars. Now if you've got a
four to one K plan similar type plan
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four or three b's, et cetera. The contribution limit for twenty twenty five
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four is twenty three thousand. An
area that has had a potentially significant change
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for many of you is in five
twenty nine plans, and hopefully you're familiar
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with five twenty nine plans. I've
had previous episodes of the program about what
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five twenty nine plans are a way
to set aside funds to pay for college,
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et cetera, for children, grandchildren, et cetera. As in the
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past. Tuition as in past,
five twenty nine plans can be used to
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pay for tuition at accredited private public
colleges, universities, community college, trade
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school, graduate schools, professional schools, wherever those happen to be in the
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United States. Additionally, for students
who are in college, you can use
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your five twenty nine plans to pay
for things like books and supplies, computers,
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software, internet access, room and
board, at least if you're half
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if there halftime student and special needs
equipment. Now, in addition, over
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the last few years, some changes
to five twenty nine plans have now allowed
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up to ten thousand dollars of money
in a five to twenty nine plan to
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be used to pay off a student's
student loans, So that can be helpful
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in using the money for that as
well as well as you can use up
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to ten thousand dollars to be paying
towards the cost of tuition at K through
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twelve schools. So maybe you've got
a child, a grandchild who's in private
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school K through twelve, you can
you can put a five twenty nine plan
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together use up to ten thousand dollars
to pay for that K through twelve tuition.
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But the change, the change that's
occurring in twenty twenty four has to
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do. It's a result of the
Secure Act. Don't worry about what that
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stands for. But the change due
to the Secure Act is now in twenty
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two twenty four, amounts that are
sitting in those five twenty nine plans can
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be rolled over. So if they're
not used for tuition, they're not used
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for college, they're not used for
cost of higher education, you still have
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money sitting in those plans, they
can be rolled over into a ROTH IRA
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for the beneficiary of the five to
twenty nine plan. Now, there are
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some limits on it. One of
the limits is that the beneficiary has to
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have owned the IRA for at least
fifteen years. So if you've got a
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child out there who's got an IRA
and they've had the IRA for at least
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fifteen years, that would be eligible
to roll over unused funds that are in
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the five twenty nine plan. You
cannot exceed in any one year the ROTH
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contribution limit for that year. So
if you look at the ROTH contribution limit
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and if at seven thousand dollars this
year, that means you can't roll over
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more than seven thousand dollars in twenty
twenty four. The beneficiary will also have
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to have earned income at least to
the at least equal to the amount that
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you are rolling over, and currently
there is a thirty five thousand dollars lifetime
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limits. However, for some clients
the ability to roll over some of those
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unused funds because in the past,
the option was, well, we're done
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with college, We've got money sitting
in this account. If I take the
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money out, I'm going to have
a ten percent penalty on it. You
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now have the ability to roll over
some of those funds potentially into a rough
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ray and avoid the ten percent penalty
that would be assessed on taking the funds
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out, as well as the taxable
consequence of taking the funds out. Michigan,
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let's talk about something specific with Michigan. There's a couple of areas that
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I want to at least bring to
your attention. In the probate world,
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when we're looking at probating the estates, we look at having under the probate
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code what are called statutory allowances,
and those are things like the family allowance,
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spousal allowance, and the exact property
allowance. Those are certain amounts that
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the probate Code recognizes are distributed out
out from an estate before we actually get
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to distributing the balance of the estate. Those allowance amounts will go up in
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twenty twenty four. Every year the
Michigan Department of Treasury issues its new regulations
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indicating what those amounts are going to
be for twenty twenty four. And the
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other amount that will be going up
in twenty twenty four is once you get
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pass those allowances, if you have
an estate that's going to a spouse.
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There's a certain amount of the estate, what is the spousal share that they
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are allowed to reach. See perhaps
before other people are going to receive it.
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Maybe that's going to be children,
step children, or children and parents,
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and that amount of that spousal share
will also be increasing in twenty twenty
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four. Again, those are non
amounts that you plan for. Those are
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simply amounts that are going to be
effective when we are looking at probating states.
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The big change though, in Michigan, that's going to be coming,
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and we're not exactly sure what's going
to end up resulting. It is.
