Estate planning is part of comprehensive financial planning. It includes making a will. If you don’t make a will before your death, you will die intestate. In that case, your assets will be ...

Think estate planning can wait? Here’s the thing: putting off or delaying estate planning can leave your loved ones in a difficult position. Among the issues is passing away without a will, one of ...

A will is a document or declaration that ensures your real estate and other assets are legally transferred and distributed among your heirs according to your wishes after you pass away. As the name ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Ebony Howard is a certified public accountant and a QuickBooks ProAdvisor tax expert. She ...

Succession is a very sensitive and complex issue in a multi-diverse society and culture such as ours. A uniform system of inheritance (the legacy of the Portuguese) is only present in the state of Goa ...

We are assuming that your father was a Hindu, that he was governed by Hindu laws and that the property is coparcenary property. Since no Will was made by your father, the inheritance of the house is ...

This is quite a peculiar problem that is quite common in Hindu families wherein the shares of the family-run business is held by all family members. Since your estranged brother runs a competing ...