Janet Kidd Stewart

Business owner John Wagner is thinking hard about establishing health savings accounts for himself and the roughly 50 workers for whom he provides health insurance. The accounts, created in 2003...

Last year, Sunil Ahuja divorced, sold his home and got a fledgling life-coaching business off the ground after spending most of his career in engineering. Facing this tidal wave of...

In the latest personal finance tell-all, author Judith Levine not only bares her salary (about $45,000 a year), but also the emotional arithmetic behind her decisions about money: Q-tips are...

Raise the subject of lending money to relatives and you often hear groans about slacker in-laws who never made good on the money they borrowed to cover gambling losses. But...

Like other thirtysomethings navigating their careers today, Jason Erkes is no stranger to job volatility. Early in his career, his television-producing job was eliminated. Then he dabbled in a few...

Women have narrowed the wage gap but are stuck in what some consider a time warp when it comes to money, some new evidence suggests. Looking at what makes for...

Don't blame Americans' negative savings rate on Marie Anderson. Despite supporting a family of four on her $18,000-a-year job, the longtime Chicago resident has socked away $900 since April. "I'm...

When Christine and Andrew Brodigan of Seattle divorced five years ago, they weren't typical candidates for a quick and cheap split. They had a child, a home and a 10-year...

You're in love and run a household together, but you're not married. And despite a smattering of state legislation aimed at leveling the benefits field, the laws governing your blended...

When the twentysomething couple came to her for premarital financial counseling, financial planner Karin Maloney Stifler didn't think they stood a very good chance of creating a successful marriage. They...