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On November seventh, twenty twenty three, the governor signed a new statute,
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and under that statute, Michigan adopted
what is called the Uniform Power of Attorney
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Act. The purpose of the Uniform
Power of Attorney Act is to try and
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create powers of attorney that are uniformed
throughout the country so they can be used
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as you move from state to state. But we we adopted this new statute,
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it does not become effective until July
one, twenty twenty four, so
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it's not effective right now. It's
not applying right now. Under the new
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statute, though, there are going
to be some changes to the requirements in
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order for a durable power of attorney
to be what we call durable and durable
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under a durable power attorney means that
it would continue to be effective relative to
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your named agent even if you become
incapacitated, and that, quite frankly,
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is the reason most clients have durable
powers of attorney is they want something to
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be in place that if they become
incapacitated, that their agent can manage their
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business for them. So there's going
to be some changes in the requirements that
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make durable powers of an attorney durable. There's also some changes in the statutory
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requirements of what sort of acknowledgments have
to be in the durable power of attorney
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that your agent is going to have
to understand and agree to. There's actually
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under the statute a form for these
new uniform powers of attorney that are going
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to be where attorneys are obviously at
our stage working on how do we take
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our current existing powers of attorney and
adapt all of those to the new statute.
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But the question, the unknown,
the uncertainty, is this, how
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are your banks and your financial institutions
going to treat your existing powers of attorney.
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You already have an existing power of
attorney. It doesn't become invalid simply
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because of the new statute, because
it was created before the statute existed.
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But it is unclear now how banks
and financial institutions are going to treat those
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existing powers of attorney. Are they
going to allow them to be used,
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or are they going to insist that
they will only recognize powers of attorney as
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of July first, twenty twenty four
that are created and executed under the new
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statute. This is similar to a
problem that we ran into with banks and
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financial institutions the last time powers of
attorney were changed, where we had to
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start adding acknowledgments of responsibility to them. Banks and financial institutions began rejecting the
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use of a power of attorney that
did not have an acknowledgment of responsibility section,
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even though the statute said that powers
of attorney that were in existence before
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that statute took effect were still legally
valid. As a practical matter, we're
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running into our clients were ringing into
with banks and their financial institutions simply refusing
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to accept them so between now and
July which suggests that you consider when you're
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at your bank or at your credit
union, or you're talking to your financial
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advisor or working with a financial institution. Now's the time to start checking with
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them to find out are they going
to be willing to accept your existing power
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of attorney if it is ever needed
to be used there and if not,
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need to start looking at between now
and July first, once we have decided
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our lawyers have determined what these new
powers of attorney are going to look at
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to having updated powers of attorney in
place for you. So I kind of
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went through things fairly quickly, but
that's the summary of what I see are
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the most important legal updates that are
facing us in twenty twenty four again,
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Federal estate tax, Federal gift tax, IRA contributions for one five twenty nine
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plans, and what you can now
do to roll those funds over in under
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Michigan probate cord statutory allowances, and
the spousal share under interstate succession. But
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probably the biggest one that's going to
impact most of you is really going to
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be because of Michigan's adoption of the
new Uniform Power of Attorney Act. As
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always, if you have any questions
about these changes, how they might be
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impacting your estate plan, or if
you haven't put together in a state plan
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or you're looking at having to amend
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always a man and I would be
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perhaps amending an existing plan, or
assisting you and settling an estate. Again,
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simply go our website Doyle APC dot
com. There you will find information
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on how you can schedule either virtual
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in person consultations if that's what you
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office. Again too, don't forget
that we have the legal Store at the
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order individual documents, perhaps just a
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Well, good afternoon, Michiganers,
and happy new Year. It is Tuesday,
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January two, twenty twenty four,
and of course this is Tuesday with
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Tom, Michigan's only weekly podcast where
we do answer your questions about estate planning
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and a state settlement in Michigan,
and we don't send you a bill.
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As always, I'm your host,
Tom Doyle, a state planning attorney,
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lifelong Michigan resident, ambassador for all
things good in this great state of Michigan.
