Beyond the tax implications, you need to make a smart plan for how to make the money last. An often cited statistic from a 20 ...
This is the situation that Cleo, 36, is faced with after her mother passed away suddenly, and she has been left as sole ...
DEAR ANNIE: My mother has always been a challenging person -- very critical and negative -- but it has gotten worse since my father passed in 2019. I have an older brother who abused me since ...
Dear Eric: My mother is 90, and I am 63. Years ago, I moved 800 miles away for college. Since then, I have visited my hometown at least once a year. We talk on the phone weekly or biweekly. Related ...
I read your recent letter concerning the 84-year-old man who is leaving his estate to his 48-year-old wife, thereby cutting his two sons out of this inheritance. My family has the opposite problem: In ...
Dear Eric: My 78-year-old mother is a very kind and generous person; however, she goes through life looking through a lens of negativity. Whatever can go wrong will go wrong in her eyes. She ...
"I’ve asked her, gently, to stop making comments about my appearance, but she just laughs and says she’s 'trying to help.'" ...
A young reader variously subjected to cruel words and the silent treatment is reaching the end of her rope with her mother, who has portrayed her daughter’s coming out as deceit. By Philip Galanes I ...
Dear Annie: My mom, stepfather, and younger half-brother live in another state. My father died when I was young, and my mother remarried and had my brother. At 17, I moved out and have been mostly out ...