https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/retirement/discussion/is-a-trust-required-to-take-a-rmd-from-an-inherited-ira-husband-is-trustee-deceased-wife-would-have/01/145195#M11187 Sat, 01 Jun 2019 07:28:27 GMT lodierno 2019-06-01T07:28:27Z https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/retirement/discussion/is-a-trust-required-to-take-a-rmd-from-an-inherited-ira-husband-is-trustee-deceased-wife-would-have/01/145195#M11187 Sat, 01 Jun 2019 07:28:27 GMT https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/retirement/discussion/is-a-trust-required-to-take-a-rmd-from-an-inherited-ira-husband-is-trustee-deceased-wife-would-have/01/145195#M11187 lodierno 2019-06-01T07:28:27Z https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/retirement/discussion/yes-the-trust-is-required-to-take-rmds-and-will-be-based/01/145206#M11188 <P>Yes, the trust is required to take RMDs and will be based on the wife's life expectancy.</P><P>Note that, depending on the circumstances, it may be possible for the IRA to be transferred out of the trust an rolled over to an IRA owned by the surviving spouse:</P><P> <A href="https://www.irahelp.com/slottreport/irs-allows-spouses-roll-inherited-iras-through-own-trusts-their-iras" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.irahelp.com/slottreport/irs-allows-spouses-roll-inherited-iras-through-own-trusts-their-...</A> <BR /> </P> Sat, 01 Jun 2019 07:28:30 GMT https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/retirement/discussion/yes-the-trust-is-required-to-take-rmds-and-will-be-based/01/145206#M11188 dmertz 2019-06-01T07:28:30Z