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IRA and 401K Withdrawals Made Easier During COVID-19

Titan Consulting

Key Takeaways. The CARES Act relaxes rules and restriction for individuals that need to access cash in their IRAs or 401-K retirement plans. If you qualify, you can withdraw funds from your IRA without paying the 10% penalty, so long as you redeposit the funds within three years. You can also stretch the time, up to three years, that you must pay the normal income tax due on the withdrawal.

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Trust Fall: If You Haven’t Already, Now Would Be a Good Time to Automate Your Trust Account Management

NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

Law firms put themselves through some interesting gymnastics in order to reconcile trust accounting, well or poorly – mostly poorly. There’s a couple of reasons for that: (1) Lawyers are pretty bad at math, finance. That’ s definitely a thing. (2) Also, law firms tend not to focus on utilizing technology throughout the trust account management process, and errors tend to occur when busy lawyers (or their staff) use analog methods to try to balance accounts, or review account balances.