Dear Liz: Our dad is 93 and has a reverse mortgage on his house, where he lived until recently with my brother and my brother’s friend. In August, we had to move Dad into assisted living. Shortly ...

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 ...

Holly covers personal finance topics from credit cards to wills. She enjoys turning complex money matters into clear, practical advice. Whether it’s totting up tax bills or dealing with disputes over ...

House Bill 2445 would curb ‘probates for profit’ by tightening court appointment rules. Reforms limit repeat appointees, bars recent felons and mandates local venue. Bill requires heir notice within ...

Dozens of members of the Ming family were sentenced in September No-one should be surprised that China has swiftly executed the 11 members of an organised crime family from north-eastern Myanmar who ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an expert in the fields of ...