Picture a surviving spouse, days after burying her husband, sitting at the kitchen table with a stack of bills. The funeral ...

A woman in her sixties has not spoken to her ex-husband in 20 or 30 years. He remarried, moved away, and contact was lost.

The Social Security Administration sends payments out to over 71 million Americans. Roughly 8% of them receive survivor benefits. Here’s how they work.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Cicely Jones simplifies financial concepts for young professionals. I recently caught up with a widow who had this bright and ...

The first instinct of a surviving spouse is often to act fast. The advisor's job is to pump the brakes and hold the course ...

One of the most painful, gut-wrenching days many of us will ever face is the one in which our spouse or significant other passes. Unfortunately, none of us are promised tomorrow—life does not play ...

Then we will launch right into a discussion of what happens legally when your spouse dies. Your marriage terminates. Your community property ceases to exist because only spouses can own community ...

Marriage is supposed to be “until death do us part,” but after one spouse dies, is it possible for a court to declare a marriage invalid (annulled)? It can happen, as a Nebraska widower recently ...

Clients who just lost their spouse probably aren’t thinking about taxes. But it's something that should be on the minds of their advisors. “Advisory support in the months that follow can be critical ...

Occasionally, there is a story in the news about an elderly couple that has been married for over 60 years who die simultaneously hand in hand. It always melts my heart when I hear about that, the ...