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Retirement tax questions
If your spouse was taking distributions under the 10-year rule, you simply continue to take the RMDs that your spouse would have been required to take had your spouse not died. The end of the 10-year period does not change, so the inherited IRA would need to be fully drained by the end of 2032.
If your spouse was instead an Eligible Designated Beneficiary not subject to the 10-year rule (I think that that might be what you are saying), you continue to take the annual beneficiary RMDs that your spouse would have been required to take had your spouse not died, but you are also subject to the 10-year rule beginning with 2026 and the IRA must be fully drained by the end of 2035.
(The answer provided by @DianeW777 does not apply to a successor beneficiary such as yourself.)