Kimberlee Leonard has 22 years of experience as a freelance writer. Her work has been featured on US News and World Report, Business.com and Fit Small Business. She brings practical experience as a ...

Q: Both my wife and I have been married before. We each have our own biological children and we brought our own assets, including financial accounts, to our marriage. We agree that we want to keep all ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Q. Since Idaho is a community property state, if my husband dies, do I automatically inherit all of our property or would his children from his first marriage inherit his half of everything? A.

No one dies in this column. There will be no talk of grieving widows or unhappy orphans. Instead, this column will be devoted to a lighthearted topic: deeds and why their wording matters. Texas, you ...

Property division in a divorce depends on whether the state follows community property or common law rules. In community property states, most assets acquired during the marriage belong equally to ...

While California’s marital property system is often discussed in the context of divorce, the distinctions between community property and separate property are also relevant on the death of a married ...

Q. I’m writing as a follow-up to your last column. Since Idaho is a community property state, if my husband dies, do I automatically inherit all of our property or would his children from his first ...

Unknown to many Floridians, Florida enacted the Community Property Trust Act which went into effect on July 1, 2021, and established the ability to convert non-community property into community ...