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Picture this — a frantic call to the family lawyer by a recent widow we’ll call Fran. Fran had just learned that her deceased husband

A bar owner who never attended college has left $200,000 to the alma mater of her best customers. Ida F. Meyer of Lake Placid, Fla.,

When Craig Evans Carnick accompanied his wife of 46 years to a medical procedure recently, he got a bit of a surprise when he asked

There was one estate planner who had a stroke of marketing brilliance a long time ago. He or she decided that we should call death

A watershed demographic event occurred in the past few years, although without much notice: For the first time in U.S. history, there are more people

Money isn’t everything, but it keeps the kids in touch. Though I say that jokingly, I do want you to take estate planning seriously. Most

“Planning for death is a morbid thing to do,” admits Kelli Gardner, an estate attorney in Portsmouth. “People don’t like to deal with unpleasant things.”

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Fewer estates are subjected to the federal estate tax than ever before. The Brookings Institute estimates that only 1 in 700 taxpayers end up paying

The House voted last week to repeal the estate tax, a longtime priority of Republicans that also spurred Democratic charges that the GOP is in

A Brooklyn woman scammed $300,000 from her friends by telling them she had inherited a boatload of cash but needed their dough to pay off

When Twisted Sister drummer AJ Pero died on March 20, it caught his fans and bandmates by surprise — and Pero’s own lack of estate