Speakers at a roundtable yesterday urged all political parties to include clear commitments in their election manifestos to ensure women’s equal rights in family inheritance, land ownership, ...

Some people like to imagine the ideal windfall: A surprise (and tax-free!) inheritance from a distant relative whom you barely remember or never met. It’s much less fun to think about navigating a ...

New research in C. elegans from scientists at Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) helps explain how changes in the parents’ lysosomes that promote longevity are transferred to their offspring.

Benjamin Franklin referred to death and taxes as "the only certainties in life." And the inheritance tax touches on both. It's a levy on money, property or other assets a person leaves to others after ...

An inheritance often is seen as a financial windfall, but there are times when people may want to consider saying thanks, but no thanks. Receiving a sizable gift, if not structured properly, can have ...

There are two entirely reasonable responses to this. One is to worry about the new inheritocracy harming society: how it could corrode incentives to work, say, or widen inequality and distort the ...

When leaving a substantial inheritance to a married adult child, how do you tell them not to commingle those funds with their spouse without it causing problems in their marriage? So far, my daughter ...