Estate Planning News

"You could be a 40-year common-law couple and [if ] one of you dies, the other gets nothing," Catherine Watson Things have changed in the world of financial planning in Canada since 1999, when it joined a handful of countries that recognized same-sex unions and, later, marriages.

"You wouldn't have known Virgil Benedict Harrigan was a millionaire. The longtime Roseville resident didn't drive flashy cars, and his golf clubs were at least 10 years old.

Curry Glassell, the daughter of oilman and arts benefactor Alfred Glassell, is disputing his last will in a high-profile Houston court battle that will have serious consequences for Houston's arts groups as well as for the Glassell family.

In the beginning of October, the LaSalle Hospital Foundation received two generous gifts.

Many business owners don't think about estate planning and fail to plan properly.

When Ginnie and Alan wrote me in early 2009, they were feeling nervous about their portfolio's ability to last through what they hoped would be a long and fruitful retirement.

An individual can gift $13,000 per beneficiary per year without incurring gift tax liability.

Tips on Retirement and Estate Planning >> Posted By SenorCoconut 3 hours, 8 minutes ago in Business & Finance Accumulating assets is often the main focus of retirement planning, but there's another subject you'll want to address: estate planning, which is essentially a plan for what will happen to your assets once you die.

Attorney Bob D. Hinnenthal was sworn in as the new Brown County Attorney at the courthouse Monday morning.

Healthy Fast Food announces appointment of Phil deMena as vice president of real estate.

New Kensington businessman and philanthropist Charles H. Booth Jr. is suing the estate of his dead attorney for alleged errors made in documents intended to protect Booth's estate from federal taxes.

A glittering Elvis jacket, a Mighty Mouse figure, a wrestling belt for the self-proclaimed "World Intergender Wrestling Champion" - these were a few of Andy Kaufman's favorite things, and they now reside in a lovely, quintessentially suburban home in Wayne.

In honor of last week being National Estate Planning Awareness Week, USA Today ran an article setting out to dispel five myths about wills: Estate Planning is for the rich : Not true.

Nearly 60 percent of Americans don't have a basic will. There are all kinds of reasons for this oversight.

Same-sex couples face many financial planning issues that married couples do not.

In the past, benefiting from an estate was generally a reactive status. More stories are surfacing, however, indicating proactive approaches being used to gain control of estates. Nefarious deeds are nothing new to inheritance tales, but the bold sense of entitlement accompanying today's acts illustrate America's further progression into becoming the Land of the Gimme-Gimmes and the Home of the I-Want-Mores. Looking at cases from Ohio, Maryland, Kansas and Florida, the lengths to which people will go to acquire the assets of others literally have no physical or moral bounds.

As we all know, Michael Jackson died this past summer. Although the stories of his unusual lifestyle and abuses have flooded the media, it appears that his estate plan was rather conventional.

As guardianships become increasingly controversial here in Texas and across the U.S., similar stories are surfacing out of the United Kingdom.

Agassi admits use of crystal meth AP Video Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009 01:29AM EDT Eight-time Grand Slam winner says he used substance in 1997 and then lied to tennis authorities when he failed a drugs test More in Sports Fans flock to Jackson film 01:47 Fans flock to Jackson film AP Video Wednesday, Oct.

Living on less than you expected in retirement? That's no reason to skip estate planning.