Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Matthew F. Erskine is a trusts and estates attorney. Web 3.0 promises to have a profound impact on the way everyone does ...

Use caution and learn as much as you can before making important and potentially irreversible decisions. Consumer attorney and “Today” contributor Alan Kopit offers some advice. You may have heard of ...

The first foray into retirement planning for consumers involved free retirement planning calculators such as Bankrate’s retirement calculator. It might seem simple now, but 20 years ago this was a ...

Just about anything and everything imaginable is available over the Web, so why not business planning? Why not, indeed. When Adaytum Software began offering its e.Planning 1.0, a Web-based business ...

The complexity of online trip-planning and booking is the bugaboo of the Web. Consumers generally have to calculate baggage and beverage fees on flights, then figure out how much all of those "taxes ...

You may have heard of the Internet being used to assist people in filing for divorce or declaring bankruptcy, and now another legal area where people are turning to the Web is in the preparation of an ...