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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to two
Days program. Well, if you're
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a regular listener to the program,
you probably note that I took a little
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time off at the end of twenty
twenty three recharge my batteries, think about
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what we're going to be doing in
twenty twenty four. Some of those things
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are going to include an updated website
that we're actively working on, and a
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list of hopefully many individuals who will
be guests on the program talking about various
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topics that would be of interest to
you. But my last episode at the
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end of October was to know the
limits of your Power of Attorney. So
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if you have a power of attorney
and you're wondering what sort of limits you
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have, I would invite you to
listen to that last episode. Today though
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first program of twenty twenty four,
I'm going to spend some time talking about
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law updates, things that are changing
in twenty twenty four. But as always,
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please remember what I'm about to discuss
during the program is, as always
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for educational purposes. It is not
intended to be legal advice. You need
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to work with your attorney and tax
advisor to determine what is appropriate for you
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and your estate plan. So change
of the law in twenty twenty four,
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and I'm going to start with federal
estate tax exemption. That's the amount of
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money that you or amount of assets
total estate that you can own at the
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time of your death before you have
to worry about a federal estate tax being
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paid. In twenty twenty four,
that number is now for a single person
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thirteen million, six hundred and ten
thousand dollars. That means, if you're
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a single person and you die in
twenty twenty four and you do not have
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an estate that exceeds thirteen million,
six hundred and ten thousand, you estate
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will not own any federal state tax. For a married couple, that number
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basically gets doubled to twenty seven thousand, two hundred and twenty dollars, So
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that's a lot. Those are sizable
estates that people can have in twenty twenty
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four and they're not going to have
to worry about federal estate tax do The
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concern though, because we're looking ahead
is in twenty twenty six, so you
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have two years before we're going to
be in twenty twenty six under the current
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law. In twenty twenty six,
those significant federal estate tax exemptions that we
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have now are going to expire,
and when they expire, they will drop
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down to what they were before the
law was passed. That cause those amounts
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to go up. So a single
person in twenty twenty six, that number
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is going to drop down to five
million dollars. For a married couple,
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that amount is going to drop down
to ten million dollars. Now, between
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now and the first of twenty twenty
six, the IRS will calculate an inflationary
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factor, so we're not really sure
what those amounts are going to be,
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but they'll start at five million dollars
for a single person, ten million dollars
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for a married couple. So projecting
out to years from now and that's what
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we're beginning to talk to our clients
about. You might not have a federal
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state tax now, you might not
have a federal state tax in twenty twenty
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five, but if you're going to
be looking at a significant federal state tax,
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which can be forty percent of your
estate in twenty twenty six, now's
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the time to start thinking about what
are your options. What are you going
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to be able to do between now
and then Now. Maybe maybe you're not
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going to pull the trigger on any
of the options, but you need to
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start thinking about planning options to have
them in place before January first of twenty
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twenty six. Good news, the
concept of portability is still going to be
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available for married spouses. That concept
again is if I have an estate and
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I only use up a portion of
my federal state tax exemption at the time
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of my death, I can pass
on the balance of that federal estate tax
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exemption to my spouse the other federal
tax somehow. That now the federal state
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tax assumption we usually talk about death, but it's also an overall gift tax
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exemption which has to do. It's
a unified credit, which means you can
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either this year die as a single
person with thirteen million, six hundred and
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ten thousand or give away thirteen million, six hundred and ten thousand and not
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owe a gift tax. But in
the gift tax area, the exclusion that
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we normally think about is how much
can I give somebody in any one year
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before I need to worry about either
reporting that gift to the IRS and or
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possibly paying a federal gift tax,
or at least notifying the IRS and making
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an exemption to defer it till later. Well, in twenty twenty four,
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that federal gift tax exclusion amount is
now eighteen thousand dollars. That means you
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can give any one person during twenty
twenty four assets totaling eighteen thousand dollars,
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and as long as you don't exceed
that amount, you don't have to worry
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about federal gift tex. It's estimated
that that exclusion amount, because it does
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get adjusted for inflation, will be
nineteen thousand dollars in twenty twenty five.
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So, looking ahead twenty twenty six, if you've gotten a state that's going
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to be too large might be subject
to federal state tax exemption, possible consideration
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could be to look at using gifts
of eighteen thousand dollars or less as ways
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to shrink the size of the estate
in twenty twenty four, using gifts again,
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if it goes up to nineteen thousand
dollars a piece to shrink the size
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of the estate in twenty twenty five. That's why you need to start looking
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at what options might you have available
now, and how do you start using
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those options, because obviously January first, twenty twenty six, you can't go
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back and retroactively make gifts in twenty
twenty four. You can't go back and
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make retroactively gifts in twenty twenty five. So you should be talking to your
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financial advisor, your attorney about what
strategies might be out there that you will
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consider looking at to shrink the size
of your state. Another area is in
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the area of IRA contributions. Every
year we're looking at new IRA contribution amounts.
