On Reddit, a woman explained why she decided to deposit her inheritance check into a different account than her joint account with her husband. "[Me and my] husband have been married since my senior ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

If you just lost a loved one, you’re probably focused on dealing with your loss instead of what to do with an inheritance. But at some point, you’ll need to figure out a plan for the money and/or ...

HOUSTON -- A year ago Monday, a robbery victim, who asks we call him 'Joe' for his own safety, lost his mother. He recently received an inheritance check, which he went to cash at a check cashing ...

I understand that, in a divorce, a spouse is not entitled to money that their spouse inherited if those funds were not commingled in a joint account. I’m in a situation where my wife inherited money ...

Over the next 20 years or so, older Americans are set to pass down an estimated $84 trillion in assets in what’s known as the ...