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The Wall Street Journal Family Finances Dividing assets in a divorce is hard enough without trying to sell a home, business or stock portfolio in a down market. Here's how to ease the financial pain.
Nearly a third of U.S. households have no life-insurance policies, due to a combination of the financial pressures, the high cost of some policies and the hardball tactics used by some agents.
A growing number of families are compensating relatives who serve as caregivers to elders.
The bureau should zero in on a few specific things—including credit reports and student loans—if it wants to make a splash right away.
For many retirees already collecting benefits, a strategy known as a "Social Security reset" could sharply increase their monthly income.
Jeff Opdyke discusses how to balance spending time between two children.
Millions of families of wartime veterans are failing to take advantage of a little-known benefit that could help pay for long-term care.
For just a few hundred dollars, you can buy a policy that will reimburse your tuition and on-campus housing costs if your child has to withdraw for medical reasons. But the likelihood that you actually will need it is pretty slim.
The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 4.42% for the week ended Aug. 19, the lowest since Freddie Mac started tracking the rate in 1971.
Mortgage refinancings jumped in the past week, which advanced 17% to a high since May of last year. Meanwhile, longer-dated Treasurys rose in trading as concern about the global economic outlook spurred demand for what are considered safe assets.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac work to push bad loans to originators, and lenders are fighting back. In the cross-hairs: Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and others.
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In his final column, our in-house miser reflects on drinking the free coffee, even when it makes your lips fall off—and other lessons.
If just starting out, you may think you don't have options for getting ahead financially in this economy -- but you do. In this adaptation from WSJ reporter Karen Blumenthal's new book, here are strategies for financial security.
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