A 73-year-old husband and 70-year-old wife sitting on $4.2 million in retirement and brokerage assets generally assume the ...

The scenario looks routine on paper. Husband, 68, sitting on a $1.6 million traditional 401(k). Wife, 66, with another ...

A 66-year-old woman was married for 14 years, divorced nearly two decades ago, and never remarried. Her career after the kids ...

Scott Pelley was emotional about his firing from "60 Minutes," comparing it to the death of a spouse.

The death of a spouse can be devastating. Whether you were just married or spent decades together, losing your life partner leaves a hole like no other. It also leaves a long list of tasks to ...

In our weekly legal column, the Leader, with the expert advice of the team at GHP Legal, sets out to answer some of your problems. Today's question is answered by Partner Ulia ...

Losing a spouse can upend nearly every part of daily life, from household routines to long-term financial plans. But amid grief, paperwork, and difficult decisions, many surviving spouses are ...

The day after her husband's funeral in spring 2024, Carol kept filing taxes the way she and her husband always had. Year of death: married filing jointly. Year one and year two, she still qualified as ...

The loss of a spouse or life partner can trigger intense emotional distress that affects multiple systems within the body.

A surviving spouse filing single in year three after a spouse’s death faces a sudden tax cliff because single-filer brackets are roughly half the width of married-filing-jointly brackets, causing the ...

The spouse of a man who died last year at the Boone County Jail has sued the jail’s medical provider Wednesday in federal ...

The final 1040 could be just the beginning. What estate executors and survivors need to know about retirement accounts, refunds, back taxes, liens and Form 1041.