When John Tocher died of blood cancer, his family expected grief and paperwork — not a financial limbo that would leave his daughter unable to get out of bed. Months later, a six-figure bank draft ...

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in South Florida, originally from Southeast Asia and introduced through the pet trade. The non-venomous constrictors disrupt the ecosystem by preying on native ...

My husband and I have been together for 25 years. We have two children, a son and a daughter, and we are looking forward to upgrading from our current home. We're in our 50s and will probably get $1 ...

Science is rarely straightforward. Many times, scientists embark on a study looking for evidence for a particular hypothesis, and in the process, they come across something totally unexpected and ...

I have been managing my widowed mother’s finances for the past few years. She is 90 years old and her trust consists of a home, an IRA that I am trying to gradually wind down over the next five years, ...

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 biggest sting in the proposed new tax on higher superannuation balances is not in the headline top tax rate of 40 per cent, it’s in how it makes super’s existing “death tax” so much more painful ...