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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This cultural and political opposition to inheritance may be increasingly popular, but it is poisonous. Inheritance is how societies compound the achievements of past generations, preserving ...

The first two premieres of the 13th Prototype Festival (running through Jan. 18) were by and about women. That’s appropriate, given that this is the 20th anniversary of Beth Morrison Projects, whose ...

Nahda Nabiilah is a writer and editor from Indonesia. She has always loved writing and playing games, so one day she decided to combine the two. Most of the time, writing gaming guides is a blast for ...

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 ...

Money passed down with good intentions can still create conflict, confusion and long-lasting family tension. In this episode of Celebrity Estates, estate planning attorney Don D. Ford III joins the ...

Why it matters: JavaScript was officially unveiled in 1995 and now powers the overwhelming majority of the modern web, as well as countless server and desktop projects. The language is one of the core ...

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 ...

Switzerland, long a haven for the ultra-rich, voted to reject a hefty tax on large inheritances on Sunday. But the debate around it shook the country's affluent residents, an expert told CNBC before ...