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Well, in twenty twenty four,
it's gone up a little bit,
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up to seven thousand dollars a year. But if you're looking if you're age
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fifty and older, you've got that
catchup contributionability which makes it eight thousand dollars.
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So if you're under fifty, you
can give seven thousand dollars to your
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IRA. If you're over fifty,
you can actually increase that to eight thousand
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dollars. Now if you've got a
four to one K plan similar type plan
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four or three b's, et cetera. The contribution limit for twenty twenty five
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four is twenty three thousand. An
area that has had a potentially significant change
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for many of you is in five
twenty nine plans, and hopefully you're familiar
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with five twenty nine plans. I've
had previous episodes of the program about what
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five twenty nine plans are a way
to set aside funds to pay for college,
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et cetera, for children, grandchildren, et cetera. As in the
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past. Tuition as in past,
five twenty nine plans can be used to
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pay for tuition at accredited private public
colleges, universities, community college, trade
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school, graduate schools, professional schools, wherever those happen to be in the
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United States. Additionally, for students
who are in college, you can use
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your five twenty nine plans to pay
for things like books and supplies, computers,
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software, internet access, room and
board, at least if you're half
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if there halftime student and special needs
equipment. Now, in addition, over
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the last few years, some changes
to five twenty nine plans have now allowed
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up to ten thousand dollars of money
in a five to twenty nine plan to
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be used to pay off a student's
student loans, So that can be helpful
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in using the money for that as
well as well as you can use up
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to ten thousand dollars to be paying
towards the cost of tuition at K through
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twelve schools. So maybe you've got
a child, a grandchild who's in private
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school K through twelve, you can
you can put a five twenty nine plan
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together use up to ten thousand dollars
to pay for that K through twelve tuition.
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But the change, the change that's
occurring in twenty twenty four has to
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do. It's a result of the
Secure Act. Don't worry about what that
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stands for. But the change due
to the Secure Act is now in twenty
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two twenty four, amounts that are
sitting in those five twenty nine plans can
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be rolled over. So if they're
not used for tuition, they're not used
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for college, they're not used for
cost of higher education, you still have
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money sitting in those plans, they
can be rolled over into a ROTH IRA
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for the beneficiary of the five to
twenty nine plan. Now, there are
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some limits on it. One of
the limits is that the beneficiary has to
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have owned the IRA for at least
fifteen years. So if you've got a
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child out there who's got an IRA
and they've had the IRA for at least
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fifteen years, that would be eligible
to roll over unused funds that are in
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the five twenty nine plan. You
cannot exceed in any one year the ROTH
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contribution limit for that year. So
if you look at the ROTH contribution limit
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and if at seven thousand dollars this
year, that means you can't roll over
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more than seven thousand dollars in twenty
twenty four. The beneficiary will also have
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to have earned income at least to
the at least equal to the amount that
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you are rolling over, and currently
there is a thirty five thousand dollars lifetime
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limits. However, for some clients
the ability to roll over some of those
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unused funds because in the past,
the option was, well, we're done
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with college, We've got money sitting
in this account. If I take the
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money out, I'm going to have
a ten percent penalty on it. You
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now have the ability to roll over
some of those funds potentially into a rough
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ray and avoid the ten percent penalty
that would be assessed on taking the funds
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out, as well as the taxable
consequence of taking the funds out. Michigan,
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let's talk about something specific with Michigan. There's a couple of areas that
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I want to at least bring to
your attention. In the probate world,
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when we're looking at probating the estates, we look at having under the probate
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code what are called statutory allowances,
and those are things like the family allowance,
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spousal allowance, and the exact property
allowance. Those are certain amounts that
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the probate Code recognizes are distributed out
out from an estate before we actually get
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to distributing the balance of the estate. Those allowance amounts will go up in
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twenty twenty four. Every year the
Michigan Department of Treasury issues its new regulations
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indicating what those amounts are going to
be for twenty twenty four. And the
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other amount that will be going up
in twenty twenty four is once you get
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pass those allowances, if you have
an estate that's going to a spouse.
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There's a certain amount of the estate, what is the spousal share that they
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are allowed to reach. See perhaps
before other people are going to receive it.
