Inheritance

Providing enough resources for your children while, at the same time, taking care of your own financial future can be a difficult balancing act. And while many parents would like to leave an inheritance, this might not always be feasible,…

Inheritance tax receipts are on course to increase to a new record this financial year, as early data indicates takings will surpass official forecasts.HM Revenue & Customs published figures on Tuesday which showed the amount…

Ilyce Glink and Samuel J. Tamkin, Tribune Content Agency Q: I purchased a house with my married son several years ago for him to live in. My husband and I gave him the money for the down payment. Only…

Securing your financial security is a colossal task. People are prioritizing the safety of their funds as inflation rises and federal interest rates seem to fluctuate daily. It’s a to-do that doesn’t only affect yourself — it…

Transferring the nuclear genome from one egg into the cytoplasm of a donor egg is a strategy to enable women carrying mutations in their mitochondrial DNA to have healthy babies. A new study from Wei Shang of Chinese PLA General Hospital,…

Ilyce Glink and Samuel J. Tamkin, Tribune Content Agency Q: I live with my grandmother and uncle. When she passes away, my uncle told me that he is going to inherit the house. He says he wants to put it…

Ilyce Glink and Samuel J. Tamkin, Tribune Content Agency Q: My mom recently passed away. She was 91. We sold her condo this year while she was still alive. We put the proceeds from the sale in an…

By Srishti Narain The idea that Partition needs to be studied from the perspective of the people who experienced it as opposed to macro official narratives is not something new; it has been in currency since the turn to oral history in…

The finalisation of a deceased estate is in itself a time consuming and frustrating process for South Africans. Further complexity and exasperation is caused when one of the heirs is an expatriate. When inheriting from an SA source and you…

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, the de-facto head in Israel of the Lithuanian branch of ultra-Orthodox Judaism, who died last month, was considered by many as the greatest rabbinical scholar of his generation. His funeral was one…