Marital trusts are a common estate-planning tool, but they depend heavily on who controls the money and how closely that ...

Upwards of 3 million people die every year in the United States. As a funeral director who heads a university mortuary science program, I can tell you that while each individual’s life experiences are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When a life ends, those who remain deal with the body. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Upwards of 3 million people die every year ...

When you pass away, your mortgage does not disappear — the lender still needs to be repaid. If there is a will, mortgage responsibility will typically fall to the beneficiary of the home. When a ...

Social Security survivors benefits can be an important source of financial stability after your partner passes away.

Most debt doesn’t pass directly to heirs, but it doesn’t always disappear either. What happens after death depends on your ...

When a veteran dies, the federal system begins a tightly scripted sequence of notifications, record reviews, benefits processing, and decisions about remains and burial. Every step relies on one ...

A borrower’s passing does not automatically erase the loan, but the responsibility to repay depends on the structure of the ...

Experts explain what happens to your pension when you die - Some pensions aren’t inheritable, but others are ...

The Cuyahoga County jail has been called one of the worst jails in America, a title it earned following a scathing investigation by the U.S. Marshals Service amid a rash of deaths seven years ago. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From left, Jenny Slate (as Nikki), Sissy Spacek (as Gail) and Michelle Williams (as Molly) in the FX series Dying for ...