A commonly recommended way to reduce inheritance tax (IHT) is to make lifetime gifts. In simple terms, if you survive for seven years after the gift is given, it’s usually excluded from your estate ...

It’s a question many remarried couples face: If one spouse passes away, what happens to the inheritance if there are children from a previous marriage? Imagine Tammy, 55, and her husband Bill, 60.

Boomers are leaving behind decades of accumulated clutter for their heirs to manage Charlotte Lytton is a freelance journalist who has worked in newsrooms from London to New York. She began writing ...

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We often frame conversations about intergenerational wealth transfer in terms of numbers and planning documents — an almost exclusively adult perspective. But the reality is that many young people are ...

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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 ...

As the largest-ever intergenerational wealth transfer unfolds, family lawyers are sounding the alarm about a costly misconception: many assume their inheritance is automatically protected from divorce ...