When you die, estate planners say, one of the finest gifts you can leave your heirs is a plan for avoiding probate. Probate is a legal process that distributes a dead person’s assets and settles their ...

Dear Eric: My husband and I have been married 31 years. We each have two children of our own. They are all grown. His boys have different mothers; I raised one and helped with the younger one. As soon ...

This cultural and political opposition to inheritance may be increasingly popular, but it is poisonous. Inheritance is how societies compound the achievements of past generations, preserving ...

My husband and I have been together for 25 years. We have two children, a son and a daughter, and we are looking forward to upgrading from our current home. We’re in our 50s and will probably get $1 ...

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NIBLEY, Cache County – Utahns are receiving messages and letters about unclaimed money from a deceased relative, or at the very least, someone who shares their last name. But it's an inheritance scam ...

Legal experts are weighing in on the fate of Nick Reiner's inheritance, now that he has been formally charged with the murder of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner. According to estate and trusts ...

Rob Reiner’s son Nick Reiner was likely set to inherit millions from his famous father, but legal experts explain to Us that he won’t see a dime following his arrest for murder. Former federal ...

In photographer Catherine Opie’s intimate series of images from inside Elizabeth Taylor’s home, one holds unexpected wisdom for jewelry collectors. A stack of boxes —mostly, it appears, for necklaces ...

A Massachusetts woman gained two long-lost sisters through a DNA test — then tried to net a fortune when she sued them a month later over a malpractice settlement involving their dad. Carmen Thomas, ...

THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS, the youth wing of Switzerland’s Social Democratic Party, do not have any MPs in parliament, but they know how to make a stir. On November 30th the country held a referendum on ...