Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in Connecticut

Ira

Who would be the heir to an IRA acc't in

a situation where the parents were

never married and there was no

designation of an heir on the IRA acc't.

Would the daughter inherit from her

deceased father or would the IRA be

given to the estate heirs to be

distributed as stipulated in a will not

mentioning the IRA account. The

contract in the IRA acc't states that the

IRA money should go to the spouse and

then the child, but since there was no

marriage is this still true?


Asked on 1/02/07, 5:00 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
John Heffernan Heffernan Legal Group, LLP

Re: Ira

If the father had acknowledged (formally) the child, then, assuming the language in the IRA contract is as you say, the children (all of them) should take equally.

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Answered on 1/03/07, 3:32 pm


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