Janet Kidd Stewart

When their son, Nathan, was badly injured in a 2004 car accident, Nancy and Mike Kauzlarich were fortunate enough to have medical insurance that paid most of the $250,000 hospital...

Conventional wisdom holds that couples who marry later in life will have more money conflicts. Each may have substantial assets and several heirs, as well as ingrained spending habits and...

Mary Hudson has some advice for couples thinking about retiring together: Don't. Although that may go against the romantic notion of marriage and spending your golden years together, people like...

More and more, financial advisers are specializing. Some target the wealthy. Others concentrate on new retirees. Some drill down even further, tailoring their practices to specific professions, from airline pilots...

Kelin Gersick and his two brothers grew up amid a small family business that sold children's clothing. None of the three children ever had designs on retail, however, and their...

A funny thing happened to about 7 million Americans less than two years after retiring, a new study shows: They bounced back to the workforce. Funnier still--as in the strange...

Searching for a New Year's resolution that stirs your soul? Try aligning your money and your values more closely in 2006. "The research is clear that after a certain point,...

Four buckets and a funeral changed my financial life in 2005. In the year's first Value Judgments column I shared a plan we were trying at my house to pour...

There are two weeks left in the crunch time for philanthropy. Do you have a game plan? Of the roughly $250 billion annually that charities receive from U.S. individual and...

If the McCue family were a corporation, it would need a turnaround artist. Crushed under a pile of credit card debt and student loans, they're losing sight of their goal...