Financial planning means giving thought to how you want to manage your investments and other assets during your lifetime. But it also means taking a longer view and considering what will happen to ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of an Illinois CPA Society committee, and has a ...

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 ...

Our legal system provides for freedom of testation, which means that a person writing their will can provide for the distribution of their estate among friends, family, spouses and charities as they ...

Question: There has been a lot of advertising for wills lately. My husband says it is just a money-making racket for lawyers to get fees. Is a will really necessary? Answer: We all have a will by ...

UNSW Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Actor Chadwick Boseman, star of Marvel’s Black Panther, died in 2020 aged 43 from colon cancer. It came to light last month his estate ...

Few people like to face their own mortality, and new research from the National Wills Register reveals that approximately 47% of UK adults, over 32 million people, do not have a will. “Do I need a ...