There are few parts of the law quite as fraught as succession. As the great wealth transfer gets under way, wrangling about who gets what is tearing families apart Get our breaking news email, free ...

20:16, Sun, Feb 15, 2026 Updated: 20:25, Sun, Feb 15, 2026 Money expert Martin Lewis has given a cast iron rule that will allow people to avoid all inheritance tax legally. The Money Saving Expert ...

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 ...

Every $100,000 inherited could generate $10,000 annually for life through smart investing, yet most Australians squander this life-changing opportunity on home upgrades, writes Ben Nash. When you ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Carmen Thomas was growing up in Boston, her mom told her that her absent dad’s name was Joe Brown. So when she sent a saliva sample to 23andMe in her 20s and got a match with a Brown, she was ...