Dear Eric: I have several siblings. Our mom always showed blatant unapologetic favoritism toward her oldest and youngest children, for no apparent reason. Mom passed away recently. She left a sizable ...

Inheritance is one of the last reliable ways for younger Californians to own their first home. About 18% of all property transfers in the state last year, representing nearly 60,000 homes, were made ...

While Grim Reaper guides you to the afterlife, Uncle Sam will be escorting your heirs to the IRS. Death can be a tax-triggering event, with two in particular you should be aware of: the estate tax and ...

Inheritance and estate taxes—sometimes dubbed “death taxes”—remain one of the most uneven features of the American tax system. While federal rules shield the vast majority of families from paying ...

Money drives people nuts. So can families. Together they are combustible, need and greed mixing with primal resentments and rivalries. This is why, like the “marriage plot”, the inheritance plot is ...

The widow and two daughters of LG’s former chairman sought to invalidate an inheritance agreement, claiming they were deceived into forfeiting their rightful inheritance. By Daisuke Wakabayashi and ...

Jeffrey Epstein identified people who would inherit his $630 million fortune in a secret document. The document shows that ex-girlfriend Karyna Shuliak would get $100 million and all his properties.

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 ...

Pension savers are being encouraged to switch beneficiaries on their pension paperwork now to protect their retirement pot from inheritance tax for the next 16 months. When someone starts saving into ...

America’s adult children say they are ready to manage that inheritance now. Their parents might disagree. A report from Fidelity Investments sheds new light on an estate-planning generation gap. Aging ...