The widow and two daughters of LG’s former chairman sought to invalidate an inheritance agreement, claiming they were deceived into forfeiting their rightful inheritance. By Daisuke Wakabayashi and ...

More families are setting up trusts to avoid paying inheritance tax, figures from HMRC suggest. Around 121,000 trusts were registered in the 2024-25 tax year, up from 115,000 the year before, taking ...

Dear Eric: My husband and I have been married 31 years. We each have two children of our own. They are all grown. His boys have different mothers; I raised one and helped with the younger one. As soon ...

This cultural and political opposition to inheritance may be increasingly popular, but it is poisonous. Inheritance is how societies compound the achievements of past generations, preserving ...

My husband and I have been together for 25 years. We have two children, a son and a daughter, and we are looking forward to upgrading from our current home. We’re in our 50s and will probably get $1 ...

America’s adult children say they are ready to manage that inheritance now. Their parents might disagree. A report from Fidelity Investments sheds new light on an estate-planning generation gap. Aging ...

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When Carmen Thomas was growing up in Boston, her mom told her that her absent dad’s name was Joe Brown. So when she sent a saliva sample to 23andMe in her 20s and got a match with a Brown, she was ...

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 ...

Switzerland, long a haven for the ultra-rich, voted to reject a hefty tax on large inheritances on Sunday. But the debate around it shook the country's affluent residents, an expert told CNBC before ...