U.S. housing starts retreat in September, dragging down U.S. growth
admin The numbers: Construction on new U.S. homes fell a seasonally adjusted 8.1% in September to…
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‘We have no children’: My attorney says avoid probate. Should I put my $850K estate in a trust, and split it between family and charity?
Dear Quentin, My husband and I are in our early 40s, and we recently met…
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Lane, 44, lives with her husband, an art director, and four children in Harrisburg, Pa.…
Read MoreFewer than 50% of U.S. adults are now married. It’s time to give more legal and financial breaks to single people, law professor says.
The share of married Americans has fallen to 45%, down from 50% in 2015. At…
Read More‘I grew up an only child’: My father wants me to inherit the family home, but my late mother also had a son from her first marriage. Are we doing the right thing?
Dear Quentin, My mother and father were married for almost 60 years, and my mother…
Read MoreRecall: Family Dollar shoppers should check toothpaste, condoms, pregnancy tests
This is nothing to smile about. Family Dollar recently issued a voluntary product recall of…
Read MoreMy mother’s husband has two children. What happens to my inheritance if my mother dies first? Will my stepfather’s family inherit money from her estate?
Dear Moneyist, My mother is married to her second husband who has two adult children…
Read MorePaintings by college-age Andy Warhol put on auction block by Warhola family
A selection of Andy Warhol’s earliest paintings that have been kept in his family for…
Read More‘She’s going to spend every nickel’: My grandmother inherited $250K. She promised to buy stuff for all our family. How do I stop her wasting her good fortune?
My great-grandmother recently passed, and while she did not have much, her home just sold…
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‘We will not outlive our money’: How can we give $10,000 to our nieces and nephews without offending the rest of the family?
My husband and I learned that we had accumulated a sufficiently large nest egg and…
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