Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Marguerita is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP), Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor ...

The grieving process is always challenging. But for many families, the slow legal process of distributing an inheritance compounds emotional pain with financial uncertainty. When pressing needs for ...

Sohini Ramachandran is a professor of biology, data science, and computer science at Brown University. C. Brandon Ogbunu is ...

If you're inheriting an IRA, you might think you can let that money sit and grow until you need it. But there are rules ...

This week's Java roundup for November 3rd, 2025, features news highlighting: a new Jakarta AI specification; the fourteenth ...

Despite the title of this article, this is not a braindump in the traditional sense. You see, I don’t believe in cheating. Traditionally, the term “braindump” referred to someone taking an exam, ...

Tim and Dina are joined by Willful co-founder Erin Bury to learn about inheritances bust some myths surrounding them.

Ask someone where outer space is, and they’ll probably point at the sky. It’s up, right? Simple. Except, no one really knows where “air space” ends and “outer space” begins. That might sound trivial, ...

My parent recently passed away before retiring. I have inherited a Roth IRA account that must be paid out within 10 years. This is more money than I can conceive of. It’s 30 percent more than I would ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Chip Stapleton is a Series 7 and Series 66 license holder, CFA Level 1 exam holder, and ...

My father passed away in July 2024. I was not named in his will. I could not imagine how sneaky, dishonest and greedy a person my sister, the executor of his will, turned out to be regarding the ...