Quick Read A 3.9% to 4% withdrawal rate on $3.9M generates $156,000 per year in sustainable retirement income—any gifting ...

America’s adult children say they are ready to manage that inheritance now. Their parents might disagree. A report from Fidelity Investments sheds new light on an estate-planning generation gap. Aging ...

Everyone has an opinion about what a "good parent" does with their money. Leave it all to the kids, the old-timers say. Build ...

Adult children don’t like to think of themselves as “kids.” Many have careers, mortgages, families and responsibilities of their own. But when it comes to money, especially an inheritance, a ...

A $250,000 inheritance creates a marital standoff: one spouse wants a vacation property, the other wants to fund the kids’ ...

If leaving a legacy for your children is important to you, there are a few key things to get across before you go.

Three quarters of multi-millionnaire parents are worried large inheritances will be bad for their children, so are instead donating large chunks to charity, according to new research. A study of ...

DEAR ERIC: My husband and I just turned 80. We are in good health but began talking about estate planning. We each have two children from previous marriages, and at first this was an easy fix. After ...

The New York Times 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 and how their ...