If the retirement funds are in a pre-tax account, then the typical advice is not to put them into a trust because of potentially problematic tax consequences. There is no need to do so anyway, since the purpose of a revocable trust is to avoid probate and the retirement accounts will have a nominated secondary beneficiary (of your daughter if your spouse dies) which means they don’t go through probate anyway. So the main assets in the trust would be the $125K of brokerage accounts plus your home assuming you own it. I’m not sure whether this is the type of trust that needs to be declared on CSS.
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