Unless you have gifted more than $13.61 million over your lifetime, you can almost certainly give a $50,000 down payment to your daughter or other family member and not owe gift taxes in 2024.

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For me, the Caesar is more than a salad, it’s family. My dad — who had worked at the Hotel Caesar, where the salad was born — came to Christmas one year and showed me how to make the ...

My adult son barely calls or visits anymore, and when he does, he seems distracted and impatient. I raised him with love and ...

Anyway, she’s been asking me to call her “Mom.” As I am extremely close to my own mother, I’m just not comfortable with this. For now, I pretty much never call her anything!

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On this edition of The Gift, our gifts expert shares the goodies she’s eyeing for her own adult Easter basket. Plus: the best boxed cake mix. Filling my kids’ Easter baskets every year has ...

MISS CONDUCT None of my friends got me a housewarming gift. Is it because I’m single? I feel like they don’t care, even though I’ve celebrated their milestones countless times.

Dear Annie: My adult son barely calls or visits anymore, and when he does, he seems distracted and impatient. I raised him ...