Clark v. Rameker

Clark v. Rameker
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 12, 2014
Full case name	Clark v. Rameker
Citations	573 U.S. 122 (more)
Holding
Funds held in inherited Individual Retirement Accounts are not "retirement funds" and are not exempt from the bankruptcy estate.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan
Case opinion
Majority	Sotomayor, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
11 U.S.C. § 522(b)(3)(c)

Clark v. Rameker, 573 U.S. 122 (2014), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that funds held in inherited Individual Retirement Accounts are not "retirement funds" within the meaning of 11 U.S.C. § 522(b)(3)(c) and therefore not exempt from the bankruptcy estate.^[1][2]

References

1. Clark v. Rameker, 573 U.S. 122 (2014).
2. "Asset protection of retirement funds after Clark". Journal of Accountancy. 2014-10-01. Retrieved 2024-11-05.

External links

• Text of Clark v. Rameker, 573 U.S. 122 (2014) is available from: Cornell Findlaw Justia

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