Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, coordinated, and directed various community and nonprofit organizations. She has conducted in-depth research on social and economic issues ...

The grieving process is always challenging. But for many families, the slow legal process of distributing an inheritance compounds emotional pain with financial uncertainty. When pressing needs for ...

How you manage an inheritance can change your life. We’ve all heard stories about individuals who passed away quietly after a life of frugality, keeping their estate plan a secret and leaving a ...

Mumbai: A big revelation has now been made in the Powai hostage case, in which 17 children were held captive in a dance studio. The accused, Rohit Arya, had claimed that he had not received ₹2 crore ...

Mount Sumbing stands high above Central Java’s countryside, where volcanic soil supports generations of stepped farming traditions. Catanduanes under Signal No. 4 as Uwan intensifies This one decision ...

Unless you’re reading this from the deck of your superyacht, you probably don’t have to worry about federal estate taxes. In 2025, only estates worth $13.99 million or more ($27.98 million or more for ...

My father passed away in July 2024. I was not named in his will. I could not imagine how sneaky, dishonest and greedy a person my sister, the executor of his will, turned out to be regarding the ...

I’m aware that property acquired during a marriage is generally considered marital property. However, I believe you noted in a recent column that this is also true of a house purchased during a ...

Speakers at a roundtable yesterday urged all political parties to include clear commitments in their election manifestos to ensure women’s equal rights in family inheritance, land ownership, ...