Because of my brother's delinquent tax and student-loan issues, I have been named sole heir and executor of my parents' estate. Baby brother expects me to administer the estate and give him his half ...

'I am pretty much uninsurable': My 20-year term life insurance is up, but I was diagnosed with throat cancer. Do I renew it? 'The annual premiums were a couple hundred dollars. The term is up and the ...

We have $30,000 left on our $400,000 mortgage, which we took out three years after we married. In the current market, it appraises for $800,000. After the birth of our first child 12 years ago, I ...

At 57, the rule of thumb suggests that your husband should have roughly 43% of his investments in stocks, and the rest in bonds and other safer havens to shield him from a downturn in the market in ...

Along with this more than fivefold increase in billion-dollar disasters came rising insurance costs - exacerbated by weather disasters striking densely populated areas more frequently, the rising ...

Many homeowners now choose to go skip insurance altogether, owing to the difficulty of obtaining coverage at all or even at a reasonable price. Insurance coverage has been diminishing in many respects ...

In contrast, mass deportations of undocumented immigrants would tank the U.S. economy. If President Donald Trump can limit himself to booting criminals and those under existing deportation orders, and ...

Consider the junk-bond spread, which is the additional yield above ultra-safe U.S. Treasury bonds that investors demand for incurring the risk of high-yield, or "junk" bonds. Nowadays they're not ...

Another seasonal trend is the four-year U.S. presidential cycle. In general, the market rises modestly in the first year after a presidential election, followed by trouble in the second year. In years ...

People will spend an average of $290 on filing their tax returns this year, according to IRS estimates. Individuals will pay $160 on average for tax prep, while the typical business owner will pay ...

He is disabled and on Medicare because of multiple organ transplants - two livers and a kidney - but his wife is employed. Just last week he fell again at home, and this time the pain was so great he ...

'My son is hurt, to say the least, that she is acting this way' ...