Receiving an inheritance, whether it’s money or property, can have tax implications dependent on the amount you’re inheriting and the state you live in. There are four primary taxes to be aware of ...

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 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 ...

Matthew López felt detached. While reading E. M. Forster’s classic novel, Howard’s End, in New York’s Central Park several years ago, the Tony award-winning playwright was inspired to write his own ...

Lyle and Erik Menendez have been serving life sentences for the brutal murders of their parents, José and Kitty Menendez, who were shot and killed in the family’s Beverly Hills mansion on August 20, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Lawyers have revealed the top three reasons families go to war over inheritance as worsening ...

Brits worried about looming inheritance tax bills brought on by Rachel Reeves’ Budget changes are turning to a special type of insurance to pay the cost. But the cover – which can run to thousands of ...

Mother, your hair has fallen for the last time, and I can’t raise it up. And I can’t put it down. I can’t leave it on the ground. The ground is too crowded with the living, too teeming with the dead.

In Oscar Wilde’s celebrated 1895 comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest, one of the protagonists famously asserts, “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy.” This is obviously ...

In 1982, neurologist Francisco Lopera and his colleagues at the University of Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia, began studying a family for whom Alzheimer’s disease was a fact of life. Members of this ...