What if a husband and wife own a home together that increases in value by $500,000. When one spouse dies and the other owns the property themselves, do they receive a step-up in basis? Or do they only ...

The $255 one-time benefit that Social Security pays when someone dies can only be paid to a spouse who was living in the same household with the deceased at the time of death. This also applies if the ...

When Audrey J. Saabye was 10 years old she dreamed of her future husband. She found him six years later and imagined celebrating their 75th wedding anniversary, but it wasn’t to be. After 38 years, ...

Dear Eric: My spouse recently died, leaving me with a substantial financial estate. Now I have to decide what to do with it. We had no children (we were a male couple). My spouse had three younger ...

The death of a spouse can turn a person’s world upside down. How to cope with a spouse’s death The pain doesn’t get easier even if your partner had been sick and you had been expecting them to pass.

In their own words, women speak about the hardest times after the death of their husband.

Andrea Gibson's terminal health journey is the focus of 'Come See Me in the Good Light,' a new documentary about living — not ...

Workers and spouses become eligible for Social Security retirement benefits at age 62, but widow(er)s are eligible for survivors' benefits at age 60. Survivors' benefits let widow(er)s inherit their ...