Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am an RN-Attorney with significant experience in both professions. Sometimes money and the need to care for aging parents can ...

In today's Asking Eric column, R. Eric Thomas responds to someone who is conflicted about how to split a recent inheritance ...

With divorce rates at about 50 percent and climbing, it isn’t really a shocker that one in three Americans are living the ...

I first met my step-father when I was five, and my brothers were eleven and thirteen. He was not my step-father back then, of course, and would not officially marry my mother for another seven years, ...

Dear Eric: My beloved husband of 22 years is seriously ill with a poor prognosis and is concerned about leaving money to his four children from a previous marriage. When we met, “Mike” had been ...

With divorce rates at about 50 percent and climbing, it isn’t really a shocker that one in three Americans are living the stepfamily and blended family experience. So, is this new family dynamic in ...