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Inheritance Funding reports that an inheritance advance can help pay off debt, but consider costs, emergencies, and potential ...

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‘I’d hate to turn her over to the state’: My mother, who has dementia, refuses to be put in a facility. What can we do?

Wealthy Americans are scrambling to change their estate plans before year-end, worried that Democrat Joe Biden will win the U.S. presidential election and raise taxes, say financial advisers to the ...

A spendthrift clause in an estate plan can protect an inheritance from a financially irresponsible child's debts and poor ...

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