Parents who have spent a lifetime saving often want a simple way to help a daughter pay bills, avoid court delays, and ...

Some financial assets, like bank accounts and retirement portfolios, are designed to pass from one person to another. This designated recipient is known as a “beneficiary,” meaning that you have named ...

Dear Quentin, I have a very modest sum in my CD, checking, and savings accounts (approximately $150,000). I have set up a ...

Nobody likes thinking of the inevitable — death, the end of the road, or the big sleep. Yet estate planning, especially having clear beneficiaries listed for every account, is a crucial part of any ...

French athlete and former Mountain Bike champion Aurelien Fontenoy makes a bungee jump on his bike from the Artuby bridge, the highest bridge in Europe with 182 m of height, near Comps-sur-Artuby on ...

DALLAS — A will is one of those things that a lot of us put off as long as possible. All that paperwork, those details, the intimidating legalese, and thinking about dying –they’re all good reasons to ...

Beneficiary designations aren't always the wrong choice, but they’re certainly not a one-size-fits-all option.