Can your spouse inherit your credit card debt?

Unpaid credit card debt is generally handled through the estate, but there are exceptions to that rule.  mesh cube/Getty Images Financial planning conversations tend to focus heavily on topics like building wealth, growing and protecting your retirement savings and making sure loved ones are taken care of financially after you die. What those discussions don’t … Read more

“Lady Gucci” Patrizia Reggiani, who had ex-husband and fashion heir murdered, could inherit a $23 million fortune

Rome — Patrizia Reggiani — better known as “Lady Gucci,” the infamous orchestrator of her ex-husband Maurizio Gucci’s assassination — could soon be handed a massive inheritance despite her murder conviction, following a court ruling that could give Reggiani control of her late mother’s 20 million euro (just shy of $23 million) fortune. Reggiani served … Read more

What to do if you inherit gold or other precious metals

Inheriting gold or other precious metals is genuinely different from inheriting cash or a brokerage account. Wirestock/Getty Images If you inherit physical gold, there’s a good chance that, unless you already invest in precious metals, you aren’t quite sure what to do with it. It might arrive in the form of a few gold coins … Read more