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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...