dmertz
Level 15

Retirement tax questions

You are not permitted to have rolled this distribution over to your own 401(k) account.  Doing so likely constitutes a failed rollover, a taxable distribution from your father's 401(k) and and an excess contribution to your own 401(k).  The only permissible rollover was a direct rollover to an inherited traditional or Roth IRA for your benefit, but that apparently is not what happened.