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In Connecticut, the state puts an “invisible lien” on your house when your spouse passes away (so-called because the state never notifies the family that they are doing this). Even if the surviving ...

While Grim Reaper guides you to the afterlife, Uncle Sam will be escorting your heirs to the IRS. Death can be a tax-triggering event, with two in particular you should be aware of: the estate tax and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Baltimore Register of Wills office, located inside the Elijah E. Cummings Courthouse in downtown Baltimore. (Photo by ...

H. Amos Goodall, Jr., shareholder, Goodall & Yurchak, PC, State College, Penn. For the fourth time in as many years, the House of Representatives voted on April 13 to repeal the federal estate tax. If ...

Most of us hate taxes, but maybe none so much as Harvey Schein, a top entertainment executive who died at 80, having been greatly agitated by the notion of owing money to the government after his ...

While it's not exactly fun to financially plan for dying one day, it's better than leaving your loved ones unprotected. Whether it's an inheritance or an estate, you want to leave them in the best ...

H. Amos Goodall, Jr., author of the May issue's “The ‘Death Tax’ Is a Good Thing,” is dead wrong to oppose a permanent repeal of the estate tax. For the fourth time in as many years, the House of ...