In the Declaration of Independence, a chief complaint was that King George III “affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.” George Washington himself worried about ...

The Supreme Court has upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order ...

After four decades in finance as a commercial lender, 60-year-old “Matt” is loving every moment of retirement with his wife ...

A rising lawyer's fight over a disputed Jamaican inheritance spirals into a chilling mystery when she discovers the haunted ...

This video explains the stages of mitosis, contrasts them with meiosis and the creation of haploid gametes, and concludes by showing how gametes fuse during fertilisation to form a zygote.

A major mouse study found that some inherited traits are passed down through epigenetic changes that break the classic rules of genetics. Researchers discovered hundreds of cases where these chemical ...

Ed Lyon, a pioneering urologist at the University of Chicago, wanted his retirement account to go to his 36 grandchildren. Seven years after his death, his heirs are still fighting to make that happen ...

Maryland holds a unique position in the American tax structure as the only state in the U.S. that levies both an estate tax and an additional inheritance tax.. For residents and their heirs, this dual ...

Inheritance tax is the gift that keeps on giving to the chancellor but for families mourning loved ones it can be a complicated minefield to get right at an already difficult time, with an avalanche ...

The widow and two daughters of LG’s former chairman sought to invalidate an inheritance agreement, claiming they were deceived into forfeiting their rightful inheritance. By Daisuke Wakabayashi and ...

America’s adult children say they are ready to manage that inheritance now. Their parents might disagree. A report from Fidelity Investments sheds new light on an estate-planning generation gap. Aging ...