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For many people who feel closer to friends than family, estate planning can require special considerations. I turn 43 in May. In recent years, I've taken over managing my mother's [...]

When one sibling becomes the trustee, they take on the responsibility of settling the estate, including whatever debts remain. Q: My sister is the trustee for my mother's estate, which [...]

The United Arab Emirates is abolishing lenient sentences for so-called honor killings, loosening alcohol restrictions and lessening the sway of Islamic law over foreigners. BEIRUT, Lebanon -- The United Arab [...]

We recently wrote about how retirement is different if you don't have children. But we also asked readers to tell us if they are leaving an inheritance for their children [...]

LONDON -- It was a case that riveted the world: In 1974, a dashing British aristocrat and army officer, known for his prowess at backgammon and bridge and his fondness [...]

With flawless etiquette, every year from 1977 to 2010, Katherine Hall Friedman sent a Christmas card to the home of her distant relative Huguette Clark, a copper heiress whose father [...]

THE number of children conceived through in vitro fertilization has doubled over the last decade. The technology that has made these children possible has also challenged inheritance laws, especially in [...]

LONDON -- Viewers of ''Downton Abbey'' spotted the family-destroying potential of primogeniture in the first episode, when the Titanic sank and Lord Grantham, father of three daughters, was left with [...]

An Inheritance, With Restrictions Q My mother inherited a co-op in Manhattan, but the co-op board will not give its approval for the shares to be transferred into her name. [...]

An Inheritance and a Co-op Board QMy elderly mother was remarried a couple of years ago to a man who owned a co-op in Manhattan. He recently died, and she [...]

THE new tax law signed by President Obama in December gives many people a reason to revise their estate plans. In the process, some will try to avoid probate. Others [...]

A long lost manuscript, one of the most important in the history of modern biology, has resurfaced as part of a dispute over its ownership. The manuscript is the account [...]

The Maine Supreme Court on Thursday upheld an adult same-sex adoption by a descendant of the founder of I.B.M., with a share of the multimillion-dollar fortune at stake. The ruling […]

ADULT adoptions, an established though infrequently used financial planning tool, have attracted increased attention as a way for gay and lesbian couples to secure an inheritance. It is not necessary […]

EACH family foundation is unique. But sooner or later, all face succession issues. Sometimes too many heirs are vying for a seat on the board, sometimes too few. Other rifts […]

The adoption of a woman by her lesbian partner 17 years ago in Maine has been annulled, and the woman has filed an appeal in the State Supreme Court, according […]

A judge presiding in settlement talks in the dispute over Brooke Astor's estate decided yesterday to choose representatives from each side as temporary administrators of the estate. The compromise decision […]

Settlement talks in the dispute over the estate of the philanthropist Brooke Astor appear to have come to a halt, two people who have been briefed on the situation said […]

A court in Johannesburg ruled that two young girls can inherit their father's property because the traditional custom that the nearest and oldest male relative takes precedence if there is […]

IN the ethical quagmire of assisted reproduction, many of the toughest questions eventually land in court: Who has the right to frozen embryos, frozen eggs, frozen sperm? Whose name should […]