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Americans pay taxes throughout their lives. They may think they're done once they die. Not so. An estate tax can still be levied on things the deceased owned or had certain interests in when they die.

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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 ...

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 ...

I have been managing my widowed mother’s finances for the past few years. She is 90 years old and her trust consists of a home, an IRA that I am trying to gradually wind down over the next five years, ...

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 ...

Ruby is an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text files and to do system management tasks (as in Perl). It is simple, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...