Ed Lyon, a pioneering urologist at the University of Chicago, wanted his retirement account to go to his 36 grandchildren. Seven years after his death, his heirs are still fighting to make that happen ...

May 3 (Asia Today) --The family of Lee Jae-yong has completed payment of about 12 trillion won ($8.1 billion) in inheritance taxes over five years, marking the largest such payment in South Korean ...

Benjamin Franklin referred to death and taxes as "the only certainties in life." And the inheritance tax touches on both. It's a levy on money, property or other assets a person leaves to others after ...

Is it legal to deposit a large cash inheritance — say, $150,000 — into a bank? The money is not currently in a bank account and it is not part of an estate — let’s assume it’s just cash in an envelope ...

Inheritance disputes within families have jumped in recent years due to changes in how and where we live, according to lawyers, who warned of the urgent need for people to get their affairs in order ...

Inheritance tax is the gift that keeps on giving to the chancellor but for families mourning loved ones it can be a complicated minefield to get right at an already difficult time, with an avalanche ...

The widow and two daughters of LG’s former chairman sought to invalidate an inheritance agreement, claiming they were deceived into forfeiting their rightful inheritance. By Daisuke Wakabayashi and ...

From the Department of Bizarre Anomalies: Microsoft has suppressed an unexplained anomaly on its network that was routing traffic destined to example.com—a domain reserved for testing purposes—to a ...

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 ...

Lucy Lazarony is an experienced personal finance journalist and writer who got her start in 1998 writing about financial topics. She writes accessible and easy-to-understand articles about credit, ...

An inheritance can feel like both a blessing and a challenge. While it may provide new opportunities for financial security, it also brings complex choices about taxes, investments, and long-term ...