Articles Tagged with Annuities

Change in Lifestyle? Change Your Beneficiaries, Too!

Published on: December 15, 2015 | By McCulloch & Miller, PLLC

Naming a beneficiary for your IRA, 401(k) or any other retirement plan and then making sure that the name is right as you go through the many stages of life could be one of the most important financial decisions you make, according to The (Crystal Lake, IL) Northwest Herald in "Rectifying the retirement minefield."

Of course, if you want to give your retirement savings to your first husband, he won't mind. But your second husband might!

If you're married, you'll want to designate your spouse as the primary beneficiary. Federal law requires your surviving spouse to be the primary beneficiary in employer-sponsored retirement plans, like a 401(k), unless your spouse signs a written waiver letting you name someone else as the primary beneficiary. In most cases, spouses will name each other as the primary beneficiaries to their retirement plans. Those funds help maintain the lifestyle they've enjoyed in their marriage.

Retirement Planning Mishaps Can Impact Houston Seniors

Published on: April 27, 2015 | By McCulloch & Miller, PLLC

Here are a few of the most common mistakes we’ve seen seniors make in regard to their retirement planning.

Sometimes knowing what NOT to do is just as important as knowing what to do. So it is with retirement planning.

Physician’s Money Digest lists some of the most common mistakes that the authors have seen seniors make in a recent article titled “Top Mistakes Seniors Make”: