My father-in-law lives several hours away from us. He has mid-stage dementia; he is a "sundowner" - as the day progresses, he increasingly forgets where he is and how he got there (he is in his home ...

Problems with S elections frequently cause them to be invalid when made or to terminate. This article discusses four of the ...

Properly established and maintained, an incomplete gift nongrantor trust may play a valuable role in some clients’ estate ...

In this week's edition of On Racing, Jay Hovdey reflects on the life and career of Christophe Clement, who died May 25.

It's easy to focus on your son-in-law and obsess about what could happen if they divorced. You obviously don't want him to walk away with your daughter's inheritance, but a generous and sensible ...

Dear Quentin, My life partner of 17 years and I want to create wills. He has two financially unstable adult children. I have ...

A practicing lawyer who wrote his crime fiction on his daily commute into London, Michael Gilbert was at his peak when ...

"This article will discuss a proposed statute to apply a no-contest or in terrorem clause to trusts. It will also discuss a ...

Only a handful of states levy an inheritance tax, but it’s important to understand how it works and how it differs from the ...

The core duties of a personal representative (PR) are to collect and manage the estate’s assets, settle the deceased’s debts ...

As the world was readying for the Second World War, the insightful humane Austrian author Stefan Zweig made the following ...

A quarter of the Rich List derived their wealth from inheritance, reflecting a wider shift as Australians start to transfer a ...