More families are setting up trusts to avoid paying inheritance tax, figures from HMRC suggest. Around 121,000 trusts were registered in the 2024-25 tax year, up from 115,000 the year before, taking ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

OpenJDK project teams will focus work on features such as value types, code reflection, AOT compilation, and structured concurrency in the coming year. Oracle’s Java team in 2026 will work toward ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Just two-thirds of parents age 55 or older with at least $500,000 in investable assets haven't shared with their grown children what they'll inherit or if they'll inherit anything at all, according to ...