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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.,

It’s vitally important for everyone to have a plan for their estate, but in the absence of a well-crafted plan, women can be affected more

Think about the information you store online. There’s the Pinterest page where you keep a collection of family recipes, the Instagram account where you keep

When people think of estate planning, it is generally thought of only being needed by the ultra-wealthy. Actually though, this isn’t the case. Whether people

At Pretty Thrifty, an Eagle River consignment shop, owner Christy Carter helps client Bonny Stark unpack a set of hand-painted china. Stark has had it

Whenever clients ask if they need to update their will or trust, the first question back to them is: “When was it created?” If they

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

Bobby Brown and Pat Houston will be co-guardians for Bobbi Kristina Brown. Their attorneys said in a statement Friday that Bobby Brown and the sister-in-law

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

Rubin Frels is considered by some as the "godfather of movies in South Texas." His parents met at the Theatre Victoria, built in 1913. Frels