Losing a spouse brings immense emotional weight and, often, unexpected financial decisions. For many surviving spouses, one of the most complicated and confusing tasks is deciding what to do with the ...

What if a husband and wife own a home together that increases in value by $500,000. When one spouse dies and the other owns the property themselves, do they receive a step-up in basis? Or do they only ...

Even as the signals of approaching dementia became impossible to ignore, Joseph Drolet dreaded the prospect of moving his partner into a long-term care facility. Drolet, 79, and his beloved Rebecca, ...

Dear Mr. Premack: My wife is not on the deed for our house. I would like for her to be joint on the deed. This way if I pass away she has no problem? We are still paying on our home the mortgage is in ...

JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. – Monday mornings at 4 at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, before service members start their weekday physical training, Army spouse Lupe Najarro is busy baking at home. “It’s ...

FORT JOHNSON, La. — Normally, a home tour and a vendor’s market aren’t two things you think of putting together. But in the case of the Fort Johnson Corvias Property Management Open House Home Tour ...

The Eighth Circuit held that a taxpayer’s spouse lacked a present property interest in the taxpayer’s home, so she was not entitled to receive a portion of the sales proceeds in a forced sale action ...