Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Marguerita is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP), Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor ...

You are an heir. In Texas, the value of that is exactly zero unless you have a relative who conveniently dies with probate assets that are not disposed of by a will. We call those types of relatives ...

A change to Pennsylvania law taking effect Jan. 23, will end a decades-old practice that directed the estates of ...

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I am not an expert on Zen Buddhism. However, even if I had spent decades of my life studying its tenets (instead of, for example, baseball stats from the 1920’s), I would hesitate to call myself an ...