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Maybe that's going to be children,
step children, or children and parents,
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and that amount of that spousal share
will also be increasing in twenty twenty
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four. Again, those are non
amounts that you plan for. Those are
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simply amounts that are going to be
effective when we are looking at probating states.
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The big change though, in Michigan, that's going to be coming,
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and we're not exactly sure what's going
to end up resulting. It is.
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On November seventh, twenty twenty three, the governor signed a new statute,
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and under that statute, Michigan adopted
what is called the Uniform Power of Attorney
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Act. The purpose of the Uniform
Power of Attorney Act is to try and
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create powers of attorney that are uniformed
throughout the country so they can be used
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as you move from state to state. But we we adopted this new statute,
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it does not become effective until July
one, twenty twenty four, so
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it's not effective right now. It's
not applying right now. Under the new
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statute, though, there are going
to be some changes to the requirements in
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order for a durable power of attorney
to be what we call durable and durable
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under a durable power attorney means that
it would continue to be effective relative to
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your named agent even if you become
incapacitated, and that, quite frankly,
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is the reason most clients have durable
powers of attorney is they want something to
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be in place that if they become
incapacitated, that their agent can manage their
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business for them. So there's going
to be some changes in the requirements that
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make durable powers of an attorney durable. There's also some changes in the statutory
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requirements of what sort of acknowledgments have
to be in the durable power of attorney
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that your agent is going to have
to understand and agree to. There's actually
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under the statute a form for these
new uniform powers of attorney that are going
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to be where attorneys are obviously at
our stage working on how do we take
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our current existing powers of attorney and
adapt all of those to the new statute.
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But the question, the unknown,
the uncertainty, is this, how
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are your banks and your financial institutions
going to treat your existing powers of attorney.
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You already have an existing power of
attorney. It doesn't become invalid simply
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because of the new statute, because
it was created before the statute existed.
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But it is unclear now how banks
and financial institutions are going to treat those
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existing powers of attorney. Are they
going to allow them to be used,
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or are they going to insist that
they will only recognize powers of attorney as
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of July first, twenty twenty four
that are created and executed under the new
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statute. This is similar to a
problem that we ran into with banks and
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financial institutions the last time powers of
attorney were changed, where we had to
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start adding acknowledgments of responsibility to them. Banks and financial institutions began rejecting the
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use of a power of attorney that
did not have an acknowledgment of responsibility section,
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even though the statute said that powers
of attorney that were in existence before
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that statute took effect were still legally
valid. As a practical matter, we're
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running into our clients were ringing into
with banks and their financial institutions simply refusing
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to accept them so between now and
July which suggests that you consider when you're
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at your bank or at your credit
union, or you're talking to your financial
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advisor or working with a financial institution. Now's the time to start checking with
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them to find out are they going
to be willing to accept your existing power
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of attorney if it is ever needed
to be used there and if not,
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need to start looking at between now
and July first, once we have decided
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our lawyers have determined what these new
powers of attorney are going to look at
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to having updated powers of attorney in
place for you. So I kind of
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went through things fairly quickly, but
that's the summary of what I see are
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the most important legal updates that are
facing us in twenty twenty four again,
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Federal estate tax, Federal gift tax, IRA contributions for one five twenty nine
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plans, and what you can now
do to roll those funds over in under
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Michigan probate cord statutory allowances, and
the spousal share under interstate succession. But
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probably the biggest one that's going to
impact most of you is really going to
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be because of Michigan's adoption of the
new Uniform Power of Attorney Act. As
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always, if you have any questions
about these changes, how they might be
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impacting your estate plan, or if
you haven't put together in a state plan
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or you're looking at having to amend
the plan that you already have. As
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always a man and I would be
honored to have the opportunity to help you,
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either by putting together in a state
plan that you don't have, or
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perhaps amending an existing plan, or
assisting you and settling an estate. Again,
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simply go our website Doyle APC dot
com. There you will find information
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on how you can schedule either virtual
consultations those will be by zoom or telephone
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wherever you happen to be in this
great state of Michigan, as well as
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in person consultations if that's what you
would like to have at our East Lancing
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office. Again too, don't forget
that we have the legal Store at the
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website doylel ATPC dot com. And
through the legal Store you are able to
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order individual documents, perhaps just a
new healthcare power of attorney. You can
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order that all online and have it
prepared and delivered to you online as well.
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Well. That I think is going
to be it for today's show.
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And as always, ooh, if
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