THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS, the youth wing of Switzerland’s Social Democratic Party, do not have any MPs in parliament, but they know how to make a stir. On November 30th the country held a referendum on ...

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, ...

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate Television is expanding its young adult content, optioning Jennifer Lynn Barnes’ bestselling book series The Inheritance Games for development as a scripted series. The project ...

A lesser-known inheritance tax loophole is allowing families to save significantly on their IHT bills – and financial advisers say they are using it with more clients than ever since chancellor Rachel ...

A Reddit poster wants to retain control over an inheritance they expect to receive. They want to know what happens if they put it into a savings account and use the interest for household expenses.

Marriage is supposed to be about uniting not just a couple, but their families (barring the obvious exceptions, like when the in-laws are monsters). But what are the limits, if any, of this loyalty?

Government plans to make inheritance tax due on pensions, plus other changes to IHT rules, have seen a leap in people enquiring about the use of trusts to protect their wealth. So what are trusts, and ...

There are two entirely reasonable responses to this. One is to worry about the new inheritocracy harming society: how it could corrode incentives to work, say, or widen inequality and distort the ...

Inheritance and estate taxes, often referred to as "death taxes," vary significantly across the United States. Federal estate taxes apply only to the wealthy, with estates exceeding $13.61 million in ...

This Reddit user is weighing how to put their coming $80k inheritance to work. Should retirement, college, or something else take precedence? Are you ahead, or behind on retirement? SmartAsset’s free ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ashley L. Case, J.D., LL.M., writes about tax and estate planning. Few things can complicate the otherwise straightforward